The Plaid Pladd

I’ve always wanted to rearrange my books by color. Especially when someone comes to the library and asks something along the lines of “I can’t remember the title or the author or what it’s about but the color is dark blue”. Unfortunately, I can’t rearrange the whole library by color (amazing April Fool’s Day prank idea, though), but I can do my bookshelves!

A lot of my books are still in boxes in a closet at home, but Steven brought most of his so we still have a lot here. Luckily Steven also brought some sizable bookshelves that he made, which is where most of our books live; the rest are in stacks in Steven’s office upstairs. Here is what the bookshelves looked like before:

Vaguely arranged by subject/author

So I took everything down and made stacks of colors, generally following good old ROY G BIV, except adding white on one side and brown, black, and gray on the other.

It doesn't really look like a rainbow because I was arranging by spine color, not cover color

Then, after giving everything a quick dust, Tra-la!:

Turns out, black is our most predominant book color

I noticed most of those were Steven’s science fiction books, and some Penguin Classics as well. Plus a lot of my composition books, natch.

The light in our living room is kind of weird, so you may have to trust me on how awesome it looks in person

At first I was really bothered about shades and spines with more than one color, but when you step back and look at it as the whole, that stuff doesn’t matter as much. I’m really happy with how it turned out!! You should totes try this is you have enough time/books.