"you might pick them up to look at once in a while"

[slemslempike]

I suppose it serves me right for reading "top tips" on home decoration, but really.

Books
A room lined in books can be a delight. Stick to hardbacks, or neat vintage paperback collections. Your selection should reflect your passions, so much so that you might pick them up to look at once in a while. Books arranged according to spine colour look close to obsessive - instead stack them horizontally in diminishing sizes, especially on a large square coffee table.

I hate whoever wrote this. "you might pick them up to look at once in a while". Imagine!

I am going to see The Audience tonight, I mustn't forget to go. I keep thinking it's Wednesday, which it isn't. (It's Thursday.) I am looking forward to it, but a bit worried that you might need to know more twentieth century British history than I do to really understand everything. (I say that like I have more knowledge of other periods. I don't.)

Comments

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Oh, for heaven's sake. What I want from an article on interior design with books is ideas on how to have a room which contains both bookcases and windows without the spines of the books fading. This is something I have never managed to get right, and somehow no-one seems to want to tell me how to do it.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

One of the things I really like about my flat is that the spare/book room doesn't get direct sunlight, and the positioning of the window means that two long walls aren't in daylight at all. This is a little dark, but much better for the books!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear! I don't mind books being thought of as decorative but not at the expense of being able to read them, and certainly not in the sense of only having books that suit an artful interior design.

You might be interested in UV film for windows.