I love my all-white library, but sometimes I wish we'd been able to throw up a coat of colorful paint before we moved everything in. Now that our 2,000-odd books have made themselves at home, the odds are slim to none we'll move them back out to paint (plus, that's one more room we might have to paint back when we move out, which is just - ugh.). I've been toying with the idea of putting patterned paper behind the open shelf backs as an alternative, though, so here's a sampling of inspiration.