So I took every book off, organized into color coded piles and artfully rearranged them. It didn't quite turn out like the pretty picture. Worst of all, it destroyed my careful organization system. I keep the books organized in clusters based on genre, but then subdivided based on size for aesthetics. It's a careful blend between form and function.
I hated the new color coded blah immediately, but tried to force myself to just get used to the new way. It didn't work.
So I took everything off. Again. And put everything back. Again.
But this time I just breathed a big sigh of relief when I saw my bookshelf back again, not pretty or trendy, but mine, with all my crazy book organizing quirks and all.
Okay, that color-coded bookcase is gorgeous. But, I could probably never do it, because I am kind of in love with the Dewey Decimal system. My own small collection is organized by it. Books are my favorite thing to reorganize, which is probably a good sign for me because I want to be a librarian.
ReplyDeleteI am dyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing to color coordinate my books, so I color coordinated my brother's office's books. It helped my inner OCD person be at rest.
ReplyDeleteI have that same picture in my inspiration files. :) And I color-code my books, haha. How do you organize yours instead?
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly why I can't color coordinate mine, either (apart from the fact that I don't really have a lot of interesting colored books). I have our books arranged by fiction/non fiction/reference. The "classics" fiction shelf is different from the "popular" fiction shelf. NERD ALERT. Of course, we have way too many books right now and a lot of the organization has fallen by the wayside... But still.
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