Over the time you’ve seen a lot of bookshelves on Freshome, but what I’ve found today is really impressive. I was browsing Flickr and I found this beautiful example of organizing books by color and the smart guy that managed to do it, is user chotda. This is a very good way of changing the whole aspect of a bookshelf with a little bit of creativity. I guess you’ll have to pay more attention to the book’s cover from now on if you want to reproduce that effect and have your own rainbow bookshelf.
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I did that with my shelves for a while and had the worst time locating individual books.
I use this system at home – it actually works! Without realizing most people know which colour and size a given book has. Trust me, it’s quite efficient. And you can always spot a miss placed book
My Dad hired a decorator a few years ago and one of the first things she did was remove the dust covers from all the books and arrange them by color.
It was the best part of his remodel, and it did not cost a dime.
I’ll try and find a reference to this, but I know that ages ago, there was a book store that did this. Apparently, got them written about too!
Okay … I’ll be the asshole here I guess:
I agree that it is absolutely beautiful. A stunning commentary (if you’re one for getting … ‘deep’ and all that) on the relation between knowledge and beauty.
BUT … what a retarded way to have one’s home bookshelves organized. Books are meant to be organized by subject and then, intrasubject, by author. These are, first and foremost, a tool of the mind. Efficency is demanded!
You could always try this out at your local IKEA before attempting it at home.
Must there be 100 assholes that note how impractical organizing books by color is? A child knows that. You aren’t witty. It’s art.
Hmmm, I think I’d like to do this in my apartment. A lot of my books are rarely referenced, so I don’t really need any real order on my shelfs. I’d prefer to look at them randomly, other than the obviously ordered colors.
Man,
I am doing this at home!
*She* (flickr user: chotda) takes amazing captures and I think it’s a wonderful use of colour.
Damn, it is so flipping awesome!
I love it. I am going to do this to my books at home. I rarely try to find a book among them anyway. In fact, I am putting them all up for sale on Amazon so they might as well make they place more attractive while they are here. I was already planning on keeping a spreadsheet with the shelf location of each book for easy mailing once it sells.
Yes. In a library, you’d never find what you needed.
At home though, where you’ve presumably purchased, read, and have some familiarity with your own library, this wouldn’t be that much of a boundary.
With a collection this big, anyway, you should have a shelf list. A shelf list will tell you where to put stuff, anyways.
Notice, though, that she’s got quite a preponderance of pastel, saturated color books.
I’m willing to bet that most book collections would make a pretty drab rainbow.
And again, there’s more than just the rainbow ordering that’s making this look so good – it’s the rainbow ordering in context of this room.
The rainbow books are well-complemented by the paint color, the pillows, the rug, the couch, and probably most importantly, the huge, wide dimensions of the shelf. In your standard skinny, tall bookcase, I’m betting this would look pretty weird and out of place.
This is Photoshopped.
Really . . . how many books are the green at the top and yellow at the bottom . . . and identical shades at that.
Photoshopped.
I think it’s great, and I think most of the people here who are leaving comments take themselves waaaaay too seriously. Lighten up everyone. How is this hurting you?
fun!
this is a truly creative endeavor…
good job.
I love it.
As for practicality: “It is truly useful since it is beautiful.”
i love this. i am trying to do this with my collection as well…
Holy Christ what is wrong with some of these commenters. Have they heard of Paxil? Have they heard of “If you have nothing nice to say…?” Here’s my something not-nice, addressed to the negative commenters: pleeeease get a life.
Seriously, where’s the fire? Must one’s need to find a book be a life-or-death race against time? Maximum efficiency in ordering your shelves doesn’t have to be priority one for anyone. “Books are meant to be organized by subject”?! And here I thought books were meant to be read. Life’s short, pal, but not that short. Many of us would prefer egregiously impractical beauty. It is far from “pointless” or “retarded.”
BEAUTY IS THE POINT. IF LIFE IS SHORT, IT IS FAR TOO SHORT TO SURRENDER BEAUTY TO EFFICIENCY. If the sad, hateful, glass-half-full bean-counters have a problem grasping this simple notion, I hope they keep it to themselves . . . or that they only subject paid professionals to their toxic inner monologues.
I used to do this with my CDs. Only took up a shelf or two though. I like the look.
Anyone who says it will be impossible to find a book either has no visual memory or no idea what a database is.
Anyone who says books don’t come in these colours have clearly not picked up a modern-day, pedagogically-advanced textbook.
I think this is a fantastic idea. I’ve been trying to figure out how to organise my thousands of books for a while now. Of course, I went down the same route as everyone else: organisation by subject. I tried using both the LCC and DDS, and both were horrible for my extensive collection of bioinformatics and medical imaging related books (i.e., tons of books from meds and the life scis combined with loads of CS and tech texts, with many that are both). I’d been so frustrated, I gave up, thinking that maybe I’ll come up with my own little classification system someday. Perhaps I’ll try this instead!
I think this is absolutely gorgeous! I could rock that, because my brain functions in such a manner that I remember the color of the book before I remember the author or the genre. Soooo….yeah. :3
Thank you for posting this! <3
Thats absolutely magnificent..
in every wonder of the world
the faggs that disagree are the idots
that can’t take time to understand beyond the meanings and colors of it all.
and they are just hating because they will probably never amount to anything much less understand the work
and effort put into to such a masterpiece..
and the dick that said autism
no honey you or your mom didn’t do this.
so suck it it’s gorgeous
Check my flow uhhh
get the meaning..?? i won’t test your simple minds
however GORGEOUS IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD..!!
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I can’t wait to do this with my books. This one looks amazing!
I worked in a bookstore for 6 years. Everyone remembers books they are looking for by
the color of the cover anyway!
What a fabuluous ides. Cute dog too.
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