djnekokittie's Profile

San Francisco, I'm there!

As an English teacher and life long book lover and collector, I have always arranged my books by genre, and then author. I saw a post on Design Sponge* last year and really liked how it looked, so I decided to abandon my life long method and go for it. Even though I was afraid that I wouldn't ever be able to find anything again.

I have almost 500 books of various shapes and sized and I think it looks awesome. It fills up most of a wall. I have them arranged not only by color, but for the black and white books, arranged by the color of the text on the spine. I know it sounds crazy, but I always get compliments when people come over and it has made my bookshelf so much more fun to look at (and I can still find all of my books).

I am surprised to see so many offended people. I guess to each their own.