Are you a person who is very keen on improving yourself? Do you always look for something that makes you a better version of yourself? And if “yes” is your answer, never miss this article.

Though we have various ways and solutions for the above-mentioned questions, the evergreen one is reading books. It may sound funny for you to accept this, as we are living in the era of technology. But Technology also has its own drawbacks. You can never supplement the experience of reading books by holding it in your hands with anything. Here are 5 simple and unique home library designs for you.

There is one quote by Robin Sharma- “Ordinary people have big TVs, Extraordinary people have big libraries”.

And going to a library and spending time there to read books may sound good, but practically sometimes it is impossible in this hurry burry life. The only way to overcome this difficulty is to have Home Library in your sweet home.

In this article, we suggest you some simple and unique ways to decorate your Home Library. Go through this article to get creative ideas for designing your home library.

Home Library Design- Whether it is Possible?

It is not a great deal as you think. Even if you have only a small amount of books, by organizing it in the right way, you can enhance your experience of reading. As you separately allocated a particular area for reading books, whenever you go there, you can inhale positive vibes there. And you will be habituated to buy more books.

When you regularly spend a particular period of time reading books in a particular place, your level of confidence slowly steadily increases day by day. Thus, not only the kitchen, bedroom and storeroom but the home library is also an inevitable part to be included in your home.

Following are the steps to incorporate home library in an organized manner.

Choose your area

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When you decided to have a Home library in your home, the first and foremost step in the process is choosing the right area.

Some people find fishy to have their bookshelf in the hall and some people feel drowsy when they allocate book space in their bedroom.

It is better if you allocate separate place like room with doors rather than shelf to feel the better reading experience. It is an added advantage, if you have balcony or windows in that room to have good ventilation.

As each place in our home bear certain vibes and emotions, it is very important for us to choose place correctly. So choose your area for home library after taking the consideration of above.

Pick up a color scheme

You may think, whether choosing a color scheme is that much important. But it matters a lot. Each color possesses its own emotions and has the power to kindle our emotions.

Usage of bright and clear color like sunny yellow, bright orange and lime green may invigorate you rather than inviting you to relax and read. So try to use colors which calm your mind like blue, pink, white, grey etc,.

You may also use wallpaper art to enhance better reading experience in your home library. You can also print your favorite quote which can motivate you to read.

Focus on lighting

Lighting also is an important step in the process of designing home library. It plays a dominant role in influencing our mood. It is important to have good lighting system in your home library. The brightness should be neither be too much nor be too dim, as both affect our eye sight. You can also use customized neon lights to make your home library look rich.

Get your Furnishing done right

And yes. Now it is the time to arrange furniture in your home library. What kind of furniture you have to choose depends on the size of your area for home library. If home library is used by every persons in your home, then you can use sizable table and chairs.

Make sure of ventilation. If your space for home library won’t have balcony or window, arrange for air conditioner or air cooler as per your budget.

You can use wood shelves to arrange your books. You can also use drawer, pen stand to keep things properly.

You can make use of multi-functional furniture available in market. And also, you can use small stools to take books from shelves.

Arrange your books

This is the crucial step in your entire process to design home library. If above mentioned steps are done right, but you are unable to find the book instantly when you need it, your entire effort to set up home library becomes zero. It will then simply acts as a room only not a home library.

It is because, we people always feel bored to search things. We need things immediately as we wish for it. So, If you are unable to get books right in time you need, you will feel irritated and simply postpone that idea of reading that book.

Therefore, arrange your books in an organized manner and also in a way to get easily without spending much time for searching.

Additional Tips to enhance your experience of Reading

  • Make sure, your home library is located in a place in which there is no noise pollution. Sound distracts your spirit to read books.
  • Arrange a small table or pouch at the entrance of such room, to keep your phone in that. It is because, mobile phones are the greatest source of distraction. So keep it in silent and place it away from you, when you enter into home library.
  • Make sure, you never keep books lower. Sometimes, kids in your home may tear the pages whenever they come inside. Also, Don’t arrange the books in a high place. It is because, you may feel discomfort when you about to take such books from almirah. So, it is advisable to keep books in arm’s length distance.
  • Allocate a separate place in your home library for dictionary, sticky notes, notebooks, sheets, pen and highlighter. These things gives you a great support in learning things and helps you to take notes as and when you need it.
  • It may sometimes happen, that you lend books to other people. So, maintain a log book. Make a note in it, whenever you lend books to others. It helps you to track the books and the chances to lose books becomes less.
  • You can use certain mild perfumes or some room freshener to calm and relax your mind. Thereby you can have better experience of reading.
  • As much as possible, Try to avoid having large windows in your home library. Sometimes in rainy season, it is possible that books may be spoiled when it gets wet.
  • Clean your almirah periodically. It makes your home library to look well ordered. And it avoid invasion of small insects like termites, which will destroy your books and wood almirah.

Final Note

There is one saying in English-

“Libraries are sacred time machines where knowledge flows and

magic is eternal”

So, we can now realize that the home library is also an inevitable part to be included as a part in your sweet home. Life is once. Rather than doing mistakes and learning lessons from them, allocate your part of your time for reading and thereby speed up your process of learning. This home library helps you to elevate from your current level to the better version of yourself.