36 Reading Nooks That Inspire Inner Peace (and Book Recs to Go With Them!)
Screen time? What's that?
Writer Durga Chew-Bose summed up the beauty of a nook in her essay Heart Museum: "What a nook person wants is space, however small, to follow whatever image is driving her... Nook people find it trying to imagine themselves in real-life situations but long to climb into, for instance, a movie still," or, of course, a good book. Because nook people ceaselessly seek stories, nothing goes better together than nooks and books! If you can relate, what's stopping you from arranging your very own reading nook? Whether you want to build a cozy architectural space to crawl into, or even if you just have an awkward corner in your home, a reading nook is just a few design tips and ideas away. From sophisticated and modern to eclectic, quirky, and classic, the spaces below will inspire you to create your very own reading nook to escape to.
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