"Interior Design Books"

At a loss for home redecorating ideas? You know that a room needs painting, but what color? The old couch with collapsed springs must go, but with what should it be replaced? Maybe it’s time to abandon the bedroom set your mother used for thirty years before giving it to you twenty years ago? What about the coffee and end tables in the living room? The dark Spanish look was in vogue in the 1970’s but that style is probably not on the rebound, particularly with plastic spindles.

What you need is a plan—for one room or for the whole house. The Library’s “interior decoration” section on the 2nd floor, east wing (Dewey # 747) is loaded with new—and some not so new—books with ideas on decorating your whole house or just one room.

One of the new books is “Design Ideas for Home Decorating” by Creative Homeowner. This beautifully illustrated book is arranged by rooms. A chapter focuses on the importance of knowing your style. Are you a laid-back modern or a fussy formal person? Do you have a lot of knickknacks (you might prefer calling them objects d’art) for display or do you like the Spartan look?

As color is so very important in choosing paint and fabrics, another chapter is devoted to color and it offers the reader a good understanding the “color wheel”.

In addition to the many books, the Library also subscribes to a number of interior design magazines. While the most recent copy of each title may not be checked out, patrons are encouraged to borrow earlier issues to peruse at home. Titles include “House Beautiful”,
“Architectural Digest”, “Traditional Home”, “Country Living” ,“Better Homes and Gardens”, “Creative Home”, “Good Housekeeping”, “Martha Stewart Living”, “Old House Journal”, and “Southern Living”.

For the next several months, the members of the Friends of the Columbus Public Library are featuring “Marley and Me” by John Grogan as the “One Book, One Columbus” book. On Saturday, February 24 at 2:00 PM, Mike Renner, a trainer at the Noah’s Ark Assistance Dogs of Crete, will be presenting a service dog demonstration. Also featured that afternoon is State Patrolman, Ron Kosiba, and a “drug sniffing” dog. In the Children’s Room, the librarian, Brad Hruska, will be telling doggie stories at the Thursday story times in February.