Tall passageways lined with books
The standard "Australiana" room
A room filled with classic and contemporary records and CDs
A wondrous children's section, filled with old and new editions, including plenty of Bobbsey Twins and Enid Blyton
An amusingly decorated staircase, leading up to even more!
All the graphic novels and comics you could ask for
Cabinets filled with collections and curiosities
Another room for the musically-inclined, this time stocked with sheet music and biographies and autobiographies of musical greats
A hidden nook with vintage magazines (and even one with your dad's childhood babysitter on the cover!)
A comprehensive poetry section, in which an author's name may catch your eye
And where you might pull out a book purely because it's pretty, open it to find a stunning picture of the author, and read a dedication that will make you wistful for a romantic poet's life circa 1886
The most cozy fireplace and chair just asking to be curled up in
Stacks of beautiful vintage postcards
And even a gorgeous philodendron perched high on a shelf
Paradise indeed.
My kind of Paradise too. Sigh. Think you might be related to Cora Urquhart Potter? Would be interesting to look up!
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