Other color-ordered bookshelves

Or, as I keep calling it, "rainbow order," which sounds like the kind of thing I would have named my secret club when I was eight.

This photo from Apartment Therapy really got under my skin and was the inspiration for tackling my own shelves:

Crazy Aunt Purl did it a while ago.

Thanks to Alex, I can show you these too:
Random dude (or dudette?) with gorgeous built-in shelves (and no black or white books? what gives?)

This is the bookstore that Silvia mentioned in the comments and Alex handily tracked down. Thanks guys!

Comments

[Zoe Arcidiacono]

Does this get under your skin in a bad way? As in subject order is way superior? Because how are you supposed to find that cookbook because you can't remember the color of the book-jacket?

[Natalie]

This makes me twitch, it really does. I like to have my books all nice and alphabetical by author. Although they're currently shoved wherever because we haven't gotten around to reorganizing them after we moved...in January. The only thing that's organized is the non-fiction, and that's organized roughly by subject on the non-fiction bookcase.

[Marcy]

I love the concept, but I could no way live with my thousands of books organized by color. That'd just be crazy-making. But just one bookshelf, perhaps? Hmmmm. Possible.

My sister-in-law used to arrange the laundry on the clothesline by color. :D

[Natalie B]

oooo... just the type of thing an obsessive compulsive like me would you to procrastinate from just about anything! sooo pretty

[carolyn]

"rainbow order" is definitely what i would call it too. :)

it would killl me to separate books by some particular author that i love though. i NEED those (the works by a particular author) to be together.