See-through bookcases, shelves, and nooks are your best friend.
Browse through tall bookcases, which form a feature wall in each of its 12 bright rooms, then repair to the street-level bar for cocktails.
This is also a book about a scene — the Brooklyn literary thing — in which we meet people through their bookcases: "Borges, Boswell, Bulgakov... marked with yellow 'used' stickers from the Brown bookstore".
"So far so good, nothing has been destroyed but we have had people rifling through our bookcases, looking for clever titles which might be hiding it".
While I spoke to the audience, out of eyesight but not earshot, my wife Tracie followed our then one-year-old as he giggled, speed-crawling through a maze of bookcases.
The hidden space under the bed is accessed through a bookcase, which is opened by pulling on a book.
How to get in: Head through a bookcase door on the left side of Chez Moi, and step down a set of stairs.
I was sorting through my bookcase the other week and deciding which ones to keep or donate, and I came to a disquieting realization: Probably a good half of the books I loved growing up are now out of print.
The showstopper is the Casablanca suite, which has a secret entrance through a bookcase to a private dining room covered in antiqued mirror; that in turn leads to Bar Alta, the hotel's reservation-only cocktail lounge.
Through French doors on one side of a central hall is a parlor with built-in bookcases; through another set of French doors on the other side is the formal living room.
Woodworking offers a great way to earn income through both building and repairing everything from chairs to bookcases.
