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Recliner! Shelving? After that it depends on your taste. Some people would opt for a coffee maker. Others would go for gin on optics - or a beer-fridge.
Some might want a sound- system, if only so your familiar music drowns out the world,but yes, a coffee maker sounds good :-)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I'd love soundproofing!"Pardon?
I have a reading house. Well I suppose it is a reading world, really.I will read wherever I am sat. In the summer I like to read laying on my squishy sofa in the conservatory. In the winter, it's on the leather lounge sofa under a blanket.
I always read on my lunch break and get annoyed if someone is sat on MY chair in the break out room.
One of my reading places even has a roll of paper by the side in case I want to make notes :-)
My house needs a tardis to put all the clutter in. Even my keyboard has to fight for a flat bit on my desk. I may have had a comfy chair once - it's probably buried under that lot over there . . .
Tim wrote: "My house needs a tardis to put all the clutter in. Even my keyboard has to fight for a flat bit on my desk. I may have had a comfy chair once - it's probably buried under that lot over there . . ."I too have a deep litter filing system
What my mother in law calls an open plan filing system?As for a reading space, surely you can't go wrong with the holy trinity of chair, table, lamp?
Chair: comfy enough for the long haul, but not so comfy that you fall asleep. We're talking business class leather recliner and not church pew. A foot stool would be nice.
Lamp: Behind you, throwing just enough light over your shoulder. The light should be soft, not harsh. In old money, I'd say about 60 watts would be fine.
Table: at just the right height so that your hand falls on it without stretching. A glass of Macallan on a coaster.
Optional extras: a cat to fall asleep purring in your lap, a bowl of sinful nibbles to stop the whisky from being too wet and a door to shut to keep the rest of the world out.
Failing that, 10 square centimetres of standing space on a circle line train, jammed in between sweaty armpits.
I like your comments, Will. Living in Australia, I'd like to add the summer scenario - a chair on the patio, drying off from the last swim and a glass of bubbles!
Like it! Maybe a dog at your feet and a wide brimmed hat to keep the sun from your eyes?
Someone described their filing system as the volcano method. The papers all pile up and the ones at the bottom slide out onto the floor as a result of the weight of the papers on top of them. If they hit the floor they are no longer required and discarded.
I have a small study with bookcases, a small telly my posh speaker dock thingy, a writing desk and ONE high backed chair and a bed for Emma. I don't take visitors apart from my little granddaughters who are allowed in for pre bedtime stories when they stay over night. It's my bit of heaven and I spend many happy hours in there. I also have the walls covered with photos of all my animals past and present and my closest friends so I can look round and always see a happy memory.
I hope you will enjoy your space as much as I do mine Brendan.
One more thing NO men, messy or otherwise.
I'd love a small library room with a comfy chair and a side table to put a drink on. Alas I haven't got a spare room. I mostly read in bed before I go to sleep each night.One thing I can't have is any noise as it distracts me from reading. So radio or hi-fi is out.
I wouldn't need a lamp as I can read my Voyage in the dark. But then again if I had a library I'd have one to read all the non fiction reference books that I'd have in paper form.
If I ever won the lottery I'd move to a house where I could use a room as a library and it would probably look like one of those old fashioned gentleman's clubs. Oh, and a conservatory so I'd be surrounded by plants...my idea of heaven.
That old fashioned gentlemans club style is what I have tried to recreate Vanessa, don't think i have quite managed it though. That type of room always look peaceful and relaxing. I would love enough room to have different sections of books, dream on !
Every time I look at this thread, it reminds me of a place we stayed at on the beach in India. Kerala, it was.We hired a really crappy half falling down concrete cottage about 10 metres back from the ocean on an idyllic empty beach. There was a wicker basket hanging chair screwed into the ceiling of the porch thing in the front of the cottage. I spent a month swinging and twirling on that chair, reading and daydreaming.
Good times.
Soon I'll be moving around my room and there will be a smallish alcove in my room free to have for reading and just relaxing. I was just wondering if you have a reading area and what did you furnish it with? I may get a nice comfy chair but I have no idea what else would help create a healthy reading space.