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The sculptural bookshelf practical enough for small spaces



This spine-like shelf helped my space look ?design-y? without being an actual stack of books on the floor When I was 25, I moved into a Moscow apartment overflowing with the personal effects of a previous resident, who I gathered was my landlord?s recently deceased grandmother. I replaced the ancient fold-out couch in the bedroom with an Ikea frame and mattress, but ticket stubs, old postcards, and the rest of the stodgy Brezhnev-era furniture stayed.
After living in a museum of another person?s life, I wanted to be surrounded by my own things?that also didn?t look like everyone else?s. So when I returned to the U.S. a year later and settled into a sparsely furnished room in a Washington, D.C., rowhouse, I didn?t head straight to Ikea. Instead, I combed thrift stores crammed with musty vintage furniture, bought an old headboard I planned to paint robin?s egg blue, and started poring over home design blogs like Apartment Therapy and Design Sponge. A lot of products on these sites were out of my price range, like a $2,500 bed frame from Design Within Reach or a $999 dresser from Blu Dot, but the articles still fueled my creative vision. One suggested fashioning a ?nightstand? out of a stack of books, so I procured several large hardcovers from a yard sale specifically for this purpose. My bedside tower created the bohemian look I was going for, but quickly got dusty. It was also a risky place to rest a glass of water.

Susie Armitage
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