The Library

I may still do a few things with this room as some point, but I think it's in a sufficiently complete state to display.

Some time back, I finished turning a semi-finished space in my attic into an office space. This involved moving out a lot of old boxes and discarding a bunch of old stuff now no longer useful. The process slowly continued in the space adjacent to the office, which I turned into a somewhat steampunk-themed library/reading room. At the moment, it looks like this:

 

These are taken from the once and future guest room (still lots of work to do there but it's big enough for a sofa bed). The green curtain separates the library from the office. I'd put in the shelves on the left shortly after we moved in, before it got filled up with boxes, but the rest is new. The white structure on the right is something of an heirloom, a doll house built by hand for Stephanie by her grandfather. In theory, I'm in the process of renovating the lighting system. And the green rug is a lamb's wool rug I got in Nepal.

Other highlights of the room include:

Double bookcase! The one in front pivots open to reveal another layer of books. (That's a 1920s model Underwood on the upper left.)

 

Thing in the upper right of those first images is a knife switch controlling the lights over the tall bookshelves.

I built that green velvet chair, partly from the remains of a dismembered couch. It's surprisingly comfy.

And above the chair there's a porthole looking out of what is presumably an airship.

These vacuum tubes and mechanical switches are associated with the airship's aetheric stabilizers, tucked away between the tall bookshelves and the curtain.

And there's a gold art-deco border on the doorway between the library and the office.