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Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about tidy bookshelves.
Are your bookshelves strictly books only? Or have knick-knacks invaded? Do your shelves also shelve DVDs? Photos? Why not snap a photo €“ I’m sure we all like to spy on other’s shelves!
My bookshelves are not tidy.
Since we’ve moved house I’ve only unpacked a few boxes of books, so the bookshelves are mainly empty, except for those that have odds and ends dumped on them temporarily. One bookcase is nearly full. This holds unread books:
On the top are a set of three little notebooks, a wooden teddy bear with its hands covering its eyes and a wooden cat peering down over the bookcase. I put these there by chance as I unpacked them, but they are quite representative of my interests – books, bears and cats. The guitar belongs to my husband.
The top two shelves are double shelved, there is a coffee tin holding coloured pencils on the third shelf and a pile of waymark discs (oops, wonder where they came from?) and on the bottom shelf there are a few odd things – a toy rabbit (this belonged to my sister), a photoframe (this belonged to my mother-in-law) and a pile of Alphapuzzle books (I’m addicted to Alphapuzzles, aka Codewords). Eventually the bottom shelf will just hold books.
The other boxes I’ve unpacked held both fiction and non-fiction and for the time being they’re on the shelves just as they came out of the boxes, in no particular order at all. Other non-book items have found their way onto some of the shelves – CDs, speakers and my mother’s sewing box, etc. In other words it’s all a bit of lucky dip.
The remaining boxes of books are spread throughout the house. Some unopened …
and some opened.
One day I’ll get organised!
BooksPlease 
Having moved, you have such a great opportunity to have your shelves exactly the way you want them – to start fresh. How fun!
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This is a timely post for me as my husband has offered/promised me new bookshelves in our bedroom and I need to decide what I want–long shelves on brackets, an enclosed structure, an array of different shelves of varying length and height, etc. I’m going with the latter idea, I think, and then I can add photos, knickknacks, busts of authors, whatever as the mood strikes and not be locked into uniformity.
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Thanks for sharing. Dare I ask about your supply of Big Wipes?
By way of response, here is my DES collection:
http://www.destevenson.org/dalyghtdesbooks.html
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Looks pretty good for having just moved! I myself pack my books in pretty tightly, but like to display photos and “bits and pieces.”
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Nan, arranging books is so enjoyable, but very time-consuming – and there are so many other things to sort out at the moment!
JaneGS, part of the difficulty with bookcases is that books are all such different shapes and sizes. Mine have adjustable shelves to accommodate both big and small books.
SusanD – ah, the “Big Wipes”! I can’t tell you what they were originally because these were boxes supplied by the removal company.
Karen, thank you. I like to display photos too.
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