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October 26, 2013 by Claire (The Captive Reader)

photo credit: Lincoln Barbour (for Dwell)

While I am technically a grown up, that is not stopping me from coveting this children’s playroom.

Posted in Library Lust | 11 Comments

11 Responses

on October 26, 2013 at 00:44 | Reply Sarah

I love this, just fantastic.
on October 26, 2013 at 01:01 | Reply Margaret Powling

Call me a wuss, but I’d be terrified that those youngsters would fall and break their necks.
on October 26, 2013 at 07:49 | Reply Susan in TX

I can’t resist the rolling ladders!
on October 26, 2013 at 11:04 | Reply Nish

I want a room like that too 🙂
on October 26, 2013 at 11:10 | Reply Jeane

Awesome. You know kids with a library like that are going to grow into avid readers! Unless it was staged… ?
on October 26, 2013 at 11:54 | Reply Richard

Margret: wuss. You can’t bubble wrap them.

I think it’s a delightful wall and these are lucky kids.
on October 26, 2013 at 15:40 | Reply KD Did It

I want this…in my bedroom, in my living room, in my dining room, down the hallway…
on October 27, 2013 at 15:33 | Reply lifeonthecutoff

It will grow with the kids (though I, too, would be worried about kids on those ladders). You can have it, Claire; if you are coveting a library like this, I think it means you are still a kid.
on October 28, 2013 at 19:32 | Reply Sunday Taylor

Anything that encourages children to read is ok with me! A delightful space for a child to dream in!
on October 29, 2013 at 01:26 | Reply Margaret Powling

Richard: you are a bloke, blokes don’t think of dangers in the way we women think (esp. those of us who have had children, and inquisitive ones at that.) I appreciate there are dangers in almost everything, but you’d not allow children to climb onto a roof like that, so why indoors? I reckon bunk beds with a soft carpet to cushion falls would be fine, but not for a small child to climb up 8 or 9 or more feet, which it would be doing if it wanted to reach the very top of these shelves. We will just have to agree to disagree. I actually fell as a child, investigating a high cupboard and ended up in hospital having my head stitched. I speak from painful experience. Fortunately, it wasn’t worse than a deep gash.
on November 4, 2013 at 13:27 | Reply Julie K.

It is fantastic how many books you can get in. I’ve wanted something like this ever since I was a child. Now I would need a ladder in my kitchen though as sometimes it is hard to reach heights. I was thinking, if I’ll add some good reads to my kitchen cupboards, it would solve my problem finding the time to sit down with a book.