Where do you store your cookbooks? Do they live in the kitchen, or somewhere else in the house? Cheryl Sternman Rule at 5 Second Rule has a unique way of storing and displaying a rotating selection of her cookbooks. She puts them up, face-out, on shelves right in the kitchen!
Cheryl shows off her wall o' cookbooks in a post on recipe organization and searching. She puts up the books she's currently cooking out of (see all those sticky notes and tabs in the pages?) and rotates them regularly.
For someone like me, who tends to gravitate towards whatever is right in front of me, this would be a great way to remember the books I have been meaning to cook out of. Having their bright faces right there on the wall would be terrific; it's like they are all saying, "Remember me? Remember?"
Of course, I have no wall space available in my kitchen, so this will have to wait for now. But I just had to show it to you; it's a fun idea, for the right space.
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How do you store your cookbooks?
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My wife and I use a Sepien book shelf (short) from DWR to store our cookbooks, just outside of our kitchen.
I kinda love this. The bright wall color totally makes it. Betcha it'd work with white shelving on my teal walls.
*plots*
My favorite part is all the little tabbies sticking out of the books. It makes it look real, not like a display for a magazine. And it makes it brilliant.
I have been eyeing up my own kitchen walls since Cheryl posted this pic on 5 Second Rule! Photographs are about to get redirected to another wall so books get a little more love in the kitchen. Great idea Cheryl!
Looks like clutter to me.
Seems pretentious to me.
Love this idea! I am toying with a pot rack or shelves on one wall in my kitchen...this may sway me. I have mine tucked away in the buffet in the dining room, and only pull them out once in a while...this may trigger my memory of an Ina Garten recipe I saw, or something from the Frontera cookbook, that I just don't think of when it's dinnertime. Cool idea!!!
Ehhh, I prefer to keep them on their own designated shelf on my regular old bookshelf. This form of display seems a bit too "bookstore" for me, and with the tabs it just looks messy. Of course all my own books are tabbed as well, but they're hidden when the book is placed spine-out on the shelf.
Good idea! I don't use my cookbooks as much as I'd like. Thinking of a way I could modify this idea to fit into our space...
I love this. I know exactly where I'm going to do this! Gah, thank you, blogosphere, for the constant inspiration. :)