Setting up a home library

Until recently, having a library at home was very prestigious, fashionable and presentable, but now, in the age of technical innovations, libraries have become unpopular. However, despite all the technical innovations, there are people who love to hold a book in their hands, who love to read and reread their favorite stories. It is for such people that we wanted to give some tips on how to set up a home library.

Ideal and optimal arrangement option

Ideally, you could allocate a whole separate room for a library, which would become a repository for your books and a place where you could hide from prying eyes and immerse yourself in reading or researching any issue. In this case, the library could also serve as a study. But in apartments it is practically impossible to allocate a separate room for a library. Therefore, we will consider other options for arranging a home library.

So, if your house or your apartment does not allow you to allocate a room for the library, then you can think about placing bookcases for books, as well as a comfortable reading chair, and all these furniture elements must be placed so that they fit harmoniously into the overall interior of the room.

The most optimal room for this purpose is the living room, but you need to consider the placement of the bookcase. Sometimes you can find a suitable place for a bookcase in the hallway. Also, a bookcase can easily fit into the interior of a bedroom. To ensure that the cabinet fits exactly into your interior, you don’t have to buy a ready-made one, but design it yourself, focusing on your interior and free space. This will also make the interior original.

Now let's talk about the size of the library

If it is large enough, then it makes sense to equip it with cabinets with doors; this will somewhat simplify the care of books and the shelves on which they will stand, since in this case much less dust will settle. If there are not so many books, then open shelves on which the entire library is located are quite suitable.

If your library consists of many books, then do not forget to organize them in order to best find what you need.

Typically, a library, in addition to a cabinet or shelves with books, also includes a small space for reading books, which can be placed nearby. You can put a small sofa or chair there and provide comfortable lighting. In most cases, the main lighting for reading books is not enough, so a bright lamp in the place where you read books will come in handy.