Simple Ways to Style Beautiful Bookshelves
Topic
Styling compact bookcases, floating shelves and the shelves in bedrooms and home offices.
4 guides
Zone your office shelving so it works as storage and as a video-call backdrop: styled shelves behind your head, matching boxes and magazine files within reach, and bulky items down low.
How to style bedroom shelves so they are quiet enough to sleep beside: a palette taken from the bedding, tonal books, a few personal pieces, closed baskets down low and a simple nightstand shelf.
Compose wall shelves like a picture: a tall-medium-low scene on one shelf, staggered groups on two and a zigzag on three, using a few light pieces and open ends.
Style a narrow or low bookcase with fewer, larger pieces: books on the shelves, the display on top, a tight palette and a basket below. Includes a worked three-shelf example.
