{"id":123065,"date":"2021-11-06T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/volume-control-how-creating-my-library-brought-order-in-a-world-of-chaos\/"},"modified":"2021-11-06T18:03:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T11:03:37","slug":"volume-control-how-creating-my-library-brought-order-in-a-world-of-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/volume-control-how-creating-my-library-brought-order-in-a-world-of-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume control: how creating my library brought order in a world of chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nLucy Mangan always dreamed of having her own library. One new house and 8,000 books later, it\u2019s become a realityI suppose it\u2019s this one, then,\u201d said my husband as we stepped into the garden. \u201cIt is,\u201d I whispered, a covetous gleam in my eye and lust in my soul. \u201cIt is.\u201dWe had looked at every house in Norfolk within our budget. None had been right. This one wasn\u2019t either, but \u2026 running along the width of the bottom of the garden was a former cart house that the current owners had made into two rooms, one big \u2013 used to put up grandchildren overnight \u2013 and one small, used as a study. Plastered walls, a flagstoned floor, three sets of french doors opening on to the garden: it was, clearly, a library in waiting. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Lucy Mangan always dreamed of having her own library. 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