This book nerd painted her staircase to look like her favorite books
LONDON -- Sometimes, displaying our most beloved books on a shelf just doesn't cut it. And when it comes to doing justice to the extent of our bookwormery, loud and proud is the way forward.
Pippa Branham of Liverpool, UK, decided to go all out with her love of books and paint her staircase with her and her husband's preferred reads.
In a Reddit post, Pippa's husband, Jon, wrote about her masterpiece, which was inspired by a Pinterest post.
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"It took her quite a while and was a project initiated out of a money saving venture to avoid having to splash out on carpet money [and] fitting money (didn't trust me to lay carpet on stairs)," wrote Jon.
"I think this looks 100x better than any carpet," Jon continued.
"I used a tonne of masking tape and painted the treads black with gloss and added a small amount of sand to the mix to make a grip," Pippa told Mashable.
Pippa then painted each stair's base a different color and went from there.
"Our daughter was delighted and would chat with me about the different books asking what they were about," says Pippa, who secretly hopes the stairs will fuel her daughter's affection for literature when she gets older.
"It has made all that upside down and sideways writing and subsequent aches and pains all worthwhile!" she continued.
The staircase features some pretty strong literary contenders, from Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla to J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings saga. And, naturally, Game of Thrones made an appearance.
Here's a glimpse of the full staircase in all its bookworm glory...
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
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