Organizing Bookshelves with Decorative Boxes

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Have you ever wondered if there was a way that you could make your bookshelves look a little less cluttered without getting rid of anything? Today I bring you a way to organize your bookshelf that you may not have thought of before now.  Here is my bookshelf Before:

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Yes, I made the tea light candle holder from one of my old fence posts; but that is another story for another day.  Focus on all of the sheet music sitting directly behind the repurposed candle holder, right about in the middle. I am going to show you a way to make it look a little better.  Every little bit helps, right?

What you need is a cat.  First, take out the sheet music.  Then, install the cat.  Ta-dah!

I’m sorry; I just couldn’t help myself!  I hope you think that is as funny as I thought it was….  Our cat is always on hand to “help” with my projects…..

Back to the project of decluttering the shelf.  I was out shopping when I saw this big, hollow, storage book box.*  I am attracted to the green, blue, and purple side of the color wheel when I am shopping.  This one has all three of those colors!  I don’t have a lot of space to decorate with knick-knacks.  I needed to think of a practical purpose for this storage box.  Thankfully, I did think of a couple of ideas to be able to organize my shelves better.  Here is the front of the box that I bought:

And here is the spine:

I bought it, thinking that I could fit one large book inside of it.  That would have worked, except that the storage book was too tall for the shelf that I would have put it on. Then I thought of my sheet music.  This sheet music is mostly Christmas piano music and other things that I don’t use very often.  The box was the perfect size! A LOT of sheet music fit into it.

And here is the real AFTER!!

Or did you like the one of the cat better? : )  Do you see the other decorative box on the middle shelf under the DVD player?  It holds part of my postcard collection…it was a box that held a set of stationery paper and cards.  I really like those decorative boxes…. The nesting ones* are so cute, and the ones with inspiring quotes on them…. They make great keepsake boxes.   I will show you some more of mine in a future post…..

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