I'm grateful for a home big enough for everyone to have their own space. After 10+ years in a 2-bedroom condo with open-plan kitchen/living/dining room, it's quite a novelty! This is my book nook. I cheated and took two pictures because it's kind of an odd L shape.
Unlike everyone else's (the kids' bedrooms, NT's record room, AS's craft room), my space isn't a room per se. It's a large area at the top of the stairs, and people have to pass through it to get to the bedrooms and one of our bathrooms.
And it's not really *my* space; the whole family keeps their books in it, the kids watch shows up there sometimes, and we often do bedtime reading there. But it's mine in that I get the final say in what goes in it and how it's decorated. That's a nice feeling. So is having "my" space be somewhere everyone likes to hang out once in a while. I haven't really had a chance to decorate properly, but I've scrounged some free furniture, put up old art, and my downstairs neighbor helped finish out the bookshelves (I only had the two tall ones when I moved in; he bought me all the short ones.) I just got a print of one of my favorite paintings, so I'm going to put that up at some point. I also have a stack of boxes my dad sent me from my childhood bedroom that I need to go through. An organize/declutter project for one of these months!
And once I get in gear on my creative projects this year, hopefully this space will be a nice place to sit and work on them if I need quiet time to get them done.
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