Associated Press article on Bookshelf blog

I had the pleasure recently of speaking to Annie Flanzraich from AP about Shedworking's first satellite site the Bookshelf blog and a couple of my thoughts have been incorporated into her excellent piece 'Artfully arranged books bring life to a room'. It's being picked up by various titles including Foster's Daily Democrat. Here's a taster:

"Now, some designers are challenging the tradition of an upright bookcase with surprising innovations, even building book shelving into a bathtub. Leni Leth, owner of Book Décor, a California company that specializes in refurbishing and selling leather-bound books, suggests forgetting the shelves, instead using books as risers for candles and lamps, on coffee tables and even in bathrooms. "Books can be like flower arrangements, but can last longer," Leth says. Books can even create the furniture. A stack of large art books topped with a piece of glass becomes a coffee table."

Well worth a browse.

Bookshelf is The Scotsman's Website of the Week

Obviously a paper (and journalist) of fine taste, Lee Randall of The Scotsman has chosen Shedworking's baby sibling Bookshelf as their Website of the Week. Here's what Lee says:

"Perhaps the best thing about the internet is its appeal to fetishists of every description. So here's one for everyone out there whose house is being overtaken by books (hey, it's a good thing!) ... a blog entirely devoted to the storage of same. Yes, boys and girls, someone's devoted an entire blog to the subject of shelving, and how interesting it is! Who knew you could get bookshelves in the shape of cats ogling birds with evil intent? Or shelves that look like coat hangers? Or shelves that look as though they're made of other books? Or – oh my god! – books that are actually stairs? It's like we died and went to library heaven!"

Bookshelf blog featured in The Guardian

Shedworking's first spin-off site Bookshelf gets a nice mention on The Guardian's online books blog where Lindesay Irvine very kindly calls it "beguiling" and adds: "Though anybody with more than a few books is going to need a pretty gigantic home to make these shelves in any way practical, I'm sure I'm not the only one who comes over all covetous when looking at the elegance of the objects."

Bookshelf - Shedworking's first spin-off site

Shedworking is about so much more than merely getting on with your work in your garden office (or garden office-like atmosphere). One of the delights of having your own space is that you can furnish it exactly how you like, which is why Shedworking regularly profiles interesting new designs which can make your home office a special place to telecommute from. Naturally chairs and desks are among the most regularly featured items on the site, but so are bookshelves and we've come across so many interesting bookshelf/case designs that we've decided that our first satellite site - rather than cover animal sheds as suggested by Garden Monkey - will be Bookshelf. We've started it up so please do nip across and take a look if you want some book candy. And of course if you spot something on your interweb travels you feel should be featured, please get in touch.