Library on the Home Tour

The library was part of the Fall Home Tour, put on by the Optimist Club of Mitchell and Mitchell and Area Community Outreach. Decorating was done by Mary Helen Van Loon. All the chairs pictured belong to the library but the rest of the accessories were borrowed from Dublin Mercantile. I have a fast internet connection and lots of pictures, so enjoy your virtual tour.

Decorated magazine alcove. The floral arrangement from Interior Expectations welcomed us into our new space.

Bay window seating arrangement in adult fiction area.

Display on stairway landing containing portrait of Andrew Carnegie, who had contributed the money to build the library in Mitchell in 1910. The reason this library is called a 'Carnegie Library'.

Temporary seating area in the junior fiction section. The tables for the junior and young adult area will be arriving shortly.

This is a mock-up of the window bench that is to be built in the young adult seating area.

Turning around, we see the shelving in the young adult section. Finally, room to expand the collection.

We can now make use of the bay windows as comfy seating areas instead of having them filled with computer equipment.

The library lion has a nice corner in the children's library.

Chair, bear and clock.

Even the kitchen was decorated.

Window display featuring Queen Elizabeth and our coworker Judy Bauer who died in 2001.