Styling Bookcases

  Try these simple tips below to help you with styling your bookcases:

  • The first step in the process is to sort the books into categories. This is going to be different for everyone. It will depend on what you read.
  • The second step is to re-shelve the books in their categories so that when the client is looking for a book they will be able to find it by starting at that category location.
  • Step three is to add all the little knickknacks, treasures, photos, and memorabilia to the empty spaces. We try to partner the stuff with the type of books on the shelf. This especially makes the book storage much more homey and personal and less like a library. You can really tell a lot about people when examining their books.

Don’t forget to leave white space. It’s important to keep about a quarter of the space free of books (this is where you add the personal stuff) to make it feel open and inviting.

 

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Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

Janet Schiesl

Janet Schiesl

Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.

She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.

Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.

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