my rainbow shelves

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my rainbow shelves

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1omargosh
Mai 14, 2016, 6:08 pm

Once upon a time, this was my living room ( / library / office / dining room ... it was a smallish place). The pictures here link to a bigger version.









It was fun and looked neat (well, for these photos, all the books with multicolored spines that were otherwise double-stacked behind the rainbow were temporarily behind the camera or in the bedroom, haha), but it was impossible to find stuff if I didn't remember what color the spine was. Sadly, the books (and the shelves ... man, I love my shelves) are currently in boxes in storage, where they don't look as happy.

2pokarekareana
Mai 14, 2016, 6:33 pm

Beautiful! It looks great with the greenery.

32wonderY
Mai 14, 2016, 8:48 pm

And the lighting! Wow! Nice to know someone who actually did that and it came off so brilliantly.

4SylviaC
Mai 14, 2016, 10:15 pm

That's impressive!

5Mweb
Mai 15, 2016, 10:04 am

Wow I love the look. I hope you can soon have your shelves and books back out of storage

6Ennas
Mai 16, 2016, 8:09 am

Wow!

7abbottthomas
Mai 16, 2016, 10:36 am

Books do furnish a room! One thing that occurs to me about your former arrangement is that you had your red/orange books nearest the window. In my experience sunlight fades red/orange/yellow covers more than green/blue/purple. The arrangement probably does look better the way you had it, though.

8Keeline
Mai 16, 2016, 3:30 pm

I see decorator images like this online. You could probably sell or otherwise offer the photos for this use. These are very attractive.

At the same time, I can readily see why it would be very hard to find a book. I had a similar experience at The Last Bookstore in downtown Los Angeles. They had a section arranged by color. It was very hard to train the eye to look for titles among them. It would only be really useful for set decorators who were looking for books of a color where they'd pay so much per yard.

Perhaps if your LT catalog had colors (Crayola color names? Web colors? Pantone?) one could find books in this kind of scenario.

James

9omargosh
Mai 22, 2016, 10:37 pm

Thanks for all the compliments!

>7 abbottthomas: Fortunately for the books, most of the time the room wasn't this illuminated (I usually had the blinds and curtain drawn). But I will definitely heed your advice if I do this again in the future.

>8 Keeline: At one point I considered trying to make some color-based tagging system, but then I thought about the fact that I don't even have all the normal tags I'd like to put on my books yet. :-)

10bestem
Mai 22, 2016, 11:52 pm

>1 omargosh: it was impossible to find stuff if I didn't remember what color the spine was.

I'd imagine you found a lot more books you'd forgotten about, when you were searching for a specific book, though. Not as good a system for finding the book you know you want, but a great system for finding the book you didn't know you wanted.

11omargosh
Mai 23, 2016, 12:14 am

Yes, great for finding yet another book that looks oh-so-interesting-I-should-definitely-read-it-right-now, haha.