If you've been around here before, you know that I have had a wonderful, life-long relationship with books. I even was lucky enough to have married a man who loves books and so when we united, so did our libraries.
To the point where we designated a singular room to become our own Home Library. This means we have shelves of books in one room, and that means we had to organize these books. There are a myriad of ways to organize books: Alphabetical, color coordinated, based on genre etc. Today I will share with you how we organized our library of books.
First, the Children's Books. We store these books on the shorter shelves farther away from the adult books and created a fun kid's corner, I gathered up all of our cardboard and picture books and then piled them into colors (based on their spine, as that is what is showing when they're all lined up). Then I arranged them in rainbow order-ish (white, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple) The books that were too large to stand upright I placed at the end stacked horizontally (they act as a great bookend) The rainbow colors are not only attractive to the eye, but it's easier for smaller children to match a color when it is time for cleanup.
Older Kid/YA. Chris and I kept a good portion of books from our childhood and young adolescence. These are kept on our other shorter shelves. There's really no particular order to them, except that I tried my best to order them by age group. Younger audience is towards the bottom and more Teenage audience is toward the top. Which blends nicely into the flow of our final shelf.
The tall shelf is home to all of our adult books. The top shelf is home to the "classics": Jane Austen, Homer, Shakespeare. The second shelf hosts our marriage/family/self-improvement books and devotionals. The third shelf has a continuation from the second and then turns into Romance novels. The fourth shelf is solely Harry Potter editions. The fifth shelf finishes the romance category and blends into the bottom shelf which has our Sci-Fi and Fantasy category. And like I mentioned that blends into our YA/ Older kid shelves.