Peter and I have always had a lot of books – mostly reference, because we aren’t really joy readers. And when I do get fiction to read, it’s usually from the library. We have never had a decent bookshelf so our books have lived in boxes and on random shelves. Finally for this house we bought some Ikea Expedit bookshelves for the conference room.

I was trying to decide how to arrange them. Since we don’t read by author it would be pointless to organize that way. We don’t even really know the formal titles of the books we reach for frequently, either – we just know what they look like. So, it seemed of no hindrance to go with an organization method I have seen done many times and always wanted to do – rainbow!

It took about 3 hours to do. We have a LOT of white and black spines, and though it is much less obvious, I ordered those in rainbow too – red letters on the spines first, for example.

We are very happy with the way it turned out; it’s like functional art for the conference room.

I really don’t want to think about taking all the books out when we get around to painting that room, though.