23 Relaxing and Cozy Reading Corners
Because sometimes all you need in life is a comfy chair and a good book.
Because sometimes all you need in life is a comfy chair and a good book.
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Built-In Daybed
The owners of this Massachusetts house outfitted their son's room with a built-in daybed and bookshelves. The trim is painted Van Courtland Blue by Benjamin Moore.
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Snug Space
The owner of this California home turned a 15-foot-wide section of hallway into a snug spot for reading with the help of Farrow & Ball'sHague Blue paint and an antique tobacco leather club chair. For a personal touch, she hung family photos in mismatched frames.
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Bellhop Style
To up the hospitality factor, the owner of this colorful Texas homebrought in a vintage hanging rack. She stows away extra linens in antique suitcases.
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Comfort in Carolina
A crab trap side table and a lamp—both from a local boutique—bookend this sitting area's Shabby Chic chaise lounge.
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Sunny Corner
The sap bucket next to this built-in daybed in this New Hampshire home holds three types of sunflowers, including a pale-yellow variety that the owner bred himself, named Reggie's Mix. The beadboard is painted in Benjamin Moore's Guacamole.
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Arkansas Sitting Area
A friend of the owner's sewed the linen slipcover for the sitting room's chaise lounge in this Arkansas home, purchased new at nearby boutique Vintage Cargo. The curtains are from Pottery Barn.
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A Striped Seat
A tufted ticking-stripe armchar sits beneath framed vintage butterfly specimens. The owners of this Catskills home bought the brass hurricane lamp at a garage sale down the road.
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Lounge Around
The owner of this Texas cottage was inspired to turn $10 cow-feed sifters found at the Round Top Antiques Fair into artful sconces with burlap fringe. Her husband fashioned the frame of the daybed using a $25 flea-market door and pallets. The pillowcases are made from old grain sacks.
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Calming Colors
Blue and white pillows and a custom roman shade (made with Christopher Farr fabric) reinvented an entryway as a reading nook in this Massachusetts home.
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Repurposed Decor
In the living room of this circa-1970s New York farmhouse, John Robshaw throw pillows help cushion a radiator-obscuring bench and turn it into a relaxing spot. The insect photos, by Linda B. Horn, hang on a wall painted White Dove by Benjamin Moore.
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Charming Accents
Found at a flea market, a pair of cast-iron owl andirons nest in the fireplace of this California home's bedroom corner.
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A Place to Rest
The owners of this Washington estate assembled a nonfunctioning clock with $23 of rope and plywood, plus leftover paint and hands cut from scrapwood. A burlap T.J. Maxx pillow, only $10, contrasts with a leather armchair scored on Craigslist.
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Punch of Patterns
The owner of this Kentucky retreat built this daybed, which wears a Home Goods gingham sheet and pillows from Pottery Barn (the green and one and the striped bolsters) and Home Goods (the large patterned square).
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Funky Corner
Decorator Sasha Emerson reupholstered her armchairs in cotton ticking and fashioned the window shades from linen chintz. Tweaking those traditional fabrics? An ad for a French furniture store, bought at Vintage European Posters in Berkeley, and a resin elephant table from the 1960s.
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Luxe Library
This Atlanta loft's iron daybed, draped with an antique cotton quilt, is more than 100 years old. The midcentury metal floor lamp came from a photo studio. The coffee table's a West Elm bargain.
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A Modern Spin
In this Massachusetts cabin, an Ikea sheepskin softens a 1970s bentwood rocker, which belonged to the owner's father. The tin B was part of a gas station sign.
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Room with a View
Designer Sarah Richardson relied on natural textures and colors to add warmth to her reading nook.
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Bold and Bright
In this Georgia lake house, the owner's collection of vintage tramp-art mirrors hangs above a custom settee—enlivened by a Utility Canvas quilted blanket—in the master bedroom. Westbrook sourced the carpet, sewn with Turkish flour sacks, from Sullivan Fine Rugs.
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Shades of Blue
A comfy featherbed softens a circa-1810 chaise in the master bedroom of this New York home. A hand-painted folding screen from the 1950s stands behind the structured chair.
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Reading Space
Textile whiz Thomas Paul customized a Ballard chair, upholstering its cushions with Pendleton throws, to create a sweet spot in our 2012 House of the Year guest bedroom.
From: Country Living US
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