Create your own library

• Shelving ideas - living with books
• Build shelving under the stairs
• Display your books like art
• Create your own library
• Use a bookcase as a room divider
• Install tailor-made shelves
• Create compact shelving
• Colour block your books

Take bookcases as high and wide as possible to maximise space and create an impressive-looking reading corner.

‘Walls lined with books have a richness of texture and colour, as well as being wonderful insulation,' says Interior Designer John Stefanidis. ‘Shelving can also be used to correct less-than-perfect proportions, and books on shelves to the side and over the tops of doors or arches always look good.'

Get the look: Domus could supply and fit shelving like this. Get a bookcase ladder from furnitureatwork.co.uk.

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