Garden Design has several first-rules-of-design, one of my favorites, COPY. Don't take this rule, as I did for too many years, as a crutch or not unique. Each site is unique, and, how YOU copy is unique. End of theorem? Copying is unique.
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Moving house after 3 decades I've discovered how much my library is woven through most layers of my life. New home has no library. With manly help, I helped tote my boxed library to a shed behind the house. A terrible activity. Using Garden Design principles, the hunt has been on for types of library shelves to copy in our ca. 1900 American Farmhouse architecture home.
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Nancy Lancaster, below, is my choice. A touch rustique, exactly how I Garden Design.
Until painting my house, about 5 years ago, my library looked like this, below. Chaos was organized because it evolved over decades. Once painters put things as they wished, I never again found a book easily.
When a library lover says all their books are boxed, you know what it means. A few books, for life to continue breathing at bare necessity, are in my office, below.
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Table & lamp, below, in my new office, had been in my Conservatory.
Book shelves, below, were bought for my previous office. They had been organized.
Chaos reigns. Little did I know, packing the books from my prior office, they would become my sole library. Probably for a year.
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New library will be in the central hall, totally Nancy Lancaster, with sconces added.
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Cannot wait to get the Gardening section back in order. Until then, my feathers are not quite smooth.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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Top pic, here, 2nd pic, here. Bottom pics, my office this morning.