Where do you keep your books?

[TheBeesKnee]

Mine are currently in the attic and stressing me to death as it's cold up there and I'm worried they will rot, or something.

I want to put a couple of bookcases in the living room but I'm not sure if there are any better alternatives as I'll be losing sofa space when the room is already very small.

Sadly no space for a separate library!

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Shelves above the height of the sofa and not too deep. Coffee table with shelf underneath. Bookshelf on the landing.

How wide is your hallway? Could you put bookcases along one wall of the hall, add some architrave and mouldings and make it look built in?

TwnklTwnklLittleStarfighter

No hallway, front door opens into the living room. That sounds lovely though!

Onmyright

LOVE the landing idea!

My husband bought me a kindle, as we didn't have enough space for my books and his millions of dvds.

I have a kindle and also books everywhere. I Iove my books. I have a billy bookcase at the top of the stairs and both landings. The one at the top of the stairs is fixed to the wall. There are bookcases in every room.

I have a Kindle but love physical books. I get at least 3 for Christmas each year, then I buy some throughout as well. The library was going some way to curbing my habit but that's gone out of the window this year!

Sitting room, study, hall, bedrooms, landing anywhere there is space.

Predominantly in a closed door cupboard, some in various places round the house. Only you know the space you have, and where you can fit in shelves/cupboards.

Mine are in hallway corridor.
But I’ve seen a high shelf running round the walls of a room, which could look great, and not get in the way.

We have three very tall (almost ceiling height) and narrow (14cm deep) bookcases on our landing. The shelves are fully adjustable so can take as many rows vertically as we can cram in, and the solid wood means they're really robust (unlike Ikea Billy, for example). They take just about all our books but have a very small footprint. We're not in the UK so I can't recommend the shop, but it was a 'Danish style' wood furniture place.

Bluntness100

Predominantly in a closed door cupboard, some in various places round the house. Only you know the space you have, and where you can fit in shelves/cupboards.

Yeah but it's interesting to hear what other, real, people have done. I would never have thought to put bookshelves in the hallway/landing for example, and I'm sceptical about things like Pinterest because it's all very curated and carefully arranged, which isn't necessarily reflective of real life.

We have put shelves up behind the loo in our little downstairs toilet. The shelves start just above the cistern and go right to the ceiling.

We have them everywhere!

2 bookcases in the living room, the spare bedroom has one wall with shelves the complete length (5 shelves in total). Our bedroom has a book case. There are 2 shelves in the kitchen with cookbooks on (that is not all our cookbooks).

We are in the process of decorating the hall, stairs and landing. When finished we will have shelves in the hallway and on the landing.

We have hundreds of books. I do have a kindle but prefer proper books.

Oh and I have about 8 books on the floor my side of the bed and 5 books on my bedside table

We have books everywhere, In the alcoves in the dining room and on bookshelves the whole length of one wall in the lounge. There is a bookcase in the spare bedroom too. The smallest bedroom is now a study and I am desperately trying to clear some books from there. I prefer to read on a Kindle these days but there is a pile of ‘to be read’ on the dressing table. Unbelievably, we have cleared over 1500 books in the last few years but the shelves never seem to be empty.

I live in a small house, I have my bookshelf on the landing at the top of the stairs.

Use kindle for most day to day books now. That’s really culls the number in general

Then for ‘reference’ type ones i like to put them where they are used. So cook books in the kitchen, work related go near desk etc

Children’s books account for the most tbh. They are all on wall hung shelves. Combo of IKEA spice racks and an old plate rack repurposed.

Would it make more sense to do similar so you don’t have bulky shelves in one place in small living room? A few nice ones on a wall shelf in living room facing out above sofa for example

We have two alcoves with book shelves in the sitting room. Two bookcases in DH's study, bookcase in DS's room and when his wardrobes were built I got the carpenter to build shelving on the end of it, at a right angle to the wall. DD has built in shelves on her landing and bookcases in her study. I have a couple of shelves integrated into the kitchen for my books.

We have a lot of books.

We had bookshelves built into two wide alcoves in a spare room. Plus there is now a tall free standing bookcase in the same room as more shelf space was needed.

I have a wall of bookshelves in the living room. I'd rather have one big bookcase than lots of little ones, and it's nice to have them in the room we use the most. We do have extra shelves in the bedrooms as well.

The shelves make the space between the sofa (facing the shelves out of shot in the photo) and chair quite narrow, but it's worth it. We can still walk past (just).

@unmute that is gorgeous!!;