Bookcases
Ever noticed when looking through home interiors magazines, how many lovely rooms include a wall of bookshelves? There’s something of an air of quality about shelves full of books, (not unlike the air of quality given by a lovely stone fireplace) I suppose it suggests that the occupant is educated and well read, not that any of the books in the pictures have necessarily been read by the current owner. Books are also like antiques, they look better with age, and of course many of them really are antiques.
We’re currently fitting a lovely, large, stone fireplace in the dining room of an old farmhouse in Staffordshire. The customer, at the same time, is covering a whole wall of the same room with book shelves. He wants to make his dining room have the feel of an old ‘london club’ Dark decor, stone fireplaces, serious literature, and no doubt a shelf of books hiding a fine selection of whiskey and brandy! When not used for dining, he’s got two high backed leather chairs that will sit either side of the stone fireplace, so he can warm his feet while chatting to a friend.
The whole thing is going to look fantastic, and we’ve asked if we can have some pictures of the completed room when it’s all done. We’ve almost finished our stone work, but it’ll be another couple of months before his cabinet makers have completed his book cases.