Whitestripe Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Our bookshelves say that someone in our house is really into poetry , that we are encouraging our children to be readers and that most of our fiction comes from the library. It also says that we are sloppy and disorganized and that the camera on my phone sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inkdaub Posted May 31, 2011 Share Posted May 31, 2011 My shelves look like Lany's 'three-b' shelf. The books are sortof stacked on top of each other after a single attempt at order was made. It's about 50/50 paperback to hardback. The to-be-reads had a section of their own but have managed to crawl all over the shelves at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestripe Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Reviving this thread simply because I am too much in love not to share. Our built-ins are finally finished! And they are beautiful. The cat likes them too. She really does. Now we just have to put the rest of the books on the shelves and move the ugly file cabinet out of the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookyperm Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Very Jealous Lady Whitestripe very very jealous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammy Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Reviving this thread simply because I am too much in love not to share. Our built-ins are finally finished! And they are beautiful. The cat likes them too. She really does. Now we just have to put the rest of the books on the shelves and move the ugly file cabinet out of the way. Nice! I wish I had that big a bookcase so mine weren't so unorganized. I love built-ins though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The BlackWolf Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 Wow Lady Whitestripe, that looks amazing! One day, one day... I desperately need more bookcases (plural). Just now a majority of my books are stacked in corners of rooms, spilling out from everywhere you look. Until I move home I don't know how much space I'm going to have so don't want to buy shelves yet - so stacks by author / piles vaguely by genre it is for now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitestripe Posted September 19, 2011 Share Posted September 19, 2011 I desperately need more bookcases (plural). Just now a majority of my books are stacked in corners of rooms, spilling out from everywhere you look. Until I move home I don't know how much space I'm going to have so don't want to buy shelves yet - so stacks by author / piles vaguely by genre it is for now! That's what happened to us. Our books were spilling out of the crappy IKEA bookshelves we had and we could not find replacements that we liked. One night at a dinner party, one of the guests mentioned that he was a carpenter. We asked if he could slot us in. He did and now we have these beautiful bookcases (after about an eight month wait!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lummel Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Did the cat come with the bookshelves? I find it hard to imagine you had it already it looks such a natural reader down there amongst the books! Nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stego Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Nice! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datepalm Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I kind of vaguely admire those willing to organise bookshelves by colour, because I'd probably snap and go crazy. I'm gonna assume you need a really good memory to tolerate the total lack of actual organization involved in what is at best a vanity project. Though they do look very cool. I did it a few months back, but it was simply out of boredom and procrastination. (I was studying for calculus and bouncing off the walls by then.) It lt looked neat for a bit, but had it's flaws - like the top shelf was all white-grey-beige and looked really dull, and then I was boggled by Otherland - the dominant color, by spinal acerage, is black, and yet they're clearly color coded. I gave up at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lannes Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 It says i have more books than I know what do with and that more cinder blocks and 2x12's are needed to expand said bookshelves. That will make a nice Winter project, I reckon... Taken as a whole, we have about 200 feet of book shelves and need about another 80 to get everything shelved. As to what's on those shelves- 30% history and non-fiction, 50% fantasy and sci fi and 20% mysteries, general fiction, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lummel Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Ha, another website about bookshelves.I like the one with the greyhound like dog sprawled on the floor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apoapsis Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 As someone who very rarely keeps books after having read them, I hope this idea of judging people's personality from their bookshelves doesn't spread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lock67ca Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 My bookcase is telling me that it's time to get a new one because I've started doubling up on the shelspace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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