{"id":5386,"date":"2012-10-03T07:23:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T11:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=5386"},"modified":"2015-12-26T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T04:34:22","slug":"stepping-up-with-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2012\/10\/stepping-up-with-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping up with Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the start of a new school year. Do you have more books than you know what to do with? We can never have enough bookshelves in my house but rather than build more, wouldn&#8217;t it be great if bookshelves had a dual purpose besides just holding books? <a title=\"Designtaxi\" href=\"http:\/\/designtaxi.com\/news\/353224\/For-Book-Lovers-A-Staircase-That-Doubles-As-A-Bookcase\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seeing this design<\/a> for books gave me a lot of inspiration. Now I just have to build more stairs.<\/p>\n<p>This Bookcase Staircase by <a title=\"Levitate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.levitate.uk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Levitate<\/a> can store 2,000 books.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5387\" title=\"Bookcase Staircase via Designtaxi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1.jpg\" alt=\"Bookcase Staircase, as seen on Art Is Everywhere \" width=\"500\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2.jpg\"><img 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Staircase by Levitate\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6.jpg\" alt=\"Bookcase Staircase by Levitate, as seen on Art Is Eveywhere\" width=\"500\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This design makes reading even more fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art is Everywhere shows an ingenious solution for storing books in a 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