English Countryside · Study Nook: Tucked Under the Stairs

A workspace created from an odd-shaped space. It is located under the stairs, with the ceiling sloping down with the steps, reaching a minimum height where one can only sit. A narrow old pine desk is fitted in, its surface scrubbed to a natural wood color; it is piled with letters, an adjustable old iron desk lamp, a ceramic cup holding pens, and a stack of books. Three walls are filled with shelves of varying sizes, decreasing along the slope, painted grey-green and crammed with books—both horizontal and vertical, some with their spines facing outwards. A Windsor chair. Several postcards and a hand-drawn garden plan are tacked to the wall. Avoid: making the space a square, independent study, using matching modern office furniture, arranging books neatly by size and color, clearing the desk.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個利用畸零空間做出來的工作角。位置在樓梯下方,天花隨著階梯斜下來,最低處只能坐著。一張窄的舊松木桌嵌進去,桌面是刷洗過的原木色;上面堆著信件、一盞可調的舊鐵桌燈、一個裝筆的陶杯與一疊書。三面牆做滿了層架,尺寸各不相同順著斜面遞減,漆成灰綠並塞滿了書——橫的直的都有,書口朝外的也有。一張溫莎椅。牆上釘著幾張明信片與一張手繪的花園規劃。避免:把空間做成方正的獨立書房、使用成套的現代辦公家具、把書按尺寸顏色排列整齊、讓桌面清空。