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January 5, 2013 by Claire (The Captive Reader)

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Usually I am all in favour of making books the focal point of a room but even I can admit that there are times they need to be pushed into the background. Can you imagine waking up to that extraordinary view every day?

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on January 5, 2013 at 01:08 | Reply Robin Dawson

Wow! With a view like that I’d have to have a separate, dedicated reading room! …. or a wet, grey, English day.
on January 5, 2013 at 02:15 | Reply Pam Travellin Penguin

If I had that view I would never leave the room. I’d be like Maggie Smith, sitting in a dilapidated old chair and being grumpy at anyone who dared to interfere with my reading time in front of that window. Pure bliss.
on January 5, 2013 at 04:56 | Reply Audrey

Then again, you’d need nice thick drapes, because that sheet of blackness would be so cold and forbidding at night, when you’re reading in bed. Wait, though, but then you couldn’t fall sleep under the stars…
on January 5, 2013 at 05:32 | Reply Lisa

Oh my goodness! I was trying to figure out if that amazing window actually opened, since the curtain seems to be billowing in the breeze, but then I noticed the smaller side window – which settled my vertigo!
on January 5, 2013 at 06:09 | Reply Joan Kyler

This reminds me of the first time I went to stay at a ranch in Moose, WY. I got there after dark and the next morning I drew back the curtains in the rustic little cabin and saw the Tetons! They didn’t look real, they looked like a movie backdrop. Doesn’t your soul fly to see such beauty?
on January 5, 2013 at 06:42 | Reply Margaret Powling

Now that is quite somehing! as Pam Travelling Penguin says, Pure Bliss!
on January 5, 2013 at 07:11 | Reply lemon123

I can’t begin to imagine.
on January 5, 2013 at 08:42 | Reply Susan in TX

Oh. my. I will just say “ditto” to Pam Travellin Penguin. 🙂
on January 5, 2013 at 09:40 | Reply Karen K.

I would kill for a view like that. And I agree, I’d never leave the house!!
on January 5, 2013 at 10:58 | Reply jaynesbooks

On a day like that, I would probably not want to leave the room and have a hard time going to work…
on January 5, 2013 at 16:14 | Reply Margaret Stedman

I’d only add a lovely tall pile of books to be read standing available beside the bed! Great photo.
on January 5, 2013 at 18:58 | Reply lifeonthecutoff

Yep! I can imagine myself there.
on January 6, 2013 at 10:17 | Reply Tiina

What an amazing view! Lovely, very relaxing -and there are still lots of books in the room! 🙂
on January 6, 2013 at 11:44 | Reply Belle

Takes ‘reading in bed’ to an all-time high!
on January 6, 2013 at 12:56 | Reply Christy

Gorgeous. I also would never want to leave. I really like the exposed rafters too.
on January 6, 2013 at 14:10 | Reply lilac

That is SPECtacular, love it, thanks for sharing and happy 2013!
on January 7, 2013 at 13:10 | Reply olduvai

I was so captivated by that view that I didn’t spot the bookshelves at first, and wondered why you had featured it in Library Lust!