These interior designers have strategies for creating personal spaces for reading, whether it is in a dedicated room or a welcoming corner in your house. By Tim McKeough If you own a lot of books, ...

Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we explore how to make a library look at home in a ...

I went to visit my best friend from college and fell in love — with her library. It was meticulously organized, yet outright pretty, with cascading shelves of hardcovers in coordinating colors. I ...

Barbara has written professionally for more than two decades. In the past five years, she has specialized in creating real estate and home improvement content. Besides writing for Forbes Home, she ...

A home library can be an oasis of books and cozy materials, very often turning into a hub for both solitary reading and communal gathering. With the right styling, it can also simply be a focal point ...

Even a Nook-carrying, digitally devoted iPad acolyte can appreciate a good home library. Not simply a storage space for print products, a library is a classic (and classy), highly customizable escape ...

Custom built-ins are one of those design elements that can step your home up from nice to magazine worthy. Unfortunately, their high style is usually matched by their price. Given this reality, you ...

Two automated bookcases at the Davis Library are fascinating library users. When the Chronicle visited, a family spent several minutes observing the new auto-return shelves and screen as they returned ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Avid and casual bookworms alike can agree upon the ...