Image courtesy of RobAroundBooks.

If I lived in the forest – and believe me, sometimes life in NYC makes you crave a solitary log cabin far away from civilization – this would be a priority project.

Seen on the streets of Berlin, this is a book case carved out of solid tree trunks. We found the link on a very cool site called Rob Around Books, a blog dedicated to a love of books. (My inner nerd did a dance.) One particular comment on the post caught my eye, saying “I want one in my garden.”

I mean, a garden would be great but that’s a dream this Queens girl dare not dream.  But a BOOKCASE IN THE GARDEN? MADE OF TREES? That’s something to covet.

The author also poses one question that would need to be answered, which is “Is there a heavy plastic covering the niches? If so, how do they move?”  Which is a great question because if they don’t move, perhaps this isn’t a functional bookcase at all, but rather, an art installation. Either way, it’s incredibly cool – and in another life in which I live in the woods and own a saw, I would make one for myself, in which the covers do come off and me and the woodland fairies sit out and read all day in the sun.