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I person agelong dreamed of having my ain location library. Something with wall-to-wall built-in shelving. A bluish velvet chaise lounge. Shabby chic extremity tables and vibrantly colored accent pieces and a paper catalog furniture for — I don’t know. Reasons.
Instead, I person my cluttered location office. Instead of built-ins, my bookcase is simply a china furniture I snagged connected the inexpensive from HomeGoods. Instead of a chaise lounge, I person the POÄNG armchair from IKEA. The vibe is much rustic concern than shabby chic, and there’s nary a paper catalog furniture successful sight.
Still, it’s excavation and I emotion it.
No substance what you’re moving with — dedicated room abstraction oregon location bureau oregon that 1 country of your chamber — you tin inactive make a location room that feels you.
My ain aesthetic is sex-positive, embroidery-obsessed feline lady. What’s yours?
I emotion to look to Instagram for location room inspiration, and I inactive occasionally update my abstraction with caller knick-knacks and pieces of art. So if you’re looking for ideas, present are immoderate recommendations for achieving assorted bookish location room aesthetics.
Victorian-Era Mystery
This isn’t my accustomed decorative vibe, but I don’t hatred however it’s giving maine those Sherlock feels:
I could wholly spot myself hiding retired successful this location library, tucked into that leather, wingback chair, moving my hands implicit the leather-bound books arsenic I daydream of being swept into a passionate clasp by Andrew Scott’s Moriarty.
My god, bash I request to rewatch the bid now?? ::starts fanning herself::
World Traveler
I americium besides not a satellite traveler. In fact, I americium a full-on, indoorsy, reclusive homebody. But that doesn’t mean I can’t admit a look that makes radical envy your evidently adventurous life:
Or, I don’t know. Maybe it’s the cat.
Either way, each you request to recreate this look are immoderate antique question trunks. These hand-painted trunks are $292 and up, which is simply a spot affluent for my blood, but aren’t they pretty?
Top it each disconnected with a curated enactment of travel memoirs and you’re set!
Dark Academia
Fellow Book Rioter Tika Viteri already designed a dark academia speechmaking room much capably than I ever could, but still, I can’t assistance gushing implicit this location bureau with its sloping walls, its typewriter, and that skull conscionable tucked successful determination for added ambiance:
And what I emotion adjacent much is this different instrumentality connected acheronian academia, with its pinned moths and butterflies successful acheronian frames, its clump of crystals, its flipping furniture of literal curiosities (GIMME!), and its mostly witchy vibes:
And for immoderate added witchiness:
Anyway. Display cabinets abound connected Etsy, but I find that I similar the antique letterpress trays with slots successful antithetic sizes. These trays tin totes beryllium hung connected your wall. This vintage shadiness box is $68:
After you prime retired 1 of your own, you could capable it with tiny skulls, similar this rook skull ($33):
And you tin get an assortment of tiny crystals. My favourite is amethyst ($7):
But for definite cheque retired Tika’s station for much ideas.
Comic Nerd
Moving successful a completely different direction, let’s each instrumentality a infinitesimal to admit the awesomeness of this comic nerd’s imagination library:
That decoupaged java table! That effing wallpaper! Sure, you could clutter your bookshelves with a clump of Funko Pops and telephone it a time (and I surely person my stock of Funko Pops). But this crap is adjacent level.
Like, what person I adjacent been doing with my life??
I besides highly urge supporting your favourite comic artists by purchasing prints of their work, oregon possibly commissioning drawings from them erstwhile you spot them astatine your section cons.
Rainbows!
Okay, truthful possibly this aesthetic isn’t precisely bookish. But we each cognize determination are a clump of monsters retired determination organizing their books by colour alternatively of being tenable and organizing them by author’s past name. And damn if it doesn’t look good.
Like, however joyful is this?
P.S. I conscionable added each of these items to my online buying cart. Fuck.
Horror
I’m going to extremity with my favourite genre/aesthetic of each time: horror. Some examples I recovered connected Insta see this one:
Then I saw this:
Hells yes.
You tin find that 1 ($44) and different likewise creepy planters that I volition soon beryllium spending each my wealth connected astatine Mayhem Made. (Seriously, though. I can’t determine which 1 I should get, truthful I deliberation I request each of them? And I don’t adjacent do plants.)
Also, I find that nary horror-themed country tin perchance beryllium implicit without a motion to the Kraken. I got my ain tentacle-themed creation from Bryan Fyffe aft admiring his booth astatine NYCC. The 2 pieces of his I ain are this 1 of Yog-Sothoth ($65):
But there’s besides plentifulness of tentacle-themed decor to beryllium recovered connected Etsy, similar this apothecary jar ($84):
Also, avert your eyes from these jawbone stands I’ve present decided I request ($8+). I don’t privation my spouse to cognize however overmuch wealth I’m spending implicit the people of penning this post.
Feeling inspired? Hungry for more? We person plentifulness of different goodies successful our archives, similar these 12 location room ideas, these gorgeous phantasy maps, and this enactment of bookshelves.
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