When styling a bookcase without books it’s ok to display a few of your books, the key is to choose books in the correct color scheme!
Here’s my tips on how to create your own personalised styled bookshelves:
- Empty the shelves of everything! You must start with a clean slate to enable you to see things in a different way to how they have previously been.
- Hunt out all your old trinkets and pretty things around your house, stashed in cupboards etc, your’ll be amazed at what you find. You may wish to display mementos or meaningful photo’s in small frames or colourful vases or flowers…basically anything you like to look at.
- Sort by colour group books together with same/similar coloured spines.
- Create small batches of books which then can be displaying standing up vertical or laying down flat horizontal, the pile of books can be in two’s (like mine) but should be no more than eight. My shelf height is quite small but if you have enough height a small plant or trinket looks great displayed on top of the horizontal pile of books.
- Change it up if you have one pile of books standing up then add another pile of books near it laying flat and alternate the way the books are stacked.
- Once all the books are shelved – bring out the pretty things slowly start to layer up with your chosen trinkets/candles/ornaments etc placing on shelf space or/and on piles of books. The trick here is that you are creating layers of interest rather than looking at a line of books that are all the same depth.
- Stand back to take a look keep tweaking it until it feels right but know when to stop. I like to take a quick photo on my phone, it helps me view it in a different way to see what needs changing.
- And you are done! There’s no wrong or right way, it’s all about what is visually pleasing to you, so what are you waiting for, can’t wait to see what yours looks like.
I had a big de-clutter session last week so mine is currently styled with a minimal vibe with very few books/trinkets. This photo shows one half of our wall mounted bookcase from Ikea which sits high above the tv in our living room. These aren’t all my books but just a couple I choose because of color. The shelf isn’t tall enough for me to have mine vertical. I had a few mini glass bottles hanging around and a little green vase that compliments my little plant. I love candles so hence the two beautiful glass candle jars. My mom has recently starting crafting and has been making tiny ornate chairs out of champagne bottle tops so this was the perfect place to display them.
I will change it up again soon as we get into summer, probably with a bit more on it and perhaps a floral theme.
Hope you’ve enjoyed this post, it is a little different to my usual beauty reviews.
Secondblonde x
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