/lit/ - Literature

>>13924393
>garish, distracting ceiling
>overstuffed furniture
>boomer-tier knick-knacks
>simplistic, uninspired painting
>serving plate sitting on an ottoman
>another ottoman in front of the fireplace
>fireplace is tacky, fake black marble
>audaciously warm lighting
>too many pillows
>spencers-quality hanging lantern
>mismatched furniture

1.3/10

>>13924481
Of all the things you chose to nitpick, you missed the furniture getting in the way of the bookshelves

>>13924481
I'm sure, your 600 sqf shithole you call home is way better than this one

>>13924393
A bit too staid. A nice library has some untidiness, some open books, some coffee stains. It looks unused, merely presentational, the library of someone who doesn't read but wants to impress other bougie assholes.

>>13924481
>>audaciously warm lighting
lel

With a few changes for my personal taste, it would be quite cozy and comfy.

>>13924393
>How to treat reading as a fashion accessory
Cringe

>>13924481

The chair in front of the fireplace is actually a curule chair.

>>13924500
I'm not in a wheelchair so I can reach around furniture, but I guess that's a fair point i I invite an invalid over.

>>13924508
It doesn't take much money to buy comfort. OP's image is probably fairly expensive but it's a McStudy at best.

>>13924676
What a horrid invention.

>>13924393
That ceiling insists upon itself

>>13924393
i see that hideous distracting ceiling, i leave

>>13924393

>>13924890
nah, I'd probably fall over the railing and die during a drunken or coked up reading marathon

>>13924393

>>13924393
Reminds me of the personal library of that principal in Hollaback's Soumission

>>13924393
>no desk

>>13924727
Yeah man obviously the only reason someone wouldn’t want to have to shift a couch every time they wanted a book is because they’re in a wheelchair. Did you get dropped on your head or something?

ITT: boomers.

A library should have a desk, a comfortable chair, stationery on the chair and at most 4 levels in a bookshelf. Any other extraneous shit will detract from the reading and writing experience. A personal library's supposed to be where you relax mentally, it's the only place in my house where I'll tolerate a minimalist design.
OPs picture even has a fucking sofa what, that's a lounge not a library,

>>13924393
reminds me of smoke and vomit

>>13926170
is that even e-ink? gross either way

Perfect library! I bet I can spot a Ulysses by the Greeks somewhere in the pile!

>>13924393
Perfection

Maybe without abat jours on forniture

>>13924890
>>13926662
i do like a nice bookstand

Just not enough clutter. Something more like this.

>>13927078

>>13924393
It's an eyesore.

>>13927090
you know, it bothered me too; that wasn't it at all. just not right.
this is much better.

If you were born in the 1800s maybe.
way too tacky for modern times

>>13924727
The point is about being able to see the whole shelf, not being reaching for the books

I like how a lot of authors do it. Usually just messy rooms with a ton of books

>>13924393
it's just too damn bright and colorful. would be really hard for me to concentrate. probably a flaw in me rather than the room itself. it does have a little "too much" going on and not enough humanity, though. the only thing i can really see as being human in the room is the corner of the rug being pushed up by the leg of the chair. otherwise it seems relatively unlived in. sterile and boring, a set piece for the mind, and not really a place to be absorbed in a book, but rather to be absorbed in the aesthetics of the room itself. It's not by any means ugly, and all the materials seem to be of relatively fine grade, but it lacks the splatter of humanity. needs to be smeared with one or two fingerfuls of snot, to personalize.

>>13924393
No.

>>13924481
You forgot the books are all paperback shits with awfully coloured spines.

>>13924481
>serving plate sitting on an ottoman
This triggers me the most.

>>13927325
>says no
>as an example of a better room shows yet another unused "show room"

>>13927362
It's a museum, you doofus

>>13924393

>>13927367
>home library
>posts a museum
>calls me a doofus

>>13927383
It's a home library in a museum, you retard doofus.

>>13927608
A museum is a public place, retard.

>>13927608
>he thinks people live in museums

>>13927280
>>13926152
>wheelchairfags

>>13927289
>That pepsi max
Every time

>>13924968
this is myst

>>13926170
what u reading

>>13927955
Yes.

>>13927325
the books in places like that are usually just stuff like
proceedings of the west sussex agricultural society 1839-1840

>>13927621
not if it is privately owned

>>13926170
>not having a physical library to store your hundreds of favorite books you've collected and a digital library to store the thousands or hundred thousands of e-books you've collected and pirated

fucking. millennial. scum.

>>13928536
>physical library to store your hundreds of favorite books you've collected
I'm not a fucking female booktuber.

>>13926044
gag

>>13928448
Not if you live in Europe.

>>13928737
Then it's just filled with the endless tomes of Summa Theologica, the Biblel and Britannica. Even more useless.

>>13924393
needs more windows.

>>13927325
>wanting dead romans to stare at you with empty stone eyes while you read

>>13928744
t. pleb

>>13927289
>with a ton of books
which they didn't read

>>13927325
>sagging shelves, bedsheets over couch and chair
serious?

>his private library is the size of a fucking room

ok grandpa, but your house stinks and I'm going outside to read, something you can't do
because you're in a wheelchair and have dementia

>>13928787
>sagging shelves
That's aesthetic as fuck
>bedsheets over couch and chair
It's early 20th century style

>>13928792

Who are you? Why are you in my house?

>>13928792
>being attacked by bugs and being at the mercy of the subtle fluctuations of temperature
i could go on and on about all the details of how jarring it would be to read outside, how do you do it, o brave one? how can you bear to not desperately beg for a sense deprivation chamber and a sweet goddess to come and intimate the details of the book to you in your meditative state retroactively from memory after glancing through the text, memorizing each page but not reading the words themselves so as not to spoil the tale before the cradling cavern consumes you?

>>13928796
>That's aesthetic as fuck
it's grotesque
>It's early 20th century style
and bell-bottom pants were a mid-late 20th century style

>>13928809
Staying indoors all the time is not good for your mental health, not even to mention your physical health. Sensory deprivation and just stimulation from reading might be fun at first, but in the long run you'll regret it.
So what if the wind blows and I have to put on a sweater? It makes the trees sway beautifully, and makes a wonderful noise. So what if I have to swat away a mosquito? Maybe a butterfly will sit on me next.

>>13924890
The bullshit of being able to afford that house but being trapped in NYC. Yuppie-ism is poison

>>13928856
augh
AUGH
NO
IT'S FUCKING HORRIBLE. YOU IDIOT. YOU'RE NOT EVEN ABLE TO IMMERSE IN THAT SITUATION.
you're not a fucking READER. YOU'RE A GOD DAMN SENSATION JUNKIE THAT LIKES PAPER WITH SCRIBBLES ON IT

>>13929242
going outside = happy
staying indoors = cabin fever, or worse: inceldom

>>13924393
It's too small. Where is the TV?

>>13929465
bro, you're not getting it. it's one thing to go outside for a walk or some activities with friends or to show your genitals to strangers, it's quite another thing to try to perform an act that for some requires a great deal of focus and concentration, even total isolation, to achieve. it would be counterproductive for me to try and read outside, i would quickly become frustrated and end up not reading at all.
I am far from suggesting that going outside is not a healthy or warranted act, but to suggest that the outside is a haven for reading just seems ridiculous to me.

>>13929747
Are you a zoomer? Almost no one needs total concentration and isolation to read, except maybe for Spinoza's Ethics.

>>13927325
nice, looks like a room from Au rebours

>>13929790
maybe i am a zoomer, maybe not.
i made several qualifiers, like "for some" and "for me" and "to me".
Maybe I'm just defective. still don't want to read outside.

>>13928737
west sussex, uk, is in europe

>>13924393
No.

>>13929804
des esseintes would slap your face with his silk glove for saying that

>>13926170
insecure consumerist detected

>>13929804
In fact it's the home library of Gabriele D'Annunzio, who also wrote a decadent novel very similar to À rebours

>>13924676
Calling someone out for not knowing this is just curule

>>13932015
>Gabriele D'Annunzio, who also wrote a decadent novel
you don't say

>>13932026
oh oh hoh oh hoh, carlos, you lovable scamp... you will rue the day, carlos. You will rue the day!

This is unironically my parents current library (before renovation). The pic is from the estate agent website selling the house, but they are turning it into a library.
>Two wingbacks in the place of those wingbacks
>Fireplace maintained and functional
>Horrid smaller ceiling beams covered by boarding and painted
>The weird silver wallpaper replaced by lilac paint
>All glass furniture removed
>Sofa swapped for a comfy fabric loveseat in purple
>Wall currently going up between it and the next room (from the far right of the pic to where the photographer is standing)
>That wall will have 4 or 5 in build book cases
>House rules, no phones, laptops or any electronic devices except a kindle (which I am prepared to fight in court to veto the last clause)

Rate muh folk's home library anons.

>>13932163
>Rate muh folk's home library anons.

0/10
>No books to be found
>Lights far away, bad for night reading
>Cold hardwood floor, probably smells like fungus
>Anon is wearing matrix shades reflected in the mirror and they look really cringey

>>13932163
I cannot rate a library with no visible books

>>13926170
>paying ludicrous vet fees and constant food costs when you could just pay a one time fee and get a Tamagotchi (just as good as physical pets by the way, the mind can't tell the difference) forever

>>13932206
For someone on a lit board I am surprised you cannot read.

That is a pre renovation pic. The bookshelves and books are being built where the photographer is stood running geometrically to the wooden wall.

The lights have been removed and replaced by warm lighting.

Nothing wrong with wood floors but there is a rug in there now.

Anon isn't wearing shit, those shades are the photographer for the house for the agents website.

>>13932212
Understandable. Unfortunately it is still under renovation so you'll have to use your imagination. But the reading area and set up are there. The books are going into a built in bookshelf that is around 12 to 14 feet long by 11 feet high.

>>13932228
Sounds pretty nice, I look forward to seeing it in action in a future thread

>>13924393
Kinda

>>13932230
Cheers anon I will certainly start one when they get it wrapped up.

>>13924481
>>another ottoman in front of the fireplace

>>13932224
>Rate muh folks home library
>Ok, 0/10, nobooks.
>PSYCHE, it’s not even a library yet!

Presumably, being charitable, you mean
>Rate the idea of muh parents NOT-library.
>Like, look and just visualize it maaaan.

Which is dumb enough I can confidantly say ZERO/TEN, and that your parents were born in dumpsters, your mom shat you out in a dumpster, and your spawn will crawl out in a dumpster.

>>13926123
This

>>13926170
Not every book has an ereader copy

>>13926170
>supporting Bezos vs supporting antique book stores and thrift shops

>>13927289
>hitler HITLER
yeah nice collection there, nazi

Just search «neo-classical home library» and almost anything will be better than what’s been posted.

>>13935757
>neo-classical home library

Forgive me, but I searched for 'Gothic home library' instead.

>>13935790
>gothic home library

Forgive me, but I searched for 'Bohemian home library' instead.

any one else here /cell/?

>>13935807
sorry, only /freezer/ here

>>13931622
???
People that buy books and care about presenting them are the insecure consumerists though.

>>13935807
a fellow of understanding what posted this.

>>13924393
Why would you put a clock in front of the painting? Especially at the point that is supposed to draw the viewer's attention...

>>13935580
Why do you care about supporting businesses unless you run them?
>paying for words vs not paying for words

>>13927078
This would be nice in my attic if it weren’t leaky, I’d also add a drawing and writing table

>>13936043
You'd sleep with rats and get any kind of disease due to lack of light and excess of dust

>>13927078
>Attic fire
>Die instantly

You're not ready to protect your family and survive.

https://youtu.be/m6U9T3R3EQg?t=2070

>>13929884
literally just focus harder, autist. reading outside is nice, no need to sperg out at a little wind or some bugs. being inside all the time constricts the soul

>>13936233
>being insensitive of another's handicaps
sing to me o muse of a jerk with nothing to offer

>>13936043
>>13936171
but it's not in an attic.

>>13928940
Location is of primary importance. There is a reason why mansions in bumfuck nowhere are cheap.

>>13936480
Anyone with a library that cluttered ran out of storage years ago, don't kid yourself.

>>13936651
it's in a book shop, anon.

>>13936660
No exceptions

>>13936664
it's not an attic

>>13936671
>Anyone with a library that cluttered ran out of storage years ago, don't kid yourself.
They filled this room, and the attic.

The attic is offscreen. Much like your father during your childhood.

>>13936706
it's not an attic, though

>>13936710
Show me the specific post I called that room an attic.

Protip you can't

>>13936715
but, it's not an attic

>>13936753
>he doesn't read in his attic

Automatticly retarded

>>13936771
however, it's not an attic.

>>13936780
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOU DUMDUM THE ATTIC IS A METAPHOR THERE IS NO ATTIC IT'S LIKE GODOT.

YOU KNOW GODOT, FROM THE BOOK ABOUT WAITING FOR GODOT? WELL HE'S NOT IN THAT BOOK EITHER, SPOILER ALERT FOR ALL YOU WAITING FOR GODOT FANS LIVING IN YOUR MOM'S ATTIC REEEEEEEEEEE

>>13936858
notwithstanding, an attic it is not.

>>13936871
wow anon you convinced me thanks a bunch

>>13935823
>putting your books in the fridge
ISHYGDDT

>>13936366
you fucking faggot

>>13937867
the best of you left with the last pimple you popped.

>>13932163
are you retarded?

>>13936010
I enjoy going in to antique book stores. The atmosphere is calm and pleasant and I get to meet a lot of like-minded people and get recommendations from them. My city is quickly becoming more and more sterile and I take refuge in these places.

>>13924393
OP is garish and quease inducing. Full of conspicuous symbols arranged without understanding or dexterity. Reject. Reject.

Compare the philosopher's domicile, the place of both symbolic and material quality. A marriage of virginity and filth. A home of a knowledge not merely of man.

>>13938570
based and comfypilled

>>13926170
>thank you for downloading the 77th e-edition of, "What we want you to think; make sure to delete the recent edition of obsolete propaganda."
I think I'll keep my printed library of 1st edition books that are still untainted.