Tips For Styling Your Cabinets + Shelves
Are you experiencing a creative block when it comes to styling your shelves or display cabinets? Maybe you’re stuck on how to arrange your decorative pieces and fill those empty spaces? Below you will find some tips on how to get creative with your interiors at home.
Tip 1: Pinpoint empty spaces
At times it can be overwhelming beginning the styling process. The trick is to simplify the room you’ve chosen to restyle and pinpoint its empty spaces. A great way to start is by filling the shelves of your feature cabinet.
Tip 2: Decide on a colour scheme
Colour has a significant impact on the mood of a room. Ask yourself, “does the room surrounding me look dull?” or “is this room a little too busy?”. Once you’ve determined your colour scheme, you can begin your styling process.
Tip 3: Books, books & more books!
To no surprise, books are ideal for filling space, especially for those longer cabinet shelves that offer a lot of negative space. By simply stacking books upright in a row or piled on top of one another you can drastically change the space and start to tell a story with your cabinet display. Make the shelf pop by rearranging and coordinating the books by the colours of their spine.
Tip 5: Move, fiddle, replace & repeat
Styling is a playful and on-going process in order to make the space look and feel ‘right’. When it comes to styling your shelves, expect to experiment and move objects around before you achieve the desired look. Colours, shapes and textures will come together at the end of the day with some patience and a little creative play!
Tip 6: Less is more!
This final tip says it all. The last thing you want in a room is to feel overwhelmed so it’s important to know when enough is enough and to remind yourself that less is more!
