Bookcase makes it work. Bookcase needs more books!

Once you are finished and paint the door it will look lovely.

It is a playful layout and design and think the asymmetry is fine.

Imo it is perfect as is.

IMO the bookcase is sort of blocking the doorway . But I think the glass is fine as it is but I would paint the door one of those colors

You don't have symmetry but you have balance. So to me it works.

I think it's preferable with the two different colors.

You can do something fun with the door with the introduction of the glass. It could be painted to add character. If you are crafty you could do faux graining or something. Sometimes the faux graining in the 19th c. was patently fake looking because people wanted to show that they could hire a decorative painter.

@mytwo cents

Yes it needs more books but as an part time author Ii only finish 3-4 novels per year. That means it is going to be quite awhile before i fill the bookcase. 😀

I have got ten published novels so far so while i have yet to fully renovate a 1940 Victoruan home, I have managed to knock a published novel or two off my bucket list. (insert slow-clap here) (very slow clap).

For some reason a lot of the other stained glass windows use small squares in their design, so i tried doing the same thing with this window.

i guess it worked after all

That staircse wall is spectacular!

Awwww thanks, but it is a work in progress.

As i said earlier i write novels but we appreciate the creative arts. Okay, not music, neither one of us likes mysic at all, but books and paintings we love. We only moved in a few months ago, but want to use the staircase as a gallery with paintings tastefully arranged.

As a side note i like the Pre-Rapheal era and my girlfriend likes the Impressionist era.

Do you have your gallery wall up yet? I would love to see it. Sounds beautiful.

The glass over the door is just right (I honestly think it would not look all that great if both panes were blue) but the colour of the door is wrong as is the panelling design. If you want it to tie in with the book case and staircase it needs to be repainted in that dark grey because as it stands the beige just looks awkward.

The frame around the door and transom is more stark 1930s but the spindles on the staircase are much more elaborate and older style. (Are they replacements?)

You could look at reframing the door (or somehow adding a thin layer of something less stark) to make it more sympathetic to the staircase.

@colleenoz

I fully agree. I made a mistake of using boards over the framing of the door instead of drywall.

I was thinking of getting flutted trim and corner rosette blocks to make the door frame pop better. I was thinking of painting the outer parts of the door in white with gray panels to match the bookshelves of the library.

Hi, it may have been an accident but it works perfectly fine, finishing up the whole space painting the doors setting up the bookshelf and adding decor will make it look even better.

@ilikefriday

I am sorry, but it is what we hope to do and have not done yet. We also want to get the right works of art in the right sizes. We just moved here a few months ago.

My favorite work of art is John Colliers Lady Godiva, loving the story of her brazenly standing up for the less fortunate, and the painting itself. But admit i go to church so I am not sure how appropriate it is to have that painting prominently displayed in my house.

What are your thoughts on that, if you don’t mind me asking? Is John Colliers Lady Godiva too suggestive?

This is what the inside of the transom lite looks like, although i have not even started finishing this side of it.

I just looked it up. LOL. Love it! I say go for it. It sparks conversation.

I hate taxes!

Will suggest replacing your door. The traditional colonial 6 panel door doest seem to go well with the trim and the transom. Wood also suggest painting the door the same color as the surrounding trim. As far as the stained glass in the transom I'm thinking the configuration of the lites in the transom provides enough interest and would suggest the glass all be the same color. Just my thoughts. Good luck!

I have been moving forward with this project bit by bit. i got other stuff done elsewhere in the house, but kept this job moving forward.

I painted the door white and then the palels gray to match the bookshelves. I also added flutted trim to add depth and to match the rest of the doors in the house. Finally i organized our library, but my topic and not the Dewey Decimal System. 😀