Decorating With Colored Books: Guest Project

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Megan at Honey Were Home linked up last week.  She loves reading and decided to do some decorating with colored books to make things more fun and interesting to look at.

My husband and I both love reading, and accordingly, have amassed quite a collection of books over the years.  We made sure when designing our new house to have lots of built-in bookcases to house all of our books.  When we moved, I swear most of our boxes were filled with books.  I am definitely a “real book” reader- haven’t even tried the Kimble or whatever its called because I just love the feel of a book in my hand and, when I read in bed, I just prefer holding an actual book and turning the pages.  Old-fashioned? Probably, but I like it that way. 

And I love decorating with books.  You can tell a lot by a person by the books they read.  In my house, you would guess I’m into God/religion/spirituality, decor, parenting/babies, fashion, and cooking.  My husband’s books are all about business, law, and history. 

I’ve gotten a lot of inspiration for decorating with books from blogland and I especially love those “rainbow” bookshelves and wanted to try my hand at it.  I’m pretty familiar with my books, so I’m sure I won’t have any trouble locating them even though they aren’t categorized by subject. 

Here’s my rainbow bookshelf in the upstairs hallway.  All I did was group the books into rainbow order by their spines and then arrange them on the shelf.   I reworked it a couple of times, and ended up with this:

Here’s the close up:

     

Here are a few other places in my home that I’ve used books as decor. 

Living Room

 

Kitchen

  

James’ Nursery

 

   

  Here are some of my inspiration images:

*Flicker via Chotda

Eccentric Scholar via Apartment Therapy

   

*Malene Charles & Christine Martinez (both via Design Sponge)

*Erin Gates former home.  Elements of Style                

 

*Kelly Doust via Design Sponge      

*Leah Richardson 

                 *David Jimenez

*J Crew

*First image via science blogs.


That's a lot of books.  I love the way the decorating with colored books turned out!