How to Turn a Nook Into a Home Library
Remove all furniture, movable shelves and books from your nook., Decide on a color scheme for your nook and paint the walls or shelves., Buy book shelves if you don't have any.
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Remove all furniture
Give the area a deep cleaning with soap and water.
This can serve as preparation before you paint or as a way to protect your books from dust, sunlight or insect damage. -
Step 2: movable shelves and books from your nook.
If the rest of your house has white walls, you may choose to leave the area white.
However, some nooks benefit from having soothing colors, such as earth tones or pastels, on the walls and book shelves.
If you are renting your house or apartment, you should not paint your walls.
However, you can paint your book shelves to add color to the area.
Make sure all shelves cure for 1 to 2 weeks before you put books on them, so that wet paint doesn't ruin your collection. , Estimate how many books you will have in your library and count how many books your shelves can hold.
Not all the shelves need to be large or built in, because you can find many freestanding book shelves that allow you to stack books in tight spaces or on the walls themselves.
Make sure to choose bookshelves that either have adjustable shelf height or that have shelves of varying heights.
Many reference books are taller than normal shelves. -
Step 3: Decide on a color scheme for your nook and paint the walls or shelves.
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Step 4: Buy book shelves if you don't have any.
Detailed Guide
Give the area a deep cleaning with soap and water.
This can serve as preparation before you paint or as a way to protect your books from dust, sunlight or insect damage.
If the rest of your house has white walls, you may choose to leave the area white.
However, some nooks benefit from having soothing colors, such as earth tones or pastels, on the walls and book shelves.
If you are renting your house or apartment, you should not paint your walls.
However, you can paint your book shelves to add color to the area.
Make sure all shelves cure for 1 to 2 weeks before you put books on them, so that wet paint doesn't ruin your collection. , Estimate how many books you will have in your library and count how many books your shelves can hold.
Not all the shelves need to be large or built in, because you can find many freestanding book shelves that allow you to stack books in tight spaces or on the walls themselves.
Make sure to choose bookshelves that either have adjustable shelf height or that have shelves of varying heights.
Many reference books are taller than normal shelves.
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