My 5 Favorite Tips For Styling Bookshelves

Welcome to My Five Favorites today! Pam from Simple Details, Lisa from Shine Your Light and I are all then excited to percentage amongst you lot today. Our friend Kris from Driven yesteryear Decor is taking the calendar month off, she'll hold upwardly dorsum amongst us side yesteryear side time. Today we're spilling our 5 favorite tips for styling bookshelves. Shelves are an surface area that tin hold upwardly tricky to discovery the correct residual when decorating, then nosotros promise that about of this advice is helpful for you lot today!

We are then happy to accept Bethany from Dwellings yesteryear Devore as our invitee host this month. Bethany was 1 of the outset bloggers I followed as well as I was completely star struck yesteryear her awesome projects. Then I got to know her personally (we were fifty-fifty roomies at a weblog conference) as well as I liked her fifty-fifty more! She has such an oculus as well as talent for putting together build clean as well as fresh yet interesting spaces, amongst merely the correct touches of color.

We accept a lot of bookshelves inward our solid inward several dissimilar rooms, then I discovery myself using a combination of books as well as accessories inward all of them. As I looked through photos to assemble about for this post, I was reminded that my living room shelves accept changed several times over the years, then you'll meet several dissimilar looks here! My mode has definitely changed through the years but all of the photos nevertheless illustrate the tips I'll hold upwardly sharing.

TURN BOOKS VERTICALLY and HORIZONTALLY

Obviously, it's our outset instinct to business books upwardly vertically on a shelf. But occasionally, I similar to stack about horizontally equally well. It's a adept means to get upwardly smaller items, or add together about other direction for your oculus to become inward a stand upwardly lonely horizontal stack. This is a adept solution also if you lot accept books that mightiness hold upwardly also large to fit vertically inward your shelf.

DON'T OVERLOOK SHELF BACKS

The dorsum of a bookshelf is the perfect house to add together about involvement amongst color or pattern. My living room shelves accept been multiple colors over the years, but my virtually recent makeover was painting a pattern on the backs of them. If you lot similar the sentiment but don't desire the commitment, purpose a slice of foam board or mat board cutting to size for each department as well as comprehend it amongst wallpaper or fabric, or pigment your ain pattern on it to use. It's slowly to take away if you lot alter your hear later.

You tin also experiment amongst icon the backs an accent color.

In our Office where the shelves are stained oak, I painted merely the backs the same color equally the walls as well as it helped to lighten them upwardly for at nowadays until we're cook to repaint the shelves completely.

Also, endeavor hanging things on the backs of the shelves. H5N1 mirror helps opened upwardly up the infinite as well as reverberate light, as well as if you lot accept express wall infinite it's also a adept chance to hang photos or fine art within the shelves.

USE SYMMETRY WHEN POSSIBLE

We accept a few shelves of children's books inward our office, as well as storing them inward baskets rather than lined upwardly helps travel on them tidier. Using the same baskets keeps the shelves looking cleaner equally well.

I tried to travel on things semi-symmetrical on the shelves flanking the desk inward the component to accept about continuity inward the design. Both laissez passer on shelves accept similar photos as well as accessories, both bottom shelves accept matching storage baskets, as well as the middle shelves accept similar mass arrangements. Symmetry tin attention travel on things from looking also messy, peculiarly when you lot accept large shelves you're filling.

USE SHELVES FOR EXTRA STORAGE OF NON-BOOK ITEMS

With enough of attractive storage boxes, canisters, as well as containers available these days, it's slowly to purpose opened upwardly shelves equally extra storage spell keeping them looking fashionable as well as the things you lot demand at your fingertips.

I shop a lot of my crafting tools as well as sewing supplies inward the jars as well as baskets on our component shelves.

My son's room is really small-scale as well as doesn't allow for a lot of furniture, then this large shelf pulls double duty non solely storing books, but toys, collectables, as well as things similar hats as well as small-scale accessories inward the baskets. Using the storage baskets inward the lower compartments keeps the large unit of measurement looking a chip to a greater extent than polished than filling all of the spaces amongst random items. It's easier to travel on it all inward order, too!

DON'T OVERCROWD YOUR SHELVES

Every chip of infinite on your shelves doesn't demand to hold upwardly filled, exit about breathing room. This shelf inward my living room is a niggling also total at nowadays that I await dorsum at it-

I've since pared it downwards a chip as well as I similar it much better.

The 1 exception to these suggestions... there's non much amend than a existent bookshelf totally packed total of just... books! (like this one!)

Do you lot dearest decorating shelves or practise you lot discovery it a challenge? It's a niggling chip of both for me! Don't forget to caput over to larn to a greater extent than tips from these talented gals, too.

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