Color Coordination
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Bookcases, for example. I do not understand the purpose of coordinating books by color. Shouldn’t they be ordered by author, or series, or topic? I don’t want a CSS book that is green put next to my Asian cooking book. It makes no sense! I don’t want to look at the green books, or the orange books — I want my cooking books!
Another one that perplexes me is the clothing in the closet thing. I organize my closet by style: sweaters, nice tops, jackets, dress pants, dresses, etc. I can see all the colors in the closet, I want to be able to find a specific piece not necessarily something that is purple. Maybe it’s because I don’t have a ton of clothing, it makes it easier to find what I need.
Do you organize by color? Or do you organize by style, function, etc?
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I organise my books by colour. And yes, it does take longer to find things. But mostly it’s fun! You see stuff you forgot you had, everything looks different next to each other. And I often remember what colour a book is better than I remember author or whatever the theme is I’ve made up for the book…
On the other hand, my cookbooks are in the kitchen, and my craft and other reference books in my craft room/study. So there is not really anything that I need to lay my hands on quickly in the colour-mix.
I think that if there are separate locations for books, then definitely, color coordination would work. Currently I live in a small 620sq ft apartment, so I have room for one bookcase. Color coordinating all my books on one case might make it difficult.
To each his own I suppose. :) Thanks for your thoughts!
I too don’t get the books by color thing. I like the old fashioned library organization of books, by topics, by author etc…but yes it does look interesting, although I like the randomness of color you get with organizing by topics or author.
Yeah, color coordination, I think, works for aesthetics. But as far as function, the color of the books mixing together has a nice, random look.
It’s just the way my brain works. I read and find it faster by color, thou it may take my some time to get a system going. I have all my files separated by topic in different colors. Everything that has to do with money, including bills and bank statements, are yellow, for example. Now, if it’s in the living room and it’s not behind a door or in a drawer, then I’ll put it in an appealing box the same color as the wall. I don’t want to see everything I own at once!
This bookcase looks awesome, but to me it screams chaos. Place back alphabetically, please.