I have lived with book filled walls for years. This has always been my design choice. And in Dewey Decimal order with separate shelves for fiction, divided by genre ....
It meets my two decade public librarian ability to retrieve any book instantly. I cringe at scenes of bookshelves arranged by color. Like furniture for disabled users, use precedes aesthetics.
It would be my dream to organize my books in like fashion, but I pretty much used up all my energy in past years cataloging my DVD collection. Both are fractured collections in various shelving units in different rooms, and some books taking up unused nooks here or there or stored temporarily in my car. Oh to be organized!
As far as design fashion, the inside of my house looks like a cross between a natural history museum and an antique/thrift shop, so books and disks have to compete for shelf space.
I forget which movie but apparently its a "decor" favored by Americans of Indian origin in affluent neighbirhoods in NJ. Except. The books are empty shells (sort of like the ones trending at Michaels now except these are porcelain or painted wood)!
I have lived with book filled walls for years. This has always been my design choice. And in Dewey Decimal order with separate shelves for fiction, divided by genre ....
I wonder if Dewey org would meet interior design standards?
It meets my two decade public librarian ability to retrieve any book instantly. I cringe at scenes of bookshelves arranged by color. Like furniture for disabled users, use precedes aesthetics.
It would be my dream to organize my books in like fashion, but I pretty much used up all my energy in past years cataloging my DVD collection. Both are fractured collections in various shelving units in different rooms, and some books taking up unused nooks here or there or stored temporarily in my car. Oh to be organized!
As far as design fashion, the inside of my house looks like a cross between a natural history museum and an antique/thrift shop, so books and disks have to compete for shelf space.
I forget which movie but apparently its a "decor" favored by Americans of Indian origin in affluent neighbirhoods in NJ. Except. The books are empty shells (sort of like the ones trending at Michaels now except these are porcelain or painted wood)!
It reminds me of coffee shops in the 90s lining their walls with books that no one had read and no one will ever read. Gross.
Yet if you examined the volumes, there was an occasional treasure.
once I did..in a lobby of a hotel, waiting for someone but ti wa a logn wait.