Comments on: The Wreck Room http://forthejourney.net/2006/01/the-wreck-room/ Not just the destination... Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:21:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robust McManlyPants http://forthejourney.net/2006/01/the-wreck-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2425 Robust McManlyPants Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:51:41 +0000 http://www.sallad.net/blog/2006/01/18/the-wreck-room/#comment-2425 That's a room that screams to be a library and display area. (The display area I got from your own comment, but I was honestly going to say library. :) ) Put in bookcases (or - yeah, more projects, I know - build in some shelves of medium height rather than buying the pressboard ceiling-reachers) around the room. Leave walls book-free for display of posters. Rather than create a library that stores books but you otherwise don't hang out in, put the books in a big showcase room that's a walk-through space rather than a destination space. So, when you want a book, go there and get it and take it to the porch or the living room or wherever you read. It'll also serve to show off to guests, and gives them a quiet place to borrow a book on their own. Yes, it's a huge room, and maybe you don't have enough books to fill it. But we all end up with enough books <i>eventually</i>, right? The Boyf (my boyf) could fill that room with filled shelves and need more space besides. That’s a room that screams to be a library and display area. (The display area I got from your own comment, but I was honestly going to say library. :) ) Put in bookcases (or – yeah, more projects, I know – build in some shelves of medium height rather than buying the pressboard ceiling-reachers) around the room. Leave walls book-free for display of posters. Rather than create a library that stores books but you otherwise don’t hang out in, put the books in a big showcase room that’s a walk-through space rather than a destination space. So, when you want a book, go there and get it and take it to the porch or the living room or wherever you read. It’ll also serve to show off to guests, and gives them a quiet place to borrow a book on their own.

Yes, it’s a huge room, and maybe you don’t have enough books to fill it. But we all end up with enough books eventually, right? The Boyf (my boyf) could fill that room with filled shelves and need more space besides.

]]> By: sallad http://forthejourney.net/2006/01/the-wreck-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2424 sallad Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:40:23 +0000 http://www.sallad.net/blog/2006/01/18/the-wreck-room/#comment-2424 I posted this on a room decorating site and one of my real life friends who reads it too saw it and reminded me that it would be a good place to display any collections I might have. And, I do have a collection of VW Bus stuff - posters, vintage ads, toys, models, etc - and I had not found a place for them in my house yet. I think that would be a good location for them. I posted this on a room decorating site and one of my real life friends who reads it too saw it and reminded me that it would be a good place to display any collections I might have. And, I do have a collection of VW Bus stuff – posters, vintage ads, toys, models, etc – and I had not found a place for them in my house yet. I think that would be a good location for them.

]]> By: sallad http://forthejourney.net/2006/01/the-wreck-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2423 sallad Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:38:29 +0000 http://www.sallad.net/blog/2006/01/18/the-wreck-room/#comment-2423 That's funny - great minds think alike. After checking out the link you sent me of the room, I realized it was the same room that I had bookmarked as inspiration. I saw it on the Divine Design - my fav HGTV show. Here's the HGTV site: http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/dc_design_living_area/article/0,1793,HGTV_3376_4290469,00.html And here's the N&O site: http://www.newsobserver.com/371/story/388297.html That’s funny – great minds think alike. After checking out the link you sent me of the room, I realized it was the same room that I had bookmarked as inspiration. I saw it on the Divine Design – my fav HGTV show.

Here’s the HGTV site: http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/dc_design_living_area/article/0,1793,HGTV_3376_4290469,00.html

And here’s the N&O site:
http://www.newsobserver.com/371/story/388297.html

]]> By: Lynn http://forthejourney.net/2006/01/the-wreck-room/comment-page-1/#comment-2422 Lynn Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:33:53 +0000 http://www.sallad.net/blog/2006/01/18/the-wreck-room/#comment-2422 The Saturday News and Observer took a rec room very similar to yours and redesigned it. I even showed it to your dad as a possibility for you. I suspect he threw the paper away, but I'll look around just in case it is still here. The Saturday News and Observer took a rec room very similar to yours and redesigned it. I even showed it to your dad as a possibility for you. I suspect he threw the paper away, but I’ll look around just in case it is still here.

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