Reorganizing My Shelves: A Journey of Ambiance and Joy

I must admit that I was not prepared for how much time it would take to reorganize my shelves. I had calculated everything with precision, including every light and shelf, but somehow, I ran out of wire, which meant that I had to rewire the last portion of the shelf on this side. But to my surprise, it fit perfectly, and now I'm enjoying the ambiance lighting that my office was missing.

The process was time-consuming, but ultimately worth it. It feels like a 180 to what I had before. The system itself serves the purpose of what I'm trying to do for the next year much better than what I had before. As I step into my office now, every single day feels different. A couple of weeks ago, when I was walking into the office, all I could see were the shelves. Now, it's like a new world has been created. I'm feeling inspired to film and use this as a background and try different things and again read different books.

One of the most exciting aspects of reorganizing my shelves is the TBRs (To Be Read) section. With the new system, I can now spot titles that I wasn't paying attention to before because they're more visible now. It's like having a treasure trove of unread books at my fingertips. My goal is to read through most of my unread books by the end of 2025, and with this new setup, I'm confident that I'll be able to achieve it.

The process of reorganizing my shelves was not without its challenges, but in the end, it was all worth it. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders, and now I can enjoy my office in a way that I never could before. It's amazing how something as simple as reorganizing shelves can bring so much joy to one's life.

My Experience with Organizing Shelves

I'm often asked about my system for organizing my shelves, so I thought it would be helpful to share a little bit of what works for me. First and foremost, I separate my books into two main categories: "red" (books that are currently being read or have been recently finished) and "unread". This makes it easy for me to keep track of which books I've started but haven't finished yet.

I also use a system of colors and labels to categorize my books on the shelves. For example, I have a specific color scheme for my "red" section, while my "unread" section has its own unique label. This makes it easy to scan the shelves and see which books need to be read next.

In terms of shelf organization, I use a combination of books with similar colors or themes on adjacent shelves. For example, all the science fiction books are grouped together on one side, while all the romance novels are on the other side. This creates a visual sense of order and makes it easy for me to find what I'm looking for.

My Shelf Organization Process

Reorganizing my shelves was not just about putting books on shelves; it was also about creating a system that would serve me well over time. For months, I had been thinking about how I wanted to organize my bookshelves, and finally, the time came to put my plan into action.

The first step was to clear everything off the shelves and sort the books into categories. This took a while, but it was worth it in the end. Next, I started categorizing the books using colors and labels. For example, I have a specific color scheme for my "red" section, while my "unread" section has its own unique label.

Once the books were sorted and labeled, it was time to start building the shelves again. This is where things got tricky – I had calculated every light and shelf, but somehow, I ran out of wire, which meant that I had to rewire the last portion of the shelf on this side. However, to my surprise, it fit perfectly, and now I'm enjoying the ambiance lighting that my office was missing.

After the shelves were built, it was time to start adding the books back in. This is where the system really came together – by grouping similar books together on adjacent shelves, I created a visual sense of order that makes it easy for me to find what I'm looking for.

The Result: A New World of Reading

In the end, reorganizing my shelves has opened up a whole new world of reading for me. With my new system in place, I can now spot titles that I wasn't paying attention to before because they're more visible now. It's like having a treasure trove of unread books at my fingertips.

My goal is to read through most of my unread books by the end of 2025, and with this new setup, I'm confident that I'll be able to achieve it. Reorganizing my shelves has given me a sense of hope and excitement about reading that I hadn't felt in years.

Conclusion

Reorganizing my shelves was not just a practical task; it was also a journey of self-discovery. It forced me to think about how I want to live my life, including how I want to spend my time reading. The result is a new world of reading that I'm excited to explore and enjoy.

Whether you're an avid reader or just starting out on your literary journey, reorganizing your shelves can be a game-changer. It's not just about putting books on shelves; it's also about creating a system that serves you well over time. So take the leap and start organizing your shelves today – I promise you won't regret it!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe on hauled we chatted and now it's time to reorganize cheers friends there's nothing a good chil latte cannot cure greetings and salutations my friends I present to you sick today I've been having a flare up for the past couple of days which has been preventing me from filming cuz it's been really rough however I woke up this morning feeling a lot better sinuses are a little bit clearer than they were for the past couple of days and overall I just feel the need to be productive and to tackle this current situation I've got behind me you may may not know that a couple weeks ago I did a massive unhaul here on my channel where I got rid of over 200 bugs I went through every single one of my shelves per genre per age group and I realistically looked at every single one of my books on my shelves and I asked myself the very important question of will I actually read these or are these just sitting there to look pretty and collect dust and if the answer was I'm not going to read this anytime soon not in the next 6 months not in the next year or I've lost interest in something I held it I said goodbye to it and then I let it go and after unhauling so many books from my collection this is what the shelves are currently looking like there's obvious Gage on the shelves there are empty shelves now and overall I haven't properly reorganized and changed my organizational system for my shelves in over 2 years now back when I moved in 2022 I found what I've been calling this entire time my perfect organizational system I basically divided my books into H group and then into genres and I really have l L that system for a couple years now I find it super useful to know where everything is where to reach for if I'm looking for a certain title and I'm just extremely familiar with my shelves at this point and it's just looked good in my opinion however it's been a couple years since I figured out that system and I feel like I outgrown the system that I'm currently using I have taken it upon myself to really challenge my reading and make sure that I am actually reading the books I own physically if not unhauling them so that maybe by the end of 2025 I can say that my entire physical collection is either red or close to being fully red that said I find that a lot of books because of the system I have got right now my un R books and my red books are all mixed up together find that they often get lost and sometimes it's not really easy for me to see visibly see visibly a little bit redundant but stay with me I can't visibly tell sometimes what is unread from what is R so today I am hoping that I can figure out a better system for myself to kind of maybe separate my unread books from my red ones so that I can fully see what I need to get through and continue to realistically tell myself whether I am going to get to these books or not and figure out further plans in order to get to all of them again maybe by the end of 2025 and because I've been a capacity for so long and I really don't have any other places to kind of put books in I've just been using my shelves very practically as well cuz there was around 820 something books in here and after purging my collection as much as I did and now seeing again some visible Gage I feel like I could now not use my shelves so practically to the point where it's just Barren and now I can maybe put some Decor around and really dress these up and make sure that it just looks cute I feel myself walking to the office these days and just looking at the bookshelves and going okay it's shelves full of books but they don't have any personality they don't really have any life to them and I'm not feeling as inspired as I could just by staring at my shelves so part of today is going to be figuring out a new system for the organizational bit of it but also putting on some Decor on the shelves to again Rees them up and bring some life into them I have gotten quite a bit of things I think it's more than enough to put on the shelves and I also have like other Trinkets and bookish items from book boxes that I've kept stored because I didn't really find any place to put them that I think I can fish out of my storage closet and then maybe figure out how to best fit them around the shelves it may also take us more than just today but I am definitely just looking forward to fixing up in this situation and going from there but before we get started with today's video I do have to give a massive shout out to happy and paully for partnering with me today and giving the cats their new perfect play plays in case you guys are not familiar with happy and Polly they specialize on all things cat accessories so from cat towers to cat scratchers all the way to cat litter accessories and food bowls and water fountains anything and everything you may need for your cats everyday in enrichment happy and Polly has got you covered recently happy and Polly sent over their Wonderland cat tree 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make for a really engaging climbing experience for the cats and because of it too it offers play space for both of my cats so that they can Lounge play run jump on different levels and surfaces in the cat tower as well as just hide in the little Hut at the bottom if they want to if you'd like to check happy and Polly out and see your cats happy certainly Vin and still are I will be leaving a link at the top of the description so that you guys can go see everything that they've got to offer and you can use my code Mel for 10% off sidewise don't say I didn't tell you cuz they've got a bunch of cool stuff and I myself am going to be stocking up on a lot of things that I see on their website there's nothing that brings me more joy than buying the cats treat Trinkets and things that I can add to their collection so it's amazing today's companions are complete with a chai latte and some Impalas and so I'm very excited about this I feel like it's going to be a really good time reorganizing this whole thing I actually need to bring over all the decor to show you guys what I did get and the things that we do need to assemble and what I'm also thinking I'm going to do is just take everything off the shelves I cannot remember the last time I gave these shelves like a thorough clean outside of the areas that I can like visibly clean like you know the actual shelf remaining after the bgs or done so I'm going to I think take everything off the shelves and I need to be strategic about that too so what I feel like I need to do is grab every single book from the shelves and divy them up in two different piles one genre two H group three red and four unread so that I can separate red from unread and then from there create a system I don't know what I want to do with series yet so I feel like that's going to be one of the things that we'll figure out as the video goes on I really don't know that I want to separate series cuz I do own not a lot of them but I do own some series that are not completely Red Like The Witcher like The Stormlight Archive like mistborn like Magnolia Parks which I don't know if I want to separate into red and un red on the shelves or if I just want to keep them together so I feel like series may be the one thing that I don't fully separate but we'll figure it out when we get there things I got to decorate the shelves are the following Lego flowers I love these I've got the Lego orchids and I love how they look as Decor so I got some roses got some sunflowers also got some lotus flowers and then last but not least got some cherry blossoms so I think each kid brings exactly two of them I think that's going to be really cute to kind of put around the shelves and again put some like flowers around I think it's going to be cute I don't know ask me if I've ever crocheted anything no I have not did I get a crochet kit for little crochet friends yes I did these are all like cacti and different plants and stuff I thought it was going to be super cute so I got this I'll put a picture right here of what this is supposed to look like so I need to figure this out because I think it'll be adorable it's got some hanging plants it's got again some cacti I think it's going to be really really cute to also put around the shelves so wish me luck I've always denounced fairy lights on bookshelves guess who got some I'm hoping this is enough fake plants as well I really don't know what my plan is with this I just got things that sounded good and we're going to figure it out as we go got some little book platforms I've been wanting to get some of these for such a long time to display some of my favorite books or books that I just think are really pretty and that would make great display pieces for the shelves this brings five I am hoping that with five it'll be enough a lot of command strips okay because we need to hang things and I realistically don't know how many of these I'm going to need so I got 120 a ton of batteries for the fairy lights because we need them I got this vase it's literally so cute it's like an orange juice card in I'm going to show you this later and then I got another two vases which are also adorable I'll also show you them later of course my cats moved this around cuz they're fighting on the ground what else did you expect anyways let's start pulling everything out of the shelf and see how long that takes and how fast we can get it done cuz don't want to spend too long just pulling books out all right friends these are all of my red books which lowkey being them on the ground is crazy I have divided them into piles obviously of genre and H group so over there at the back we've got lfi we've got romance we've got middle grade book of the month books poetry and Classics and non-fiction we've got graphic novels ya fiction ya sci-fi fantasy we've got adult sci-fi fantasy so we have got a little system going all of the red books are right here and then this is what remains on the shelves honestly not a whole lot I thought it was going to be a lot lot worse than it actually is so this is manageable I think I can actually work with this and maybe even put all of the remaining books in a single like thick Billy so that I can do all of my unread books in a single shelf and then fill all of the rest of the shelves with things that I've already read so now I'm going to pull these out and I'm going to put them into this corner over here and we're going to further separate the books into John R and age group but this time we're going to do unread books the power of the Ring light is joining us because it has been raining all day long the shelves are empty friends everything is officially off them it feels so weird I feel like there's a little bit of echo just because there's nothing in here to see all of the books that I have read and also not read but that I do own on the ground is honestly baffling cuz obviously you see it on the shelves and it doesn't feel like it's excessive it doesn't feel like it's too much like you can see the number and it does feel kind of wild but I think to see it on the floor is something else alog together there's virtually no walking space in the office however I feel pretty accomplished I was also trying to figure out I sat down for a second just contemplating my existence because what even is is happening and I just stared at everything and wondered and asked the universe where to freaking start I could either start with the most obvious spots for me which would be shelves for the books that I've already read at least to get excited cuz I'm starting to dread this task honestly I'm sure when I'm done I'll be happy I'll be looking at my shelves and be enamored and boted with all of them right now I'm feeling over stimulated that's my truth so maybe using a few of these book stands I can start to figure out where exactly I want to utilize these so that I can start figuring out how to move around the space what I do think I'm going to do though which to me makes sense is use both of the furthest shelves as my TBR shelves so nothing in this Central area that you can see right now in the frame so to give you a little bit of an overview of what I'm thinking of doing is one grabbing this shelf right here which is the one that you can rarely see in videos this one right here which is the last shelf as the main TBR shelf and then if I do need any more space other than this then going to the far left corner so that I can utilize this skinny bellly as a TBR shelf and then everything from here all the way to this skinny Billy can just be books that I have read now what I'm also thinking debating considering doing is grabbing most of these skinny billies as display pieces and I say that primarily for series books with sprayed edges special editions which I've got plenty of I've never displayed sprayed edges ever I don't think I've ever like turned around books and made that the display piece however there are quite a bit of special books that I've already read that I can definitely turn around like I don't mind it now so maybe we could have a skinny Billy perhaps full of really pretty sprayed edges that could be a Vibe maybe a shelf for Stormlight a shelf for Magnolia Parks a shelf for Elsie silver a shelf dedicated to my favorite manwa and manga at the moment I feel like maybe starting out with these things that are a little bit clearer in my head would perhaps give me more room to kind of play around figure out where I want things to go and from there start to figure out the rest now I feel like the main issue here is going to be that I can't reach things so I'm going to be literally doing this to grab the books first thing I'm going to grab is Magnolia Parts just because it makes sense to me and we'll start from there now the question is where do I want Magnolia Parks I feel like one of these skinny blies could be a Vibe do I want here I feel like that's cute but also the books are definitely out of order currently working on a romance shelf I'm trying to figure out the placement of these things and how high I want these little piles to go cuz I don't know if I want to put something on top of it or if I just want to let it be let it rest not worry about it too much what I do know that I want to fit into this shelf specifically is this right here I made a little Pinterest board before I started reorganizing the shelves a few weeks ago just so that I had like a Clear Vision of what I wanted for very specific spaces not all of it obviously because I definitely like books styled a very specific way however I definitely took decor ideas from Pinterest because Lord knows I was too lost on that front let me tell you that much tell me this is not like the cutest thing you have ever seen look at it right there doesn't that look the cutest I feel like that's a good spot honestly cuz that's like the middle of the actual shelf and then I'll just keep putting things in there and it's like a little you know it jges it up just a little bit I do want to separate my Emily Henry books a little bit oh this segue into like oh you know what ooh okay I may just do this so that I can do this cuz I feel this oh I love that see my color theory self just loves doing this crap I love this like the segue into orange to then this to then green to then whatever else oh I think this is cute I like that a lot and then I'm just going to keep on layering these now I got to find something to put over here oh that just brought me a lot of Joy ah look at it oh that's good with the flowers oh that's going to look amazing I love man several things have happened since the last time we chatted as I was doing this Shelf also known as a lot of fantasy has made its way into the shelves I love doing the fantasy shelves first as in like the complete shelves just because it's a lot easier for me to arrange and while I have a couple more fantasies to place around these shelves honestly not a whole lot for it to take too much space and this is how we're looking at the moment we have got ya fantasy up here we have got adult fantasy down here we have got the way of kings and The Stormlight Archive over on this corner here with Magnolia Parks up here got some other romances down here and also the book of the month books I'll show you them later cuz they're more toward the bottom as in like the ones that I've already read up here which I did show you as I was placing them on the top shelf I did a few Classics that I've also read and then over on this side I've got a few of my favorite shelves too we have got manga right here with some of my favorites but also I thought about color pattern and I thought about something that was more pastel something that would be eye-catching if I were to like film over here I do feel like it's something that demands to be seen like The Pastels going into like the purples and stuff I also think it's a great contrast because as you can see the fantasy books tend to be pretty neutral so I think throwing that in there followed by the middle grade Shelf at the top that is also quite colorful going into spray edges up here going into this romance shelf as well I think it does a really great job at livening up the bookshelves just so that it's not the same colors over and over because if there's something that fantasy books are going to do is that they're going to have the same colors over and over again all of them are red white blue black honestly it's like Publishers don't know any other colors and two of those are not even colors drives me crazy so I feel like this does a great job at balancing everything out I still have loads of books to get through we still have this much bookage reason why I'm so concerned I actually don't know if the way that I am rearranging shelves is going to make everything fit that is my biggest concern at the moment because I still have that genuinely looks like 160 books maybe maybe less than that I don't know but I have got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 wait it's actually not that bad 12 shelves 160 books the only things I am missing I have got some literary fiction and romance leftover got some middle- grade leftover as well as some adult fantasy leftover haven't even touched ya fantasy or ya fiction so those are going to be interesting to put around the shelves and then I've got some graphic novels left over and then The Thrillers and Horrors which I do believe it shouldn't be that many let's get CRA aacan and see how far we can get today because I feel at the rate I am going I may be able to at least Place everything on the shelves today all right I have to say it I'm impressed I'm impressed with how things are looking right now I have placed all of my red books onto the shelves and I think what I'm most surprised at is the fact that I've got a lot more available shelves than I thought so as I previously discussed with you guys I have got this entire shelf right here which I'm going to make again the TBR shelf completely empty then the one in the corner is completely empty surprisingly though all of the bottom shelves sa for this shelf right here here are available too so I've got two extra big ones which I was not anticipating and then another smaller shelf also available just in case this and the one on the other Corner don't suffice for my physical TBR and just based on the hour I'm vibing I think I'm going to start placing my unread books I don't know what system I want for this I don't think there's like a a smart system for this I don't think save maybe genre and AG group again don't know that I'm going to be displaying too many unread books also because again I think I'm going to have to be very practical with my space but I'm generally surprised because with the amount of books facing out with the amount of books displayed I thought I was not going to have enough space to place everything but I think I've got ample space still to add to my red shelves accordingly like I love this and all of the top part of the bookshelves is also empty for now I think what I'm going to do especially because I don't want to utilize like an entire bottom shelf for them I think I'm going to grab my Cassandra CLA books which I don't really talk about very often and I'm just going to put them all up there cuz it's been so long since I've read them I read them when I was in Middle School and at this point in time I'm not recommending like City of Bones all the time I'm not recommending the last hours haven't even finished that series until I think the Cassandra clear books that I do care for do have a space on the Shelf so the dark artifices artifices so I can reach for those cuz I do want to do a reread at some point so those are you know within reach for me and then do have some special additions let me show them to you these are stunning I can't remember if this was Aluma crat or fairy loot I feel like these were the Aluma crade ones but I have got these editions of the last hours so if I did ever want to read chain of thorns I could either grab my you know regular copy which would be up there or I could just grab the special edition but everything else I can just put up there and then all of my annotated sjm books I'm also going to put up there let's just start doing this thing and figuring this out because I think I think my most strategic thing I'm going to have to do is put the books that I am going to reach for the most and actual reach to me cuz I'm short so the books up here are harder to reach so want to make sure that they're like within that within that distance you know just grab and go welcome to the corner friends so Lo Magnolia parks in the background it's doing its thing I have one exact bookst left I don't know what to do with this I don't know if I should grab another one of the books I've got over here and putting one on display maybe I've got no idea this doesn't fit I don't know why I didn't think about the fact that not every book would fit this wi and it did ask me what width I wanted I thought that would be enough but apparently not for myum strange the dreamer so I don't know what I'm going to do with this I am going to figure it out maybe I'll put like one book on display on the TBR shelf just right there and everything else will just chill out maybe that's a good plan I've got no idea so again I think my best course of action is to grab these two maybe and we'll work around that as my fantasy shelves I feel like that would be smart just because I reach for those quite often maybe this can be romance I did make a read it or and holid jar so I feel like this is going to be really helpful to run through all of this shelving right here and I made this with the sole purpose to actually run through my physical TBR I don't know with what frequency I'm going to be making the read Itor in holid videos but they're coming definitely going to be making those now also the question is where do I want to put this jar should I put it with like Magnolia parks and just like let the jar chill like here maybe yeah it looks wrong maybe down here with a oh that's cute with the discovery of witch is down there cuz there's nothing there wait I like that oh I like that a lot and then I can just like put a little something here to kind of like fill up the space I like that quite a bit oh I have got walking room friends I can find walk around in the office without stumbling on books and dropping books and misreading books cuz the office had virtually no walking space but every single book red and on red is already on the Shelf this is what the shelves are looking like right now I ended up taking about 15 shelves between the skinny billies and the regular billies for all of my unread books so every single nook and cranny has got a book at the moment but I am pleasantly surprised to see that even if I do have books facing out much more than I did before reorganizing and maybe organizing books a little bit different everything managed to fit in I didn't have to hide books or do any crazy Sommer salts to make everything go on the shelves so I am so happy about this the only shelf that I've been kind of changing and trying to figure out what I want it to look like is the Magnolia Park shelf I simply cannot figure this one out I feel like it's too empty but at the same time I do like how it looks I feel like the solution here is going to be grabbing that fake plant I showed you in the beginning that I did get and maybe putting that inside an alumic crate pot like the displayable ones the Collectibles I do have a red one maybe putting that in that corner could be good and then we've got a hanging plant kind of fill up that space because otherwise I really don't know what to do with that little empty Corner in there but other than that spacewise everything fit in perfectly which I'm very happy about and now the thing that I've got to get done is actually decorating which means I need to make all of the Legos I got need to make the little cro crochet friends see for the crochet friends because I've never done it before I don't know that I'm going to make it in this video but I will for sure make them cuz I got it for this and then I'll just place them around the shelves but I think it'll be too time consuming to figure that out in this video I'll keep you updated as we go I definitely am going to carry on tomorrow because it's currently 9900 p.m. and I most certainly want to just wash the face take off the makeup grab some dinner and then head into bed so I feel like that's it for day one of reorganizing the Shelf I certainly did not think I was going to be placing everything back in today but I am pleasantly surprised at how I guess quick the time flew today and the fact that it wasn't that hard to figure it out in the end I think the task was so intimidating just because seeing everything on the ground very over stimulating but once you get into the process I do think it's easier to kind of figure it all out and I am also glad that I decided to do all of my red books first to gauge the space and then fill all of the empty spaces with the unread books I think the shelves are looking incredible I may change my mind overnight you never know if I'll be changing anything tomorrow I genuinely don't think so I feel like as is it looks good like if I were to film here with this as a backspace I I would be happy I think once I put like all of the you know all of the Trinkets and stuff in here in the light I think it's going to grab even more life I think what I haven't really thought through too well is how I'm going to go about it when I've read the books from my unread shelves will I grab them and immediately move them to the red area or will I keep them over here I genuinely don't know I also have been playing with the idea that for all of my unre shelves once I grab something out of it put it into my monthly TBR if I read it didn't really love it enough to keep it I'll either be taking that out immediately from my TBR so that I can just you know rehome that or I'll simply turn it around like Pages facing out so that I know that book is already read but it needs to go and it'll be an onha hold book I feel like I've been toying with that idea more and more as I thought about the again unread red situation I feel like that also sounds good to me so things that I'll be figuring out as I go because again it's been so long since I reorganized this thing but I will say it feels so good to have divided the shelves the way I did it is honestly a breath of fresh air to be able to fully separate my unread books from the rest of it you know the saying in Spanish like you have to fill it up through the eyes feel like that's what I need to do I feel like I needed to be able to see all of the unread stuff I think it also makes it easier for monthly tbrs to be like here and here and then some at the bottom but you know what I mean most of it is here most of it is on the other side I know where to look and I think it'll be a lot easier to plan tbrs this way and maybe spot titles that otherwise were getting lost in the grand scheme of the shelves cuz everything was mixed in before so for right now bid you farewell and I will see you tomorrow when it is time to decorate this thing it is a new day friends welcome to day two of reorganizing my bookshelves I have slept on this I have come in and out of the office all day and I think I'm satisfied I think I'm incredibly happy with how these look I don't think anything is going to be moved or changed around I was doubting it a little bit yesterday cuz I was telling myself it couldn't be that easy to figure out a system and yet when I came in this morning I was like no this feels right like this feels good and now it's just a matter of decorating I think I'm going to pull out a the trinkets first so all the things that I already own that I just have to place I have got mugs and like little book merch items that I think will look amazing you know in certain spots and certain shelves around certain books so I feel like doing that first before I step into one building the Legos and then also two placing all of the fairy lights I feel like that's going to be good so let me bring in all of the items and then we can start figuring out where everything goes and how to place everything cuz I think I have quite a bit of things to maybe add to the shelves some things that I know for sure are going on the shelves we first have got this papy war mug that came in an alumic Crate Box years ago and because I have got the poy War you know horizontally and stacked up I feel like this up here is going to be really good now what I have to figure out just because Jade City and the green bone Saga is like right next to it it's like right over there I got this plate that came with the set that is also from Alum crate and it is from the twice lucky Club in joh Lon which is part of the plot and so I think putting this like right next to the poy War mug would look so good I just don't have how to prop it up I feel like that's going to be the problem cuz I don't think I have got like a little you know a little plate stand I'd have to get one I think and then I have got these little tins like these book tins also from Aluma crate I'm pretty sure both of them and maybe I can place these somewhere maybe it could be a piece of Decor you like this one facing out could be cute cuz I don't necessarily love the the actual spine of it but maybe facing out like this fake succulent that we're going to place somewhere I have got one of the alumic crate pots this is the Book of the Dead I feel like this would look really good on the classic shelf with the hanging plant this one because this one just has like the little stem and you just place it wherever you want and maybe that will also cover up the Magnolia hole you know right there cuz I don't have anything else to cover that up I also have this little London Lego boss that I got when I was in London I don't know where I'll be putting this but but I can also figure this out I have got this little Percy Jackson dagger which is a replica from the actual book series so I feel like this on the middle grade but primarily Percy shelf I feel like it could be really cute I also have but I feel like it' be too much cuz I'm already going to have the mug and the plate over here but I do have this little like red ricing little like portrait also I think this was from Aluma crate as well what do you know I ran out of battery anyways I'm back hello feel like I just have to strategic ically plays these things around cuz I don't feel like every single shelf needs a piece of Decor as long as I put them in places where it makes sense and it does Judge up the shelves I feel like we're going to be good honestly I've had this stored for so long I can't even remember what I've saved here so maybe oh it's just pins maybe we can oh my God this is stunning what is this from oh from the night circus this is really really stinking pretty maybe we can play some of these enamel pins around the shelves I've got so many this is from I don't even know what this is from but maybe this is these violent Delights inspired we have got these ones for oh my God for Jade City these are so good I have had these again stored for so long that I don't even know what I have in here we have got a necklace from Crescent City feel like we also have to look through here and see maybe from here what I can salvage to maybe place around the shelves as well CU I feel like pins especially the bigger ones are really cute Decor that said let us start placing everything I'll give you some aesthetic Boll of it all and once I have got some semblance of like updates on where everything has gone so we still have a little bit to go all of the lights are on the shelves friends this took ages I'm like literally sweating this took so much longer than I would even like to admit I did not think this was going to be so timec consuming I calculated all of the lights and all of the feet exactly right and I knew that I did but there was a point where I ran out of wire and I was like no this is wrong cuz I know I measured this thing with my brother who's a math die and we made sure that every number was right and something was not giving had to rewire this last portion over on this side for it to actually fit but it fit perfectly literally not a single inch more of wire was left so this is looking so nice I feel like it's really providing like the ambience lighting that my office was missing I feel like this looks so good I love this a lot only thing we are missing at the moment are the Legos my brain is still very awake even though it probably shouldn't be it's midnight but I think what I'm going to do is just build the Legos as I watch some YouTube videos and I catch up on things that I have not been able to watch this week and I'll just give myself like an extra maybe like 45 minutes to build all of the Legos so that we can place those on the shelves and figure out exactly where I'm going to be placing them and figure out exactly where the other two vases are going to be on the shelves what are these shelves I feel like this is so different I mean I don't feel it like I know it this is like so different to what we had before but I'm like astounded cuz I didn't think this was going to be my reality but it looks so cool I think maybe hopefully friends and just like that after a couple of days of reorganizing all of the shelves putting the books out putting them back in figuring out a system figuring out where all of the decor is going the shelves are done I'm going to give you a little bit of a bual overview of what the shelves are looking like now the lights are installed all of the decor is in books have been separated into red and unread and I I absolutely love how the shelves are looking I think it's such a 180 to what I had before I think the system itself serves the purpose of what I'm trying to do for the next year so much better than what I had before as well and I'm just very excited to see how in the coming months these shelves will service that goal I have of running through if not all of my unread books by the end of 2025 then at least the majority of them I'm very excited to see what the tbrs look like with me maybe spotting titles that I wasn't paying attention to before cuz they're a lot more visible now and overall I just think the shelves look amazing this brings me a lot of Joy coming in here now every single day is such a different feeling too a couple weeks ago when I was walking into the office and I was just like a the shelves are just there now I'm walking in and it's like I'm feeling inspired to film and use this as a background and try different things and again read different books so everything worked out beautifully even though it was timeconsuming cuz I definitely took a couple days it definitely was worth the time so that is it for today friends I hope you guys enjoyed watching me reorganize my shelves if you did don't forget to give it a massive Thumbs Up Down Below and make sure to comment down below how you organize your shelves do you separate your red and on red books you have a TBR shelf a TBR cardart how did you go about creating your system does it have a system is it just functional and practical or is there a whole system and vision behind it let a girl know down in the comments and if you reach the end of the video let us leave some mushrooms in the comments and if you haven't subscribed yet and you want more content like this make sure to subscribe down below and I also have a patreon in case you guys want to support the channel further that always helps run things smoothly and get equipment which can often be quite expensive and it just helps F back the channel in ways that maybe AdSense cannot so if you ever want to find a community of like-minded people join up on Sprints and live streams and a Discord server and book clubs that is always linked down below and it helps the channel a ton I love you guys so so much and I will see you on my next one goodbye ohwe on hauled we chatted and now it's time to reorganize cheers friends there's nothing a good chil latte cannot cure greetings and salutations my friends I present to you sick today I've been having a flare up for the past couple of days which has been preventing me from filming cuz it's been really rough however I woke up this morning feeling a lot better sinuses are a little bit clearer than they were for the past couple of days and overall I just feel the need to be productive and to tackle this current situation I've got behind me you may may not know that a couple weeks ago I did a massive unhaul here on my channel where I got rid of over 200 bugs I went through every single one of my shelves per genre per age group and I realistically looked at every single one of my books on my shelves and I asked myself the very important question of will I actually read these or are these just sitting there to look pretty and collect dust and if the answer was I'm not going to read this anytime soon not in the next 6 months not in the next year or I've lost interest in something I held it I said goodbye to it and then I let it go and after unhauling so many books from my collection this is what the shelves are currently looking like there's obvious Gage on the shelves there are empty shelves now and overall I haven't properly reorganized and changed my organizational system for my shelves in over 2 years now back when I moved in 2022 I found what I've been calling this entire time my perfect organizational system I basically divided my books into H group and then into genres and I really have l L that system for a couple years now I find it super useful to know where everything is where to reach for if I'm looking for a certain title and I'm just extremely familiar with my shelves at this point and it's just looked good in my opinion however it's been a couple years since I figured out that system and I feel like I outgrown the system that I'm currently using I have taken it upon myself to really challenge my reading and make sure that I am actually reading the books I own physically if not unhauling them so that maybe by the end of 2025 I can say that my entire physical collection is either red or close to being fully red that said I find that a lot of books because of the system I have got right now my un R books and my red books are all mixed up together find that they often get lost and sometimes it's not really easy for me to see visibly see visibly a little bit redundant but stay with me I can't visibly tell sometimes what is unread from what is R so today I am hoping that I can figure out a better system for myself to kind of maybe separate my unread books from my red ones so that I can fully see what I need to get through and continue to realistically tell myself whether I am going to get to these books or not and figure out further plans in order to get to all of them again maybe by the end of 2025 and because I've been a capacity for so long and I really don't have any other places to kind of put books in I've just been using my shelves very practically as well cuz there was around 820 something books in here and after purging my collection as much as I did and now seeing again some visible Gage I feel like I could now not use my shelves so practically to the point where it's just Barren and now I can maybe put some Decor around and really dress these up and make sure that it just looks cute I feel myself walking to the office these days and just looking at the bookshelves and going okay it's shelves full of books but they don't have any personality they don't really have any life to them and I'm not feeling as inspired as I could just by staring at my shelves so part of today is going to be figuring out a new system for the organizational bit of it but also putting on some Decor on the shelves to again Rees them up and bring some life into them I have gotten quite a bit of things I think it's more than enough to put on the shelves and I also have like other Trinkets and bookish items from book boxes that I've kept stored because I didn't really find any place to put them that I think I can fish out of my storage closet and then maybe figure out how to best fit them around the shelves it may also take us more than just today but I am definitely just looking forward to fixing up in this situation and going from there but before we get started with today's video I do have to give a massive shout out to happy and paully for partnering with me today and giving the cats their new perfect play plays in case you guys are not familiar with happy and Polly they specialize on all things cat accessories so from cat towers to cat scratchers all the way to cat litter 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thing just because I bet it feels good for scratches and also for the sharpening it's honestly incredible to see the cats this happy the climbing route is also amazing it has different platforms and different heights to make for a really engaging climbing experience for the cats and because of it too it offers play space for both of my cats so that they can Lounge play run jump on different levels and surfaces in the cat tower as well as just hide in the little Hut at the bottom if they want to if you'd like to check happy and Polly out and see your cats happy certainly Vin and still are I will be leaving a link at the top of the description so that you guys can go see everything that they've got to offer and you can use my code Mel for 10% off sidewise don't say I didn't tell you cuz they've got a bunch of cool stuff and I myself am going to be stocking up on a lot of things that I see on their website there's nothing that brings me more joy than buying the cats treat Trinkets and things that I can add to their collection so it's amazing today's companions are complete with a chai latte and some Impalas and so I'm very excited about this I feel like it's going to be a really good time reorganizing this whole thing I actually need to bring over all the decor to show you guys what I did get and the things that we do need to assemble and what I'm also thinking I'm going to do is just take everything off the shelves I cannot remember the last time I gave these shelves like a thorough clean outside of the areas that I can like visibly clean like you know the actual shelf remaining after the bgs or done so I'm going to I think take everything off the shelves and I need to be strategic about that too so what I feel like I need to do is grab every single book from the shelves and divy them up in two different piles one genre two H group three red and four unread so that I can separate red from unread and then from there create a system I don't know what I want to do with series yet so I feel like that's going to be one of the things that we'll figure out as the video goes on I really don't know that I want to separate series cuz I do own not a lot of them but I do own some series that are not completely Red Like The Witcher like The Stormlight Archive like mistborn like Magnolia Parks which I don't know if I want to separate into red and un red on the shelves or if I just want to keep them together so I feel like series may be the one thing that I don't fully separate but we'll figure it out when we get there things I got to decorate the shelves are the following Lego flowers I love these I've got the Lego orchids and I love how they look as Decor so I got some roses got some sunflowers also got some lotus flowers and then last but not least got some cherry blossoms so I think each kid brings exactly two of them I think that's going to be really cute to kind of put around the shelves and again put some like flowers around I think it's going to be cute I don't know ask me if I've ever crocheted anything no I have not did I get a crochet kit for little crochet friends yes I did these are all like cacti and different plants and stuff I thought it was going to be super cute so I got this I'll put a picture right here of what this is supposed to look like so I need to figure this out because I think it'll be adorable it's got some hanging plants it's got again some cacti I think it's going to be really really cute to also put around the shelves so wish me luck I've always denounced fairy lights on bookshelves guess who got some I'm hoping this is enough fake plants as well I really don't know what my plan is with this I just got things that sounded good and we're going to figure it out as we go got some little book platforms I've been wanting to get some of these for such a long time to display some of my favorite books or books that I just think are really pretty and that would make great display pieces for the shelves this brings five I am hoping that with five it'll be enough a lot of command strips okay because we need to hang things and I realistically don't know how many of these I'm going to need so I got 120 a ton of batteries for the fairy lights because we need them I got this vase it's literally so cute it's like an orange juice card in I'm going to show you this later and then I got another two vases which are also adorable I'll also show you them later of course my cats moved this around cuz they're fighting on the ground what else did you expect anyways let's start pulling everything out of the shelf and see how long that takes and how fast we can get it done cuz don't want to spend too long just pulling books out all right friends these are all of my red books which lowkey being them on the ground is crazy I have divided them into piles obviously of genre and H group so over there at the back we've got lfi we've got romance we've got middle grade book of the month books poetry and Classics and non-fiction we've got graphic novels ya fiction ya sci-fi fantasy we've got adult sci-fi fantasy so we have got a little system going all of the red books are right here and then this is what remains on the shelves honestly not a whole lot I thought it was going to be a lot lot worse than it actually is so this is manageable I think I can actually work with this and maybe even put all of the remaining books in a single like thick Billy so that I can do all of my unread books in a single shelf and then fill all of the rest of the shelves with things that I've already read so now I'm going to pull these out and I'm going to put them into this corner over here and we're going to further separate the books into John R and age group but this time we're going to do unread books the power of the Ring light is joining us because it has been raining all day long the shelves are empty friends everything is officially off them it feels so weird I feel like there's a little bit of echo just because there's nothing in here to see all of the books that I have read and also not read but that I do own on the ground is honestly baffling cuz obviously you see it on the shelves and it doesn't feel like it's excessive it doesn't feel like it's too much like you can see the number and it does feel kind of wild but I think to see it on the floor is something else alog together there's virtually no walking space in the office however I feel pretty accomplished I was also trying to figure out I sat down for a second just contemplating my existence because what even is is happening and I just stared at everything and wondered and asked the universe where to freaking start I could either start with the most obvious spots for me which would be shelves for the books that I've already read at least to get excited cuz I'm starting to dread this task honestly I'm sure when I'm done I'll be happy I'll be looking at my shelves and be enamored and boted with all of them right now I'm feeling over stimulated that's my truth so maybe using a few of these book stands I can start to figure out where exactly I want to utilize these so that I can start figuring out how to move around the space what I do think I'm going to do though which to me makes sense is use both of the furthest shelves as my TBR shelves so nothing in this Central area that you can see right now in the frame so to give you a little bit of an overview of what I'm thinking of doing is one grabbing this shelf right here which is the one that you can rarely see in videos this one right here which is the last shelf as the main TBR shelf and then if I do need any more space other than this then going to the far left corner so that I can utilize this skinny bellly as a TBR shelf and then everything from here all the way to this skinny Billy can just be books that I have read now what I'm also thinking debating considering doing is grabbing most of these skinny billies as display pieces and I say that primarily for series books with sprayed edges special editions which I've got plenty of I've never displayed sprayed edges ever I don't think I've ever like turned around books and made that the display piece however there are quite a bit of special books that I've already read that I can definitely turn around like I don't mind it now so maybe we could have a skinny Billy perhaps full of really pretty sprayed edges that could be a Vibe maybe a shelf for Stormlight a shelf for Magnolia Parks a shelf for Elsie silver a shelf dedicated to my favorite manwa and manga at the moment I feel like maybe starting out with these things that are a little bit clearer in my head would perhaps give me more room to kind of play around figure out where I want things to go and from there start to figure out the rest now I feel like the main issue here is going to be that I can't reach things so I'm going to be literally doing this to grab the books first thing I'm going to grab is Magnolia Parts just because it makes sense to me and we'll start from there now the question is where do I want Magnolia Parks I feel like one of these skinny blies could be a Vibe do I want here I feel like that's cute but also the books are definitely out of order currently working on a romance shelf I'm trying to figure out the placement of these things and how high I want these little piles to go cuz I don't know if I want to put something on top of it or if I just want to let it be let it rest not worry about it too much what I do know that I want to fit into this shelf specifically is this right here I made a little Pinterest board before I started reorganizing the shelves a few weeks ago just so that I had like a Clear Vision of what I wanted for very specific spaces not all of it obviously because I definitely like books styled a very specific way however I definitely took decor ideas from Pinterest because Lord knows I was too lost on that front let me tell you that much tell me this is not like the cutest thing you have ever seen look at it right there doesn't that look the cutest I feel like that's a good spot honestly cuz that's like the middle of the actual shelf and then I'll just keep putting things in there and it's like a little you know it jges it up just a little bit I do want to separate my Emily Henry books a little bit oh this segue into like oh you know what ooh okay I may just do this so that I can do this cuz I feel this oh I love that see my color theory self just loves doing this crap I love this like the segue into orange to then this to then green to then whatever else oh I think this is cute I like that a lot and then I'm just going to keep on layering these now I got to find something to put over here oh that just brought me a lot of Joy ah look at it oh that's good with the flowers oh that's going to look amazing I love man several things have happened since the last time we chatted as I was doing this Shelf also known as a lot of fantasy has made its way into the shelves I love doing the fantasy shelves first as in like the complete shelves just because it's a lot easier for me to arrange and while I have a couple more fantasies to place around these shelves honestly not a whole lot for it to take too much space and this is how we're looking at the moment we have got ya fantasy up here we have got adult fantasy down here we have got the way of kings and The Stormlight Archive over on this corner here with Magnolia Parks up here got some other romances down here and also the book of the month books I'll show you them later cuz they're more toward the bottom as in like the ones that I've already read up here which I did show you as I was placing them on the top shelf I did a few Classics that I've also read and then over on this side I've got a few of my favorite shelves too we have got manga right here with some of my favorites but also I thought about color pattern and I thought about something that was more pastel something that would be eye-catching if I were to like film over here I do feel like it's something that demands to be seen like The Pastels going into like the purples and stuff I also think it's a great contrast because as you can see the fantasy books tend to be pretty neutral so I think throwing that in there followed by the middle grade Shelf at the top that is also quite colorful going into spray edges up here going into this romance shelf as well I think it does a really great job at livening up the bookshelves just so that it's not the same colors over and over because if there's something that fantasy books are going to do is that they're going to have the same colors over and over again all of them are red white blue black honestly it's like Publishers don't know any other colors and two of those are not even colors drives me crazy so I feel like this does a great job at balancing everything out I still have loads of books to get through we still have this much bookage reason why I'm so concerned I actually don't know if the way that I am rearranging shelves is going to make everything fit that is my biggest concern at the moment because I still have that genuinely looks like 160 books maybe maybe less than that I don't know but I have got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 wait it's actually not that bad 12 shelves 160 books the only things I am missing I have got some literary fiction and romance leftover got some middle- grade leftover as well as some adult fantasy leftover haven't even touched ya fantasy or ya fiction so those are going to be interesting to put around the shelves and then I've got some graphic novels left over and then The Thrillers and Horrors which I do believe it shouldn't be that many let's get CRA aacan and see how far we can get today because I feel at the rate I am going I may be able to at least Place everything on the shelves today all right I have to say it I'm impressed I'm impressed with how things are looking right now I have placed all of my red books onto the shelves and I think what I'm most surprised at is the fact that I've got a lot more available shelves than I thought so as I previously discussed with you guys I have got this entire shelf right here which I'm going to make again the TBR shelf completely empty then the one in the corner is completely empty surprisingly though all of the bottom shelves sa for this shelf right here here are available too so I've got two extra big ones which I was not anticipating and then another smaller shelf also available just in case this and the one on the other Corner don't suffice for my physical TBR and just based on the hour I'm vibing I think I'm going to start placing my unread books I don't know what system I want for this I don't think there's like a a smart system for this I don't think save maybe genre and AG group again don't know that I'm going to be displaying too many unread books also because again I think I'm going to have to be very practical with my space but I'm generally surprised because with the amount of books facing out with the amount of books displayed I thought I was not going to have enough space to place everything but I think I've got ample space still to add to my red shelves accordingly like I love this and all of the top part of the bookshelves is also empty for now I think what I'm going to do especially because I don't want to utilize like an entire bottom shelf for them I think I'm going to grab my Cassandra CLA books which I don't really talk about very often and I'm just going to put them all up there cuz it's been so long since I've read them I read them when I was in Middle School and at this point in time I'm not recommending like City of Bones all the time I'm not recommending the last hours haven't even finished that series until I think the Cassandra clear books that I do care for do have a space on the Shelf so the dark artifices artifices so I can reach for those cuz I do want to do a reread at some point so those are you know within reach for me and then do have some special additions let me show them to you these are stunning I can't remember if this was Aluma crat or fairy loot I feel like these were the Aluma crade ones but I have got these editions of the last hours so if I did ever want to read chain of thorns I could either grab my you know regular copy which would be up there or I could just grab the special edition but everything else I can just put up there and then all of my annotated sjm books I'm also going to put up there let's just start doing this thing and figuring this out because I think I think my most strategic thing I'm going to have to do is put the books that I am going to reach for the most and actual reach to me cuz I'm short so the books up here are harder to reach so want to make sure that they're like within that within that distance you know just grab and go welcome to the corner friends so Lo Magnolia parks in the background it's doing its thing I have one exact bookst left I don't know what to do with this I don't know if I should grab another one of the books I've got over here and putting one on display maybe I've got no idea this doesn't fit I don't know why I didn't think about the fact that not every book would fit this wi and it did ask me what width I wanted I thought that would be enough but apparently not for myum strange the dreamer so I don't know what I'm going to do with this I am going to figure it out maybe I'll put like one book on display on the TBR shelf just right there and everything else will just chill out maybe that's a good plan I've got no idea so again I think my best course of action is to grab these two maybe and we'll work around that as my fantasy shelves I feel like that would be smart just because I reach for those quite often maybe this can be romance I did make a read it or and holid jar so I feel like this is going to be really helpful to run through all of this shelving right here and I made this with the sole purpose to actually run through my physical TBR I don't know with what frequency I'm going to be making the read Itor in holid videos but they're coming definitely going to be making those now also the question is where do I want to put this jar should I put it with like Magnolia parks and just like let the jar chill like here maybe yeah it looks wrong maybe down here with a oh that's cute with the discovery of witch is down there cuz there's nothing there wait I like that oh I like that a lot and then I can just like put a little something here to kind of like fill up the space I like that quite a bit oh I have got walking room friends I can find walk around in the office without stumbling on books and dropping books and misreading books cuz the office had virtually no walking space but every single book red and on red is already on the Shelf this is what the shelves are looking like right now I ended up taking about 15 shelves between the skinny billies and the regular billies for all of my unread books so every single nook and cranny has got a book at the moment but I am pleasantly surprised to see that even if I do have books facing out much more than I did before reorganizing and maybe organizing books a little bit different everything managed to fit in I didn't have to hide books or do any crazy Sommer salts to make everything go on the shelves so I am so happy about this the only shelf that I've been kind of changing and trying to figure out what I want it to look like is the Magnolia Park shelf I simply cannot figure this one out I feel like it's too empty but at the same time I do like how it looks I feel like the solution here is going to be grabbing that fake plant I showed you in the beginning that I did get and maybe putting that inside an alumic crate pot like the displayable ones the Collectibles I do have a red one maybe putting that in that corner could be good and then we've got a hanging plant kind of fill up that space because otherwise I really don't know what to do with that little empty Corner in there but other than that spacewise everything fit in perfectly which I'm very happy about and now the thing that I've got to get done is actually decorating which means I need to make all of the Legos I got need to make the little cro crochet friends see for the crochet friends because I've never done it before I don't know that I'm going to make it in this video but I will for sure make them cuz I got it for this and then I'll just place them around the shelves but I think it'll be too time consuming to figure that out in this video I'll keep you updated as we go I definitely am going to carry on tomorrow because it's currently 9900 p.m. and I most certainly want to just wash the face take off the makeup grab some dinner and then head into bed so I feel like that's it for day one of reorganizing the Shelf I certainly did not think I was going to be placing everything back in today but I am pleasantly surprised at how I guess quick the time flew today and the fact that it wasn't that hard to figure it out in the end I think the task was so intimidating just because seeing everything on the ground very over stimulating but once you get into the process I do think it's easier to kind of figure it all out and I am also glad that I decided to do all of my red books first to gauge the space and then fill all of the empty spaces with the unread books I think the shelves are looking incredible I may change my mind overnight you never know if I'll be changing anything tomorrow I genuinely don't think so I feel like as is it looks good like if I were to film here with this as a backspace I I would be happy I think once I put like all of the you know all of the Trinkets and stuff in here in the light I think it's going to grab even more life I think what I haven't really thought through too well is how I'm going to go about it when I've read the books from my unread shelves will I grab them and immediately move them to the red area or will I keep them over here I genuinely don't know I also have been playing with the idea that for all of my unre shelves once I grab something out of it put it into my monthly TBR if I read it didn't really love it enough to keep it I'll either be taking that out immediately from my TBR so that I can just you know rehome that or I'll simply turn it around like Pages facing out so that I know that book is already read but it needs to go and it'll be an onha hold book I feel like I've been toying with that idea more and more as I thought about the again unread red situation I feel like that also sounds good to me so things that I'll be figuring out as I go because again it's been so long since I reorganized this thing but I will say it feels so good to have divided the shelves the way I did it is honestly a breath of fresh air to be able to fully separate my unread books from the rest of it you know the saying in Spanish like you have to fill it up through the eyes feel like that's what I need to do I feel like I needed to be able to see all of the unread stuff I think it also makes it easier for monthly tbrs to be like here and here and then some at the bottom but you know what I mean most of it is here most of it is on the other side I know where to look and I think it'll be a lot easier to plan tbrs this way and maybe spot titles that otherwise were getting lost in the grand scheme of the shelves cuz everything was mixed in before so for right now bid you farewell and I will see you tomorrow when it is time to decorate this thing it is a new day friends welcome to day two of reorganizing my bookshelves I have slept on this I have come in and out of the office all day and I think I'm satisfied I think I'm incredibly happy with how these look I don't think anything is going to be moved or changed around I was doubting it a little bit yesterday cuz I was telling myself it couldn't be that easy to figure out a system and yet when I came in this morning I was like no this feels right like this feels good and now it's just a matter of decorating I think I'm going to pull out a the trinkets first so all the things that I already own that I just have to place I have got mugs and like little book merch items that I think will look amazing you know in certain spots and certain shelves around certain books so I feel like doing that first before I step into one building the Legos and then also two placing all of the fairy lights I feel like that's going to be good so let me bring in all of the items and then we can start figuring out where everything goes and how to place everything cuz I think I have quite a bit of things to maybe add to the shelves some things that I know for sure are going on the shelves we first have got this papy war mug that came in an alumic Crate Box years ago and because I have got the poy War you know horizontally and stacked up I feel like this up here is going to be really good now what I have to figure out just because Jade City and the green bone Saga is like right next to it it's like right over there I got this plate that came with the set that is also from Alum crate and it is from the twice lucky Club in joh Lon which is part of the plot and so I think putting this like right next to the poy War mug would look so good I just don't have how to prop it up I feel like that's going to be the problem cuz I don't think I have got like a little you know a little plate stand I'd have to get one I think and then I have got these little tins like these book tins also from Aluma crate I'm pretty sure both of them and maybe I can place these somewhere maybe it could be a piece of Decor you like this one facing out could be cute cuz I don't necessarily love the the actual spine of it but maybe facing out like this fake succulent that we're going to place somewhere I have got one of the alumic crate pots this is the Book of the Dead I feel like this would look really good on the classic shelf with the hanging plant this one because this one just has like the little stem and you just place it wherever you want and maybe that will also cover up the Magnolia hole you know right there cuz I don't have anything else to cover that up I also have this little London Lego boss that I got when I was in London I don't know where I'll be putting this but but I can also figure this out I have got this little Percy Jackson dagger which is a replica from the actual book series so I feel like this on the middle grade but primarily Percy shelf I feel like it could be really cute I also have but I feel like it' be too much cuz I'm already going to have the mug and the plate over here but I do have this little like red ricing little like portrait also I think this was from Aluma crate as well what do you know I ran out of battery anyways I'm back hello feel like I just have to strategic ically plays these things around cuz I don't feel like every single shelf needs a piece of Decor as long as I put them in places where it makes sense and it does Judge up the shelves I feel like we're going to be good honestly I've had this stored for so long I can't even remember what I've saved here so maybe oh it's just pins maybe we can oh my God this is stunning what is this from oh from the night circus this is really really stinking pretty maybe we can play some of these enamel pins around the shelves I've got so many this is from I don't even know what this is from but maybe this is these violent Delights inspired we have got these ones for oh my God for Jade City these are so good I have had these again stored for so long that I don't even know what I have in here we have got a necklace from Crescent City feel like we also have to look through here and see maybe from here what I can salvage to maybe place around the shelves as well CU I feel like pins especially the bigger ones are really cute Decor that said let us start placing everything I'll give you some aesthetic Boll of it all and once I have got some semblance of like updates on where everything has gone so we still have a little bit to go all of the lights are on the shelves friends this took ages I'm like literally sweating this took so much longer than I would even like to admit I did not think this was going to be so timec consuming I calculated all of the lights and all of the feet exactly right and I knew that I did but there was a point where I ran out of wire and I was like no this is wrong cuz I know I measured this thing with my brother who's a math die and we made sure that every number was right and something was not giving had to rewire this last portion over on this side for it to actually fit but it fit perfectly literally not a single inch more of wire was left so this is looking so nice I feel like it's really providing like the ambience lighting that my office was missing I feel like this looks so good I love this a lot only thing we are missing at the moment are the Legos my brain is still very awake even though it probably shouldn't be it's midnight but I think what I'm going to do is just build the Legos as I watch some YouTube videos and I catch up on things that I have not been able to watch this week and I'll just give myself like an extra maybe like 45 minutes to build all of the Legos so that we can place those on the shelves and figure out exactly where I'm going to be placing them and figure out exactly where the other two vases are going to be on the shelves what are these shelves I feel like this is so different I mean I don't feel it like I know it this is like so different to what we had before but I'm like astounded cuz I didn't think this was going to be my reality but it looks so cool I think maybe hopefully friends and just like that after a couple of days of reorganizing all of the shelves putting the books out putting them back in figuring out a system figuring out where all of the decor is going the shelves are done I'm going to give you a little bit of a bual overview of what the shelves are looking like now the lights are installed all of the decor is in books have been separated into red and unread and I I absolutely love how the shelves are looking I think it's such a 180 to what I had before I think the system itself serves the purpose of what I'm trying to do for the next year so much better than what I had before as well and I'm just very excited to see how in the coming months these shelves will service that goal I have of running through if not all of my unread books by the end of 2025 then at least the majority of them I'm very excited to see what the tbrs look like with me maybe spotting titles that I wasn't paying attention to before cuz they're a lot more visible now and overall I just think the shelves look amazing this brings me a lot of Joy coming in here now every single day is such a different feeling too a couple weeks ago when I was walking into the office and I was just like a the shelves are just there now I'm walking in and it's like I'm feeling inspired to film and use this as a background and try different things and again read different books so everything worked out beautifully even though it was timeconsuming cuz I definitely took a couple days it definitely was worth the time so that is it for today friends I hope you guys enjoyed watching me reorganize my shelves if you did don't forget to give it a massive Thumbs Up Down Below and make sure to comment down below how you organize your shelves do you separate your red and on red books you have a TBR shelf a TBR cardart how did you go about creating your system does it have a system is it just functional and practical or is there a whole system and vision behind it let a girl know down in the comments and if you reach the end of the video let us leave some mushrooms in the comments and if you haven't subscribed yet and you want more content like this make sure to subscribe down below and I also have a patreon in case you guys want to 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