Technically, it's a TV nook and it used to be our living room, but my black kitty, iMac, started chewing on cords so our TV was moved to the guest bedroom. Then we got a new dining room table and our furniture fit better when we switched our living room with our dining room. It's pretty much one big open space with the kitchen, so it doesn't look weird. Plus, I love having the table by the large windows now.
Back to the shelves... we removed a Kroger receipt from April 2011 (no idea how that got there), old The Far Side calendars (we have the two book set of every comic so they were redundant), and Dear John on DVD (lets just say there's a reason why we received it as a white elephant gift). Here are the shelves before. Notice the messy stacks on top? We also found some DVDs on the desk in our guest bedroom.
And here is the after! We put our TV show DVDs across the top of the bookshelf to make room for the movies on the DVD shelves. I was hoping to fit some DVDs on the top shelf, but they were just slightly too tall. Since there was room, I also added some of our baby's books that didn't have a place go go to the top shelf of the bookshelf. The Far Side books that were there previously got relocated to the bottom of the end table that used to hold our games. Now the DVDs are in alphabetical order with the exception of kids movies, car movies, and what my husband calls his Epic movies. It may not make the biggest difference in the room, but it definitely looks neater and will make it easier to find our movies!
We also have plans to make a list of all our movies to save as a note on our iPhones so that when we are out and about and see a movie we want to buy we can remember if we have it or not. My husband also plans to watch all of our movies in alphabetical order to decide if he wants to get rid of any (but I'm thinking more just for fun, ha ha). It will definitely make for some free date nights!
Do you have lots of movies? Do you sort them alphabetically, by genre, or not at all?
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