Three Simple Steps to Styling Your Bookcases
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Bookcases can be a little tricky, right? You can’t leave them empty and if you’re like most people you don’t have enough books to fill them up! Styling your bookcases has never been easier. Here are three simple steps to styling your bookcases.
Identify the things you are going to put on your shelves. The hardest part really, is deciding what things to use. Here are my favorites.
Things to Put in Your Bookcases
Hardbound books only
Baskets
Vases
Pottery
Jardinière
Plants
Framed pics
Lidded boxes
Votives
Faux moss balls
Candlesticks
Hardbound books
Statuary
Faux fruits
Incense
Step One, Start with Books
Starting with hardbound books at the farthest left point of the top shelf. Place books about one third of the way across the shelf.
Next shelf down, do the same but this time start on the right side.
Next shelf down, do the same on the left side, and so on and so on until all the shelves are filled one third full of hardbound books.
Step Two, Style the Biggest Items
The next items you’ll be working with are the biggest items you have such as baskets and lidded boxes. Starting from the top shelf, work from the right side this time.
Fill in those spots with things like small to medium sized baskets and lidded boxes.
Step Three, Fill in with the Smallest Things
Lastly, simply fill in the blank spaces with all the smaller things, again working from top to bottom.
Super easy!
Shiree’
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That’s it for today. Thank you for stopping by!
Shiree’
And if you’d like to dive deeper into this topic, check out my blog post, “Hiring an Interior Designer”.
June 10, 2020
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