Shelves are a precious ally in furnishing: just a few shelves, a few tricks and a wall is perfectly furnished. Let’s see together some ideas to embellish your shelves.
Have you recently furnished your home? Do you want to revolutionize a wall, a bookcase? So arm yourself with photos, frames, vases, plants, books, bouquets and any collector’s item you want to exhibit!
Balance between full and empty
Balancing spaces is the first fundamental rule for embellishing a shelf. As a first step it is important to understand if the shelf will hold all the weight that you intend to upload. Once we are sure of this, we see the position that the shelf occupies on the wall.
As Marie Kondo, the KonMari method guru, always says, it is good to position things visually bulky or heavy in shelves more bass. So, suppose you have to store some books, a frame and a jar and you have three shelves to choose from: the books will go on the lowest shelf, the jar on the middle one and the frame on the highest one.
Read also: How to organize your home library: the 8 best solutions
If, on the other hand, there is only one plane available on which to arrange the objects, it will be necessary to balance the full and empty: we do not excessively load only one side but, on the contrary, we try to to divide the shelf in three. Left, central and right side: one object on each side – leaving the center free – or, alternatively, fill all three areas equally.
The measure of objects
To enrich the shelves you can choose objects of various size. The more variety there is, the more harmonious the shelves will be!
If you have large and small decorations available, start by placing them first large. Gradually the small ones will be inserted, in order to fill the spaces among the most voluminous.
You might be interested in: 10 ideas for decorating the living room with the bookcase
It is also nice to play on heights to create movement on the shelf.
For example, a set of bottles of different sizes and heights will perfectly furnish the shelf even on their own!
The “green touch”
How many times have we seen beautiful plants on the shelves? You may not know but most of them are fake!
In fact, most plants need a lot of light, water and obviously they will grow quickly. So the choice falls, especially on the shelves, on the artificial plants. These won’t grow – forcing you to change the arrangement of objects – and they don’t need healing to survive. A touch of green it’s always a lot decorative and helps make an environment less sterile.
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Also adorable dried bouquets, make the shelf romantic and they often bring sweet memories to mind.
Colors
Very important in the choice of decorations is the chromatic scale. By combining objects withfurniture of the room will bind to it perfectly, enriching it. Another possibility is to play on the contrast: they will stand out and draw attention to them!
The vases
Travel souvenirs, DIY, collectibles… The vases are always beautiful. A touch chic if chosen in lacquered enamel or metal, an air a little rough if chosen of terracotta or decorative concrete. The fact is that even a single vase is enough to complete and embellish a shelf.
The books
With the individual shelves it is possible to create one library or, by aligning them, a long shelf that runs along the entire wall and the room. The latest trend in the decorative field is to turn the books and show the opposite side to the back cover. It goes without saying that this option is only recommended in operation aesthetics.
A tip: go to markets and choose the tomes more ancient is details.
The frames
Customizing the shelves and racks is what makes a environment cozy and hot. Choosing frames in style with the furniture and matching them chromatically will give that touch of familiarity and uniqueness on the wall.
Green light to family photos, portraits, photos of our four-legged friends or simply some artwork.
A mini gallery
There are shelves specially designed to support paintings, the U-shaped ones.
These are perfect for showing one collection, photos of a travel, watercolors or other. Beautiful if placed on the sofa.
The symmetry
If we choose to decorate groups of shelves or overlapping shelves we must take into account the universal law of design: theharmony/symmetry. By placing the chosen objects we will try to form imaginary diagonals (as an example in the photo) and the location of the objects on the shelf immediately next to or immediately below will always be taken into consideration.
One should try to harmonize the forms as much as possible. The trick is to step back to see if the balances have been respected!
The rule of 3
The possibility of to divide ideally a shelf in three and place the decorations according to the harmony of the three divisions. Apparently the eye tries some kind of pleasure when, even if unwilling, the objects are grouped in three by three.
So maybe you can place near three different plants, three books, three vases, three bouquets and so on… it will turn out harmonically everything more pleasant!
Functional shelf
In case you want to join theaesthetics to functionality, it is good to know that one shelf-bar it is of great impact and gives a lot of class to an environment. Great for storing glasses, goblets, bar tender tools but also for displaying the most precious or favorite bottles. A shelf of this type with a piece of furniture used for cocktellerie create the bar corner of our dreams.
Ideas for shelves: pictures and photos
Shelves are a precious ally in furnishing: just a few shelves, a few tricks and a wall is perfectly furnished. Let’s see together some ideas to embellish your shelves.
Have you recently furnished your home? Do you want to revolutionize a wall, a bookcase? So arm yourself with photos, frames, vases, plants, books, bouquets and any collector’s item you want to exhibit!
Balance between full and empty
Balancing spaces is the first fundamental rule for embellishing a shelf. As a first step it is important to understand if the shelf will hold all the weight that you intend to upload. Once we are sure of this, we see the position that the shelf occupies on the wall.
As Marie Kondo, the KonMari method guru, always says, it is good to position things visually bulky or heavy in shelves more bass. So, suppose you have to store some books, a frame and a jar and you have three shelves to choose from: the books will go on the lowest shelf, the jar on the middle one and the frame on the highest one.
Read also: How to organize your home library: the 8 best solutions
If, on the other hand, there is only one plane available on which to arrange the objects, it will be necessary to balance the full and empty: we do not excessively load only one side but, on the contrary, we try to to divide the shelf in three. Left, central and right side: one object on each side – leaving the center free – or, alternatively, fill all three areas equally.
The measure of objects
To enrich the shelves you can choose objects of various size. The more variety there is, the more harmonious the shelves will be!
If you have large and small decorations available, start by placing them first large. Gradually the small ones will be inserted, in order to fill the spaces among the most voluminous.
You might be interested in: 10 ideas for decorating the living room with the bookcase
It is also nice to play on heights to create movement on the shelf.
For example, a set of bottles of different sizes and heights will perfectly furnish the shelf even on their own!
The “green touch”
How many times have we seen beautiful plants on the shelves? You may not know but most of them are fake!
In fact, most plants need a lot of light, water and obviously they will grow quickly. So the choice falls, especially on the shelves, on the artificial plants. These won’t grow – forcing you to change the arrangement of objects – and they don’t need healing to survive. A touch of green it’s always a lot decorative and helps make an environment less sterile.
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
Also adorable dried bouquets, make the shelf romantic and they often bring sweet memories to mind.
Colors
Very important in the choice of decorations is the chromatic scale. By combining objects withfurniture of the room will bind to it perfectly, enriching it. Another possibility is to play on the contrast: they will stand out and draw attention to them!
The vases
Travel souvenirs, DIY, collectibles… The vases are always beautiful. A touch chic if chosen in lacquered enamel or metal, an air a little rough if chosen of terracotta or decorative concrete. The fact is that even a single vase is enough to complete and embellish a shelf.
The books
With the individual shelves it is possible to create one library or, by aligning them, a long shelf that runs along the entire wall and the room. The latest trend in the decorative field is to turn the books and show the opposite side to the back cover. It goes without saying that this option is only recommended in operation aesthetics.
A tip: go to markets and choose the tomes more ancient is details.
The frames
Customizing the shelves and racks is what makes a environment cozy and hot. Choosing frames in style with the furniture and matching them chromatically will give that touch of familiarity and uniqueness on the wall.
Green light to family photos, portraits, photos of our four-legged friends or simply some artwork.
A mini gallery
There are shelves specially designed to support paintings, the U-shaped ones.
These are perfect for showing one collection, photos of a travel, watercolors or other. Beautiful if placed on the sofa.
The symmetry
If we choose to decorate groups of shelves or overlapping shelves we must take into account the universal law of design: theharmony/symmetry. By placing the chosen objects we will try to form imaginary diagonals (as an example in the photo) and the location of the objects on the shelf immediately next to or immediately below will always be taken into consideration.
One should try to harmonize the forms as much as possible. The trick is to step back to see if the balances have been respected!
The rule of 3
The possibility of to divide ideally a shelf in three and place the decorations according to the harmony of the three divisions. Apparently the eye tries some kind of pleasure when, even if unwilling, the objects are grouped in three by three.
So maybe you can place near three different plants, three books, three vases, three bouquets and so on… it will turn out harmonically everything more pleasant!
Functional shelf
In case you want to join theaesthetics to functionality, it is good to know that one shelf-bar it is of great impact and gives a lot of class to an environment. Great for storing glasses, goblets, bar tender tools but also for displaying the most precious or favorite bottles. A shelf of this type with a piece of furniture used for cocktellerie create the bar corner of our dreams.
