Floor to Ceiling Library Love

Although we can't all have bookshelves like these, built-in bookshelves are actually something you can make if you are are a do-it-yourselfer... or have a dad like mine :) He's helping us build some floor to ceiling bookcases for one room. They are twelve feet high and twenty feet wide, which is quite large, so when I went to the local home center to get wood and told them it was for a bookcase they thought I was mistaken when I said I needed 374 feet. They thought I meant 374 inches. I realize I'm a girl, but I think I do know a foot from an inch! Anyway, I love these images of these floor to ceiling bookcases. Some are modern and funky, some are more traditional. I love them all. Its a bibliophile's dream...

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them–Arnold Lobel

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

- Henry David Thoreau

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
- Norman Cousins

“The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not
content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied
passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.”
Plato

 "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books."
 --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't know if these are bookcases or if it is a closet, but its so funky.

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 "Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book."
--Frank Dempster Sherman

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”

–Frederick Douglass

This wall is both beautiful and practical!

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

These funky bookcases are crazy. It's like Alice through the looking glass.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. – Cicero

The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you’ll go.–Dr. Seuss

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur Schopenhauer

These bookshelves are a piece of art in and of themselves.

So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.–Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

What 'style' bookcase are you? What's your favorite?

Gone to Heaven...

Jorge Luis Borges once said 'I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library'. I agree. I LOVE libraries and the ones below are AMAZING. I stumbled upon these at Curious Expeditions, and I just had to post just a few of them because they are just so stunning.