via Design Sponge (home of Fiona Douglas)
I’m still dragging a bit and this is just the perfect balance of bright and cheerful to pick up my spirits. I love how perfectly the pillows on the chair coordinate with the colour-blocked bookshelves next to them – that kind of attention to detail makes a room so much more perfect and enjoyable to be in (or, in this case, look at).
The Captive Reader 
Just fabulous. Seeing Out Of India, I have been listening to The Far Pavilions on radio 4 here, which has made me want to read it.
Nice! I can’t quite give myself over to that color-blocking theme, but I like to see other examples.
Most attractive, but how does one locate a book if it is filed according to colour? Yes, you might remember the titles of all your green Viragos or grey Persephones, even perhaps orange Penguins, but other books might remain a total mystery! I try and keep my books in strict alphabetical order (OK, sometimes this can’t work because of height, and a tall book has to be placed out of order elsewhere) but perhaps this reader has only these shelves and therefore it wouldn’t take too long to locate a book. If he or she had shelves in every room in the house, it might take just that little bit longer!
I agree, Margaret, that shelving by size and colour might mean it would take longer to find a book.
Then it occurred to me it would mean tripping over all kinds of unexpected, even forgotten, books along the way. Kind of like how I get lost in a dictionary en route to the desired word.
Still, I’m strictly a sort-the-way-they-demand-to-be-sorted bookie.
I love the white shelves with their color splashes — I still couldn’t file mine this way, but this looks very bright, warm, and inviting. Actually, it screams summer at me, which at this point, I’m ready for! 🙂 Hope you are feeling better soon!
This is actually me – I don’t know why the computer occasionally uses my “reading longhorn” name, but I have a new one that I’m getting used to. Things high-tech are great mysteries to me! 🙂
I was just reading on another blog about a new paperback edition that uses a gorgeous range of colors…and I was thinking that decorators would go crazy picking the colors they wanted on the shelves! 🙂 This would never work for me as a reader, but it is tempting and so pretty.
I once saw, long ago in a magazine, books which had been wrapped in white paper with just their titles written (if I recall, with a ‘gold’ pen) on the spine … yes they looked attractive, ultra chic, but somehow not for me.
I think it’s very beautiful!! Thanks for posting!!!!
I’ve got to stop looking at these posts because they make me so jealous. What I wouldn’t give for bookshelves!
I’m not such a fan of colour coordinated books, but love how deep those shelves appear to be!
Do others tip their heads sideways, too, and try and read the titles? However, I didn’t have to tip my head this time to see Scottish Art in the pile on the floor – snap, goddit!
(When bookshelves appear in magazines I have been known to take a magnifying glass to the titles …)
I’ve just finished reading and enjoying The Hundred-foot Journey by Richard Morais. A wonderful tale about Hassan Haji who journeys from India to France and becomes a famous chef. It has wonderful evocations of Indian and French food and restaurants.
If you’re into colour themed book shelves it has a lovely cover too.
It’s so pretty! I’m too compulsive to have my books this way – I can’t imagine having books from a same series being on different shelves! – but I love seeing pictures of color-organized shelves!
Love, love, love this one!
I am not showing my wife this one. We have “discussions” about organizing my bookshelves according to functionality(me) and artistic interior design (her).