Fresh Home Friday: A Book Nook

I have wanted a library in my house, pretty much since I saw Beauty and the Beast. I just love how incredible it feels to walk into a room full of books and hunger to devour each one. Evelyn and I went on a walk to our local library the other day and I just get giddy walking inside. It has that musty book smell that is somehow so euphoric and there is just shelf after shelf of possibilities.

I love to walk down each aisle and take my time scanning each book. Being the (basically teenage) girl that I am, I am drawn to bright colored covers with funky fonts. Whoever said not to judge a book by it's cover has never had the opportunity to go to the library and find something to read with anything to go on. So yes, I will choose that book whose title is in curly handwriting and is bright yellow with a fun drawing on the front. It's Summer and I want an easy-read, pool book.

But I digress. I'm pretty sure once our house is finished I may actually get my library! It won't to be up to the Beauty and the Beast par but hopefully by our final house (you know the one we live in till we die) I'll get to work my way up to an amazing library full of books and I'll be so old by that point that I'll just lie on the chaise lounge and fall asleep and dream of what might be between the covers.

I loved this Huffington Post article about Book Shelfies (a selfie with your bookshelf? yeah that's stupid) on deciding how you would organize your books.

By order of publication
Personal significance
Alphabetically
By height
Stacked
By color

And might I add an obvious one, by genre.

I think mine will go First by genre then personal significance and within that, by height. Although I have to admit that ordering them by color is really tempting.

Just look at these gorgeous libraries. Someday Jocelyn, someday.

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