>>305170
Does it have a steam punk computer?

Shit. I'm no interior designer.

>>305178

YOU SHAME YOUR UNCLE

>a late uncle you didn't know you had.
>he admired your literary passions
I refuse to allow suspension of disbelief on the fact the uncle knows my literary passions, but I do not know of his existence

>>305205
He was a ninja.

This is already an archived thread.

This is the setup for a sidequest in Oblivion.

Library of Congress but bigger, grander and with greater variety and more valued stock.

>>305205

Rich Uncle Paperbacks worked for the C.I.A.

>>305215

IT IS NOT YOU FAGGOT

Honestly I prefer the feel of Neil Gaiman's library to the more classic feel of OP's pic. It feels more homey and comfortable.

More Pics here:
http://blog.shelfari.com/my_weblog/2009/09/neil.html

Ever since I was little, I wanted an overstuffed armchair to read books in.

Dark, forest green, to match the carpet and the equally overstuffed loveseat, with hardwood inlay and feet carved to look like lizards. Pulled up next to a fireplace, a warm little grove in a forest of literature, flames throwing flickering shadows back into the rows of shelves around it, illuminating the night through the large bay windows on one wall and shimmering in the wrought iron balustrade of the spiral staircase up to the second floor.

Somewhere, there is a minifridge and an electric kettle, for making tea.

>>305248

But you don't quite recall where, because the fireplace nook is only one of several spots like it in the library. The second floor has a ladder leading to a loft with a skylight and your poetry collection, there's a door in the bookshelves that leads to a room filled with maps, a big antique desk is perched on a dais in a circle of reference shelves. The windows are open, and the smell of a breezy spring night wafts through the place and blends with the smell of old paper.

I don't see what's great about this. It seems like it's a waste to own so many books when you can get them from a library, or even still you're not going to be able to read so many and rally get that much out of them

I'd put up a mcdonalds. And I'd have like 300 books that I want to read at the moment, and it'd probably take me years to get through whatever minimal proportion of them I end up wanting to read when the time came

>>305247
I think that cats dead now

>>305247

Same here. The most important thing is how comfortable it is to read in.

>>305272

Yeah, it is a bit of a waste, and yeah it is selfish, but there is nothing in the world quite like the feeling of one's own library. It's more about aesthetics, for the moment.

I don't go near that fucking place, nothing good ever came from a "Rich relative you did not know you had". Seriously read some mystery books i'm pretty sure you'd get killed.

>>305248
ugh. At the risk of sounding like a complete homosexual, please consult an interior decorator. Good god.

>>305295

The hell is wrong with that?

>>305325
You want your forest green chair the same color as your carpet? That's disgusting and now my brain is all full of fuck just thinking about it.

>>305337

Jesus christ what even was I thinking it should totally be puce.

I LIKE green. And dark wood paneling on the walls. YEAH I FUCKING WENT THERE

>>305291
no I can see what you're saying. Aside from the books argument, I really don't feel that this would be fun for me. I'd feel sort of phony. It's hard to describe. I'd be fine with a lavish house, car, etc., but library, I don't know. I'd really like a nice office with only so much book shelf space for important relevant books... and have the rest in another part of the house, like a closet or spare room, or have them in storage.

>>305269

dear balls.

you are a master, and to be commended my friend.

It'd be a lot like OP's pic, but with better chairs. And with a secret room.

>>305348
Sweet Jesus that's baroque. To each their own. *shudder*

I move that any library with chairs that you do not sink a foot into is not a real library.

God dammit where do you even get one of those.

Glass roof. Cover every wall with bookshelves floor to ceiling. I like the two-story deal in OP's pic, especially the staircase. There's a house in a Marquez novel that has a spiral staircase salvaged from a shipwreck. I always thought that was awesome.

Dark wood, overstuffed leather chairs, lamps behind the chairs, good heating. I have cats, so vases with peacock feathers in the corners are sadly out.

No, no, no.
It's supposed to be that he left you everything on the condition that you spend a night in the haunted library.
Jesus Christ, do it right, people.