Kitchen cookbook storage is efficient, as long as your system makes sense.
It's OK to admit it -- your guilty collecting pleasure is cookbooks and that passion has resulted in an impressive culinary library. Having your cookbooks on hand and in close proximity to your food prep area can be a time saver, so when you think about arranging the texts behind glass-front cabinets, create both logical and artistic groupings so everything looks as delicious as the food you prepare after reading them. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Employ some logic to position your favorite cookbooks first. Place the well-worn volumes containing the recipes family members request over and over in a convenient, centrally located spot on a shelf at eye level. Check the arrangement once your favorites are lined up to make certain you can read all of the titles behind the glass cabinet fronts.
2. Create a shelf for your "problem" cookbooks. Measure your tallest cookbook. Relocate the pegs that hold several shelves in place to carve out space for the tall books behind the glass cabinet doors. Use this organizational technique to avoid having to place books on their sides, thereby obscuring one or more titles.
3. Construct a cookbook arrangement based on the color of the book jackets. Build vertical color sections to cluster like-sized books and colors together. Stow your oversized cookbooks with red jackets on taller shelves and red-jacketed, standard-size cookbooks above and below to create harmonious color arrangement behind the glass doors.
4. Arrange your cookbooks according to your style of cooking if the aforementioned systems don't appeal to you. Position your cookbooks behind the glass doors in themed sections that give you easy access to your pastry and dessert books if baking happens to be your specialty. Reserve the highest shelves for the cookbooks you rarely open but haven't the heart to give away.
5. Default to author's last names if your collection is so huge that no other system will work for your situation. Alphabetize all of the cooking texts in your possession, then file them in order. Set up this by-author cookbook arrangement if you love simplicity, following in the footsteps of some libraries who prefer this system of book classification to the Dewey Decimal System.
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