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A library on Station Road

Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves around a doorway, painted in deep blue, with a rolling ladder on a brass rail.

Where
Edwardian semi, Station Road
Fitted
September 2025
Timber
Painted tulipwood, birch ply
Finish
Eggshell in ink blue
On the bench
7 weeks
Floor-to-ceiling deep blue bookshelves full of old books built around a doorway in a sitting room, with a rolling library ladder on a brass rail

Ladder rail at 2 280

Two thousand books and one sitting room. The shelves wrap the doorway and both alcoves, with a deep cupboard at the bottom for the things that aren’t books.

Every shelf has a solid tulipwood front edge, 25 mm thick, so they don’t sag under a full row of hardbacks. The ladder runs on a brass rail along the whole wall and parks by the door.

Close-up of a blue painted library ladder hooked over a brass rail, old leather-bound books blurred on the shelves behind
Fig. 2The ladder hook, turned in brass by a friend of the workshop

Cut list

PartSize (mm)Qty
Upright2 740 × 320 × 259
Shelf860 × 300 × 2546
Ladder stile2 600 × 70 × 322
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