Speaking from personal experience,
some of the hardest places to
decorate are the shelves in our home,
we tend to put lots of things on them and
then we wonder why don't they look styled?
Well, there are a few designer
tricks to styling shelves,
and amity got a lesson from
Lucky home designer Lisa Huffer.
OK bookshelves, these to me
are some of the hardest things to decorate,
and the Christmas time it's great
because I put lots of Christmas stuff.
But just during the the regular time
of year it just looks messy so I'm
really excited that you're going to
kind of tell us how to how to build a
bookshelf design vignettes exactly and
we get so many customers and asking the
same thing whether it's built Inns or
standalone bookshelf like this. Right
now, we kind of have it set up very neutral.
So as we look at the shelves,
especially the first couple ones,
we just see different heights,
different materials, books are terrific.
Either real ones are. These
are kind of their real books,
but they're kind of bound
together for just impact beads
that we talked about before.
Different textures.
Kind of woven throughout.
So glass, wood all the textures.
Hmm, So what is the
biggest mistake people make when they
start building their bookcase? Probably
the biggest mistake is they put a
lot of little things on their shelves
and nothing really catches your eye.
So I just always suggest by
less bigger things and create
small vignettes on each shelf.
Is there kind of a
rule to making a vignette?
I noticed here I like how things are
either in threes or or just kind of
off center like there's two here,
but there's like 4 here. Is that
a rule? I? I suppose there is kind of a rule,
but I just like to have a little bit
break for your eye so it's not just all
together and so even things at an angle
create that everything is kind of
tilted. With a little separation,
I love that, so if something
doesn't look quite right,
maybe try to, but it doesn't make it
right. Maybe add a little rice or
under something to lift it up a
little bit so that kind of gives you
your basic backdrop for year round
for year round. But obviously
spring has sprung and we want to,
let's say add a little bit of color.
How do you do that without
changing out the whole thing,
because no one can afford
no? So you leave pretty
much everything you have.
That's just everyday merchandise,
and you might want to pick
a few colors that you're.
Interested in to draw from and so
today we kind of picked like sunshine
yellow and the bright pop of orange,
so we'll just kind of start building
our shelf and making it just a little
bit more spring like so that kind of
is a great focal point and you look
at that shelf and it looks complete
and this is fun because I know that
this is kind of what you're doing
with our set on new day Northwest.
It's kind of got its baseline,
but you brought in this bright pop of
yellow tulips that really adds such pizzazz.
This is what it is. What else have you
got? Well then we might want to
add like a little touch of whimsy.
Now this is just a teeny little wreath,
but let's take our candle
here and just pop it on top.
And then you've got some beautiful
white flowers. That's super simple.
Yeah, super cute.
We have, you know birds we use for
everything around here and so we
can just tuck this little guy we
wanted to add a little bit of orange
for the spring too so that fits in
perfectly right there so it's OK
to mix the orange and the
yellow and it doesn't have to
be monochromatic. It's one pop
of color. Or
it's a couple, but they're gonna
be represented on the shelves and
almost like a Serpentine fashion.
You'll see a little yellow. I think there's
some orange tulips right
behind you if you want to hand
me flowers. So
we're gonna add a little
orange up here because this
is all black and neutral now.
We've added a touch of orange that
ties in with the orange down here.
I see what you've done here.
Alright? I have some more over here.
What about these beautiful daffodils?
So those are pretty and they
kind of are a softer yellow,
almost a kind of off white,
but they are gonna tuck in right here.
And that cute vase?
That's very nice.
We've already have
this seasonal green that works perfectly.
So another part of finding kind
of the base stuff is buying
vases and things that can add by
putting different flowers in.
Keeping that in mind,
or buying vases you just love,
and that one often I'll walk
around the store with customers.
Just what are you drawn to?
What do you love?
And then we can pull it all together.
And we do. So much of that.
So when someone
says Hugh Lisa, I've got this bookshelf.
What do you do? Do you go to their house?
We. Do I do a lot of in home consultation
and often just literally almost take
every load up my car with accessories
to take to their home to do their books?
OK, that sounds like it's super fun and
usually I'll have the client
walk away for a little bit,
do their whole shelves and
they walk back in the room
and then they can pick and choose
what they actually want to purchase.
That is so much fun.
It's really fun for your bookshelves.
One thing though,
that I don't think we've addressed
yet is kind of the personal touches.
Family photos I know that I've
got a few awards on my bookshelf
that I'd like to keep there.
How do you incorporate that with
this classy look? So let's add
like a few frames this frame and we sell all
kinds of frames in the store,
but often people have their own,
So what you'd wanna do instead of lining
up one whole shelf with pictures of family,
you're going to want to try to tuck them
into what you already have going on.
So just and it just is a classier
way to do it for this one.
Maybe we can kind of tuck him back
here if you have awards or anything.
Just create almost like I said earlier,
simple little videos.
Perhaps swap out, you know the
white vase for an award or
would sure if you had an award or a
trophy that you wanted to sit there.
You could. You just want to soften it
up so you maybe have a little greenery
around it so it's just not so harsh.
One more thing I forgot is
this yellow ball. We have this
on set too and I love this thing.
It looks like it looks like a pollen
attack, but it's not real. Why
is something like this so important?
Well again because you want to just kind
of repeat the color on all the shelves.
A little bit everywhere,
so we can just tuck him in.
Here you can add him to that ball so
it just creates a little grouping,
and then we kind of put this
together earlier but just a
basket representing the oranges,
greens and yellow.
OK can be kind of tucked down here
on the shelf and there you have it.
You've got your black,
white and green and wood that's
here all year and now we've just
added the yellow and orange.
Such great tips and I love that Amity asked,
can I put my Emmy here?
Lucky home is full of grape vines
and ideas to style your shelves.
Located in Issaquah Gilman village,
they are ready to help you free
of charge with any design needs.