After many years of moving around and roommates filtering in and out of our house, the husband and I have finally moved to a decent sized one bedroom apartment by ourselves. This is very exciting because we now have ownership of the entire space and we live alone. Oh, glorious solitude.
We aren’t decorators or anything fancy, but we are both writers and in turn, we both love to read. So I thought I would just throw up some pictures of our writing space and our bookshelves.
This is our writing area. If Mike and I ever wanted to write at the same time, there is a desk in our bedroom but it’s not as organized or apt for writing but it can be done. This desk is by a window (a must for me, at our old place I wrote at the kitchen table because of its proximity to a window) and has no clutter or anything to busy or distracting. There’s our ‘stereo’ for music and some keepsakes and photographs on the wall. Our boards for planning are there, too. My second book is planned on the whiteboard even though I think I’m actually going to give it a full overhaul. Outlining, ugh.
Our bookshelves! This is very exciting. We obviously, as you can see, kept a lot of our textbooks. Mike is a screenwriter so he has a lot of his film textbooks and I have some education and writing ones, too. We also have inherited a lot of books from my grandparents over the years and that painting was done by my talented mother-in-law.
Our bookshelves are a bit overflowing so I put all of my YA books on the top.
There’s no real order to this except that I am keeping series together if applicable. The far left stack is my to read pile. It has grown since I took this picture.
There you have it! The writing space has already proven to be wonderful while I’m editing and hopefully it will continue to be an inspiring place. And hopefully the bookshelves will stay happily overflowing but wont burst any time soon.
Where do you keep your books once your shelves are full? Let me know!
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