Sparsely decorated bookshelf that my realtor made me do.
There’s nothing like a public
proclamation that you’re going to do something to make you, well, do it.
A few months back I grandly
proclaimed that I was going to color code my bookshelves, style them up in a
way that would make Houzz.com proud. (Have you checked out the houzz site? It
is home decorating crack. Positively addicting and tough on the pocketbook
because you will want to redecorate every room in your house once you check it
out. But on the plus side, houzz.com addiction has no negative health repercussions
and, despite frequent use, you get to keep all your teeth.)
So I said I was going to color
code my bookshelves, then I went and moved to a new house that has no
bookshelves. But I now have a bookshelf (actually, it’s that credenza that I
dumpster dove out of the alley last year), and I finally had time to style it
up.
The process is still underway as
I need to get some cute tchotchkes to intersperse among my favorite titles, but
the color coding made such a huge impact that I had to share it immediately.
A color coded bookshelf is a
cheap and easy way to cozy up a room immediately. I recommend it, even if you
don’t have a million books stashed in various boxes. In most towns the public
library has an annual sale where you can buy dozens of books for hardly any
cash. Hit the sale, and buy a bunch of books with spines of different colors.
Then get yourself a bookshelf. It doesn’t even need to be a nice one. Outfits
like walmart.com will deliver one to your door!
Once you style your bookshelf up,
it transforms this corner of your house into a cozy library where you can
lounge and do nothing more literary than peruse “In Style” magazine. Lotta look
for little lucre.
Try it, you’ll like it! Or at the
very least, check out houzz.com which has dozens of pictures of rooms decorated
in every style imaginable. (Click this link to go to houzz.com.)
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