Simple Ways to Style Beautiful Bookshelves
Topic
Decorative objects for shelves: vases, bowls, frames, plants and collections, and how to place them among books.
5 guides
Eight display ideas that help a collection look curated instead of crowded: group it, give it a shelf of its own, order it by size or color, raise the back row and leave room around the best piece.
Where trailing, upright and small plants look best on a bookcase, how to choose pots that suit the shelves, and what to use when a shelf is too dim for a live plant.
A step-by-step way to add photos and small art to shelves: choose one or two frames, size them to the opening, lean them at the back and layer books or objects in front.
How to group and place vases and bowls on a bookshelf: sort them by shape, vary the heights, leave most empty, raise bowls on book stacks and keep finishes in one color family.
A guide to the seven families of bookshelf objects, the job each one does, and how to choose them by size, material and color using what you already own.
