Do you dream of filling the walls of your home library with a fabulous book collection and riding past the packed shelves on your very own rolling library ladder? If the lack of square footage in your ...

Take a page out of these welcoming spaces for your own reading-ready nook. There are few things better than curling up in a ...

This home library ideas by Marie Flanigan of Marie Flanigan Interiors sets a grand stage with the floor to ceiling bookshelves, dark paint, and comfy seating. "This home, with its beautiful ...

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 ...

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 ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a house without books. Besides providing the joys of reading, books are accessories that can personalize a room, dust a neutral space with color, and bring warmth and ...

For the most diehard bibliophiles, sometimes it's not enough to simply visit the local public library. They must have their own. They design their homes with magnificent home libraries, so that every ...

"I had always yearned for a double-height library, since books are my life," wrote author Andrew Solomon in our September 2017 story about the restoration of his crumbling New York City townhouse, a ...

From left: The Tianjin Binhai Library in China, the Long Room in the library of Dublin’s Trinity College and Phillips Exeter Academy Library, New Hampshire.Zhang Peng/LightRocket, Shutterstock, Carol ...

Emily VanBuren is a PhD student in history at Northwestern University. You can find her on Twitter at @emilydvb or at her blog, dighistorienne. Summer is just around the corner, and I’ve been drawing ...