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16 Slick Ways To Decorate Your Home With Your Book Collection

  • Use them to create a DIY coffee table. You could use a reclaimed door or sheet of glass as the top and your book collection to create the legs. While this looks awesome, particularly in shabby chic houses, it’s probably a sensible idea for families with young children or animals running around that might knock it all over. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Use them to create a DIY coffee table. You could use a reclaimed door or sheet of glass as the top and your book collection to create the legs. While this looks awesome, particularly in shabby chic houses, it’s probably a sensible idea for families with young children or animals running around that might knock it all over. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Use them to create a DIY coffee table. You could use a reclaimed door or sheet of glass as the top and your book collection to create the legs. While this looks awesome, particularly in shabby chic houses, it’s probably a sensible idea for families with young children or animals running around that might knock it all over. [Photo: Pinterest]
  • Display them with the jacket, rather than the spine, facing the room. The books then work as pieces of art in your choosen room. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Display them with the jacket, rather than the spine, facing the room. The books then work as pieces of art in your choosen room. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Display them with the jacket, rather than the spine, facing the room. The books then work as pieces of art in your choosen room. [Photo: Pinterest]
  • Use an old wooden ladder as an alternative to a normal bookcase. Great if you’re after a rustic look. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Use an old wooden ladder as an alternative to a normal bookcase. Great if you’re after a rustic look. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Use an old wooden ladder as an alternative to a normal bookcase. Great if you’re after a rustic look. [Photo: Pinterest]
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  • Use your coffee table books as a makeshift end table. Genius. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Use your coffee table books as a makeshift end table. Genius. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Use your coffee table books as a makeshift end table. Genius. [Photo: Pinterest]
  • Pick you books with the best covers and frame them on the wall - the perfect affordable art! [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Pick you books with the best covers and frame them on the wall - the perfect affordable art! [Photo: Pinterest]

    Pick you books with the best covers and frame them on the wall - the perfect affordable art! [Photo: Pinterest]
  • Get a giant circular book shelf like this one - it’s certainly different. And you could line the interior with cushions as a cute reading nook. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Get a giant circular book shelf like this one - it’s certainly different. And you could line the interior with cushions as a cute reading nook. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Get a giant circular book shelf like this one - it’s certainly different. And you could line the interior with cushions as a cute reading nook. [Photo: Pinterest]
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  • Make use of an exposed pipes to house your books. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Make use of an exposed pipes to house your books. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Make use of an exposed pipes to house your books. [Photo: Pinterest]
  • How good is this book shelf? Ideal for modern apartments and homes. You can buy one from Etsy. [Photo: Etsy]
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    How good is this book shelf? Ideal for modern apartments and homes. You can buy one from Etsy. [Photo: Etsy]

    How good is this book shelf? Ideal for modern apartments and homes. You can buy one from Etsy. [Photo: Etsy]
  • This is also pretty clever. You’ll just have to make sure you distribute the weight of your books well. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    This is also pretty clever. You’ll just have to make sure you distribute the weight of your books well. [Photo: Pinterest]

    This is also pretty clever. You’ll just have to make sure you distribute the weight of your books well. [Photo: Pinterest]
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  • Got a large staircase and don’t mind a bit of a organised chaos? Pile your books on the stairs for a rustic and homely vibe. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Got a large staircase and don’t mind a bit of a organised chaos? Pile your books on the stairs for a rustic and homely vibe. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Got a large staircase and don’t mind a bit of a organised chaos? Pile your books on the stairs for a rustic and homely vibe. [Photo: Pinterest]
  • If you’vd got an old grand piano lying around, you could always use that to display your books. Much more interesting to look at than your bod standard book shelf. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    If you’vd got an old grand piano lying around, you could always use that to display your books. Much more interesting to look at than your bod standard book shelf. [Photo: Pinterest]

    If you’vd got an old grand piano lying around, you could always use that to display your books. Much more interesting to look at than your bod standard book shelf. [Photo: Pinterest]
  • Take inspiration from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and display your books in a huge bell jar. Only problem is you may struggle to find the one you want to read… [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Take inspiration from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and display your books in a huge bell jar. Only problem is you may struggle to find the one you want to read… [Photo: Pinterest]

    Take inspiration from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and display your books in a huge bell jar. Only problem is you may struggle to find the one you want to read… [Photo: Pinterest]
  • Keep up to speed at a glance with the Top 10 daily stories

    Yahoo News is better in the app

    Keep up to speed at a glance with the Top 10 daily stories

  • Perfect for kids rooms, this low-level bookshelf will mean they can reach their storybooks. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Perfect for kids rooms, this low-level bookshelf will mean they can reach their storybooks. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Perfect for kids rooms, this low-level bookshelf will mean they can reach their storybooks. [Photo: Pinterest]
  • Invisible book shelfs look really good in modern and minimalist homes. The book at the bottom of the pile simply slots onto the bracket, obscuring it from view. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Invisible book shelfs look really good in modern and minimalist homes. The book at the bottom of the pile simply slots onto the bracket, obscuring it from view. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Invisible book shelfs look really good in modern and minimalist homes. The book at the bottom of the pile simply slots onto the bracket, obscuring it from view. [Photo: Pinterest]
  • Display your books up high. Shelves lined around the very top of a room can help give the space height - and keep the walls clear. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Display your books up high. Shelves lined around the very top of a room can help give the space height - and keep the walls clear. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Display your books up high. Shelves lined around the very top of a room can help give the space height - and keep the walls clear. [Photo: Pinterest]
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  • Another one for vintage lovers; pop your books in traditional suitcases on the floor in your bedroom or lounge. [Photo: Pinterest]
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    Another one for vintage lovers; pop your books in traditional suitcases on the floor in your bedroom or lounge. [Photo: Pinterest]

    Another one for vintage lovers; pop your books in traditional suitcases on the floor in your bedroom or lounge. [Photo: Pinterest]
Use them to create a DIY coffee table. You could use a reclaimed door or sheet of glass as the top and your book collection to create the legs. While this looks awesome, particularly in shabby chic houses, it’s probably a sensible idea for families with young children or animals running around that might knock it all over. [Photo: Pinterest]
Display them with the jacket, rather than the spine, facing the room. The books then work as pieces of art in your choosen room. [Photo: Pinterest]
Use an old wooden ladder as an alternative to a normal bookcase. Great if you’re after a rustic look. [Photo: Pinterest]
Use your coffee table books as a makeshift end table. Genius. [Photo: Pinterest]
Pick you books with the best covers and frame them on the wall - the perfect affordable art! [Photo: Pinterest]
Get a giant circular book shelf like this one - it’s certainly different. And you could line the interior with cushions as a cute reading nook. [Photo: Pinterest]
Make use of an exposed pipes to house your books. [Photo: Pinterest]
How good is this book shelf? Ideal for modern apartments and homes. You can buy one from Etsy. [Photo: Etsy]
This is also pretty clever. You’ll just have to make sure you distribute the weight of your books well. [Photo: Pinterest]
Got a large staircase and don’t mind a bit of a organised chaos? Pile your books on the stairs for a rustic and homely vibe. [Photo: Pinterest]
If you’vd got an old grand piano lying around, you could always use that to display your books. Much more interesting to look at than your bod standard book shelf. [Photo: Pinterest]
Take inspiration from ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and display your books in a huge bell jar. Only problem is you may struggle to find the one you want to read… [Photo: Pinterest]
Perfect for kids rooms, this low-level bookshelf will mean they can reach their storybooks. [Photo: Pinterest]
Invisible book shelfs look really good in modern and minimalist homes. The book at the bottom of the pile simply slots onto the bracket, obscuring it from view. [Photo: Pinterest]
Display your books up high. Shelves lined around the very top of a room can help give the space height - and keep the walls clear. [Photo: Pinterest]
Another one for vintage lovers; pop your books in traditional suitcases on the floor in your bedroom or lounge. [Photo: Pinterest]
Alison Coldridge

It’s great to have lots of reading material at home, but stacks and stacks of books tend to take up lots space not to mention and have a habit of looking a little unkept.

But there are ways that you can display your literary collection to make it look stylised, so it adds to your home space - rather than hindering it.