Back home, I spent an hour standing in front of some fiction bookcases, checking on titles.
They knew they were supposed to go a spot between bookcases against a wall.
The stone home has vaulted ceilings, a floor-to-ceiling fireplace, built-in bookcases and an outdoor pool with waterfall.
Aptly referred to as the Hidden Estate, the house also has a hidden room behind a wall of bookcases.
And we are lining the bookcases with a small-print wallpaper called French Tile, in Moss, from Michael S. Smith's Jasper line.
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The wallpaper would have looked ordinary against white, whereas the black trim lends the bookcases some punch and a bit of glory.
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On a table between the bookcases I put a tall candlestick lamp with a lampshade in Robert Kime's very pretty Pea Pods fabric.
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Fortuny used it to cover a scrapbook of his father's work, and later used it to cover the sliding bookcases in his own library.
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The living room is home to those French-style doors and a sizable fireplace, while the family room offers a wall of built-in bookcases and cabinetry.
His homes have a designer feel -- interior wood paneling, stainless steel kitchens, built-in bookcases -- packed into a space about the size of walk-in closets of upscale homes.
When the shots rang out, Vollmer locked her classroom door, covered the windows, including the one in the door, then took the children into a nook between bookcases and a wall.
More an intellectual than a corporate titan, Vanderbilt created the Platonic ideal of a library: plush red chairs surrounded by built-in walnut bookcases filled with 10, 000 gold-embossed, leather-covered volumes in eight different languages.
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Among items he claimed for, according to the Daily Telegraph which has been publishing leaked details of MPs expenses, were a new kitchen, seven doors, wooden flooring, bedroom furniture, chairs and tables, two bookcases and a television.
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