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October 5, 2013 by Claire (The Captive Reader)

Gunby Hall, Lincolnshire (credit: Nadia Mackenzie)

I think I love everything about this room. The light, the tiles on the fireplace, the lovely desk, the really wonderful desk chair…yes, I could settle in here quite happily.

Posted in Library Lust | 10 Comments

10 Responses

on October 5, 2013 at 08:17 | Reply LauraC

This one’s a beauty, but I want a small but extremely comfortable reading chair just to the right of the fireplace angled toward the bookcases on the left. That would be perfection.
on October 5, 2013 at 09:44 | Reply Lilac

Love all the elements, but overall it’s very formal, if it were mine (ha!) I would add an easy chair – say a Lamino, with the footstool. I know, dream on.
on October 5, 2013 at 14:16 | Reply Richard

Either white shelves are really, really all the rage, or they just happen to be in the pictures you pick… I admit I prefer wood shelves in wood colors. Oak is the preference, lightly stained.
on October 5, 2013 at 18:31 | Reply lifeonthecutoff

I could wile away hours in this one, Claire, sitting at the desk, or in what looks like a comfy leather chair in the corner.
on October 6, 2013 at 00:27 | Reply Harriet

Beautiful room.
on October 6, 2013 at 01:03 | Reply Margaret Powling

This is a lovely room, but I find that the white shelves in this traditional library not quite right and, like Richard, I’d like to see lightly stained oak shelves. I expect there are comfortable chairs out of the picture – I’d need a lovely comfortable chair in which to read. Other than that, another great library.
on October 6, 2013 at 05:36 | Reply Susan in TX

Very nice. Imagine the letters written from the desk. 🙂 I love the tile in the fireplace.
on October 6, 2013 at 17:31 | Reply Travellin' Penguin

Beautiful for a formal library but not enough colour for me. Too much brown. I could only sit at that desk and probably read not much and write a bit until the brownness closed in. Would like to know what the titles are on the shelves though.
on October 10, 2013 at 11:53 | Reply Christine Harding

Bit too formal for me… butif I could chintz it up a bit, and install a saggy, baggy comfortable old chair (definitely no leather), and make it much, much, much untidier, then I could be happy there!
on October 14, 2013 at 04:44 | Reply Dreamer

One can always dream of such a place!