Bookshelf

For the first time in my life, I will finally have a place for my books. Since I was little I knew I wanted to have a library one day. Given the cost of square footage in the bay area, I may have to settle for a wall. One of the things I love about living in the city is the architecture and the way there is room for built-ins.

My new apartment has room for a built-in but doesn’t have one. I plan to put an old baker’s rack instead and use that as my bookshelf.

Now comes the fun….organizing and decorating the bookshelf. I have been reading lots of blogs lately and the new trend seems to be organizing by color. While I don’t think this trend will work for me, it is visually beautiful. I have been going back and forth on mine. I can organize it by genre (cooking, children’s, fiction, law, etc.), by size, or alphabetically. I think I might do a combo of genre and alphabetically. I don’t want it to look over contrived.