Floating Shelves

A friend sent me a link to floating bookshelves as a joke... and I bought them. They are awesome! They are tiny little L-shaped pieces of metal that you can't even see once they're up. You put the back cover of the bottom book under the bottom of the shelf and it clips into a tiny lip on the shelf. Voila floating books!

(The corner before the shelves)

(The corner after the shelves)

They hold up to 15 lbs. of books and I actually have a tiny bit of space on my bedside table again!

Photos by moi.

Book Wallpaper

I LOVE this wallpaper ... in theory.

It's wallpaper that looks like stacks of books. Which is such a fun idea. But then I started thinking about it and in the end, if I have a little bit of extra wall space, I'm going to put a bookcase there, not pictures of books. And I wouldn't want to put that wallpaper up somewhere that it would get covered, because it's just too cool.

So as fun as the idea is, I think I would prefer stacks of books I can actually read.

Photo from Anthropologie