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Angus Fergusson

Slideshow: Stylish Shelves

By
Samantha Pynn

Refresh the beat-up covers of well-read tomes with pretty paper.  Use different patterns to distinguish subjects, like poetry and drama, or collected works, such as Dickens and Twain. Label only the front covers for a clean look. If it drives you crazy to leave the spines unidentified, label them instead, using simple ivory stickers.

To create a custom dust jacket, trim paper to a size slightly larger than the open book cover plus a bit more for the flaps. Fold the long edges to size, then tuck the cover into the flaps.

PAINT, RALPH LAUREN PAINT’S SEA MIST SS46, THE HOME DEPOT. JAPANESE PAPER, THE PAPER PLACE. BIRD, TEATRO VERDE.

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