ADD OCD DIY? Obsessively Organized-by-Color Bookshelves

By Queuebot in Home & Garden on Feb 19, 2009 at 7:28 pm

Call it art, call it obsession, but the results are a rainbow of awesome to be sure. Some of these were done as personal pet projects but one in particular involved the reorganization of an entire store to fit into one big color spectrum of books. Practical? Perhaps not. Appealing? On an aesthetic level: absolutely.

Some of us are more particular about the appearance of our interiors than others – perhaps to a fault. Sick of seeing your books sloppily organized by type, or, worse yet, having them randomly disorganized across a series of bookcases? Sorting your favorite volumes by color may just satisfy that too-organized part of yourself.

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  1. sw
    Feb 19th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    I have to admit, I sort my books by color. I had to stop though, lest i seem entirely ocd.

  2. Rowdysmom
    Feb 19th, 2009 at 8:16 pm

    I don’t do books….but I sort all my son’s, and my husband’s and my closets by color.

  3. BethSwan
    Feb 19th, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    Organize them by color AND topic. I used book-covers made from watercolor paper. It turned out pretty cool and I didn’t have to sacrifice my organization compulsion to have my rainbows. They make stick-on colored film for book-covering material too. :)

  4. Chad
    Feb 19th, 2009 at 9:29 pm

    I love this stuff! My son and I arranged his Dr. Seuss books by color, and you blogged about it 51 weeks ago tomorrow.

    http://www.neatorama.com/2008/02/27/chormatically-arranged-dr-seuss-bo oks/

    And yes, the hyper-organization does give a warm tingly feeling!

  5. dan smith
    Feb 20th, 2009 at 12:10 am

    old news yo

    2007 on neatorama! that’s a long time ago

  6. Dewey
    Feb 20th, 2009 at 2:05 am

    The magpie in me admires the pretty colours, but the librarian in me shudders at the horror of it all.

  7. Skipweasel
    Feb 20th, 2009 at 6:57 am

    ~”I read a book once. Green, it was.” – Heslop from the BBC TV series Porridge.

  8. Galinda
    Feb 20th, 2009 at 8:18 am

    This reminds me of shopping at Goodwill Stores (the ones around me anyway). The clothes are organized by gender and type (pants, tops, etc) but then also by color! It makes shopping there doubly exciting – a great deal on clothes AND its pretty!

  9. Leif
    Feb 20th, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    Yep…I organize my cds by colour.
    Don’t judge me. It looks good.

  10. renderanything
    Feb 21st, 2009 at 8:31 pm

    I think you’d probably get used to it after a while. It would be especially helpful if you had a system to catalogue titles by colour. Old Man and the Sea? Yeah, it’s in the mauve section.


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