I know.
I finally did it.
It took me months to even bother but I have....................finally.............................REORGANIZED MY BOOKSHELF *cues party music*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I originally put my books on my shelf, it looked like this:
I finally did it.
It took me months to even bother but I have....................finally.............................REORGANIZED MY BOOKSHELF *cues party music*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I originally put my books on my shelf, it looked like this:
Yeah, I know. A total disaster and some of the books I outgrew so long ago. And that random sideways Three Musketeers....it needed a miracle. So I pulled all the books off my shelf and pulled out the ones I didn't want because I wouldn't read them and they wouldn't add any spectacular beauty to my shelf (I know I shouldn't judge a book by its cover but I kept the Goddess Girls and Candy/Poison Apple books just because they look good). In total, there were exactly 30 books, which I will do a separate post about.
Once I had the ones I wanted to keep, I tried to sort them by color to recreate Christine's rainbow bookshelf tour.
Yeah, that didn't work out. At all. The books were all uneven just like they were in my original bookshelf and I didn't have that many of some colors and a lot of other colors. I'll leave the rainbows to people with a lot more books because that's really what you need.
Once I had the ones I wanted to keep, I tried to sort them by color to recreate Christine's rainbow bookshelf tour.
Yeah, that didn't work out. At all. The books were all uneven just like they were in my original bookshelf and I didn't have that many of some colors and a lot of other colors. I'll leave the rainbows to people with a lot more books because that's really what you need.
The way I organized my books was by height because it looks very neat and clean. I separated all the books by size and each pile was then split by genre. First came contemporary, then supernatural, followed by fantasy with some dystopian. For the series, I didn't like the idea of splitting them just because they were a different height, so I just put those series on the end.
For some shelves, I found I had really few books, so I chose a book with a really nice cover and placed it so that the cover was facing the front. Not only does this act like a spacer, giving the illusion of more books, but it also adds visual interest by giving a variance from just spines. I also added some parts of a pottery piece I made a few months ago just to add a rustic feel and make the space feel less empty. Things like clay and FAKE candles give some color and really draw your attention to the books.
For the series with books that had a considerable size difference, I put the smaller ones on display. Doing something similar if you want 2 sizes on a shelf works well, because the size difference isn't as noticeable. Just as a note, I did get Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes after I took these pictures and it is sideways underneath all the Riordan books and I did move Throne of Fire to the other side of the Heroes of Olympus books.
I actually had 3 different sizes on this shelf. I kept the larger sizes that barely fit on the shelf sideways (and the last stack are all my mother's books that she wanted me to store). I also kept the really small books there because they added variance to the side-stacked books.
I also had this little guy (which is a small box) on my counter and added it to the top of my short stack of books to give the illusion of taller books.
The entire process of reorganizing my books took me about an hour, including photography. It was actually really fun to do and I really like how it turned out. It looks a lot more organized, yet whimsical compared to what my books used to look like. After this photo shoot, I did actually take all the price stickers off my books, just in case you think they look as bad as I think they do. Please tell me if you like the transformation and if you thought any of my tips for reorganization were helpful. I really liked incorporating photos into this and the style of this post. If you want me to do more things like this, let me know in the comments section.
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I'll talk to you guys soon,
Caramel