In honour of my (30th!) birthday today, a gift for you all: my five favourite libraries from the last year of Library Lust posts. Enjoy!
Photocredit: Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg (via here)
via Country Life
photo credit: Simon Brown
via Country Life
If you’re interested, you can also check out past birthday editions from 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, and 2011.
The Captive Reader 
Happy birthday to you. They are all lovely but I like the first one best. Sofa, flowers, tea on the table, garden outside — and books! Hope you have a chance to enjoy a day like this yourself.
Such wonderful rooms. Wish you a very happy birthday, and a nice chair to curl up in!
Love the look of these libraries. Thanks for sharing the photos. Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, and my favorite is the first too 🙂 love the color combinations
A very happy birthday! I hope you have a wonderful day, and that there are some books to celebrate 🙂
The couch in the second photo looks most comfortable, but I want the shelves of the fourth!
30’s a fine age to be (I think I remember it…:)) Happy birthday!!
Happy birthday! Thanks for including us in the celebration.
Happy Birthday! Thanks for these lovely pictures. I liked the gold room so much when I first saw it, that I have bought some gold paint to paint my study. Hope it ends up looking as good.
Happy Birthday, Claire, and many, many more.
I always enjoy your Library Lust posts and look forward to each and every one. These are some of my favorites – and a great way to celebrate your birthday.
Happy birthday! Welcome to your 30s! May they be filled with memorable books, beautiful walks, and more travel! Great birthday library choices. If only one of them could be wrapped up for you eh?
Happy Birthday Claire, whatever sort of room you get to spend it in.
Happy birthday! If you don;t get one of those libraries for your birthday hopefully you at least get some books to put in the library you do have!
Happy Birthday and thank you for the memories!
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you-hoo, happy birthday to you! Can’t you hear me singing to you, Claire?
Hope you are having a lovely day. I was 41 when you were born so it won’t take you long to work out how old this old gal is!
If I had to choose just one of those libraries for my own, it would be the top one, the one in green and white with accents of magenta with, as Harriet says, tea on the table! Wonderful. Second would be the yellow one with those lovely wing chairs.
Margaret P
Happy Birthday! The 30s are great! (I’m turning 39 this year!) And thank you for sharing all these lovely library photos.
Happy birthday Claire, and welcome to the Thirties Club! 😉
Happy birthday, Claire! I love the fourth library. The varying heights of the bookshelves really shows off the angled ceiling. I’m not really a fan of yellow, but it works so well in the third library.
Happy Birthday!!