- We're going to look at a preppy coastal
with a touch of Bohemian styled book case in this case.
I'm excited to show you how I would style this.
So I'm going to start just by placing
some of my larger items, artwork first, a few larger vases.
And as we go through the bookcase styling
you're going to find that I will nudge things around,
I'll start moving things.
This is exactly what you should do too,
wherever you set something initially it doesn't have
to be its final resting place.
You can start moving things
around as the bookcase starts to come together
but I'm going to start layering in some of my taller pieces
keeping in mind that I don't want
all of my tall pieces to be on the same shelf
or within the same grouping.
We're next going to start layering in some books
and some smaller accessories.
So you want to give yourself a little bit of wiggle room
and not group all of your big pieces together.
So I'm going to start pulling in some of these
other colored vases and mixing in some good glass pieces,
some ceramic, I'll pull in some wood elements as well.
I liked that these still work with the preppy coastal
because they give it this vibe of driftwood,
a little bit of that natural element that you would find
in a coastal vibe or a coastal environment.
Next I'm going to start gathering some of my books
and I'll show you how to style those as well.
What I really like about books
is that no matter what the title is,
the color is, they're pretty style-agnostic.
A lot of us have books, whether it's just a few or hundreds
we need a place to put them
and they're going to work with any style
no matter what you're trying to do with your book case
or what direction you're trying to go in.
Because we're looking at a preppy coastal book case
I've actually pulled in a lot of books
that mimic those same colors.
So we can start layering these in,
you'll want to do a good mix of horizontal books
as well as some books stacked vertically,
we'll just start filling in some of these empty spaces.
So now that we've started placing some of our larger books
the next step is to fill in with some smaller accessories.
So this can be knickknacks
that you have around the house, small vases
and even items that you wouldn't necessarily expect
to find in a bookcase.
This can be a really cute picture, a sugar dish
any other household objects that you can start
to fill in these spaces.
So I'm going to gather those
and show you how to place those as well.
I actually have some traditional bookends.
These are a little pineapples, which is very coastal
and a great way to continue on with that theme.
So now we can start layering in
some of these other pieces that we have here
to fill out the rest of our vignettes.
I'm going to focus on this one here
because it's still feeling a little bit empty.
We have one tall vase and our little stack of books,
I want to around this out.
And keeping in line with our grouping of three,
this is a really great spot to include one more small vase
to create this little element here
that has this really nice grounding effect
allows our eye again, to go from high to low and back again.
This does still feel a little bit empty
and we have some room to fill in to get that vertical height
that we've been looking for.
I am going to pull in some greenery
as a great little finishing touch
for this little vignette here.
That to me is looking pretty good so we can move on,
come back to this vignette here to really round this out.
We don't have a ton of depth,
so what I want to do is add something in front here
that's really going to make this feel
a little more complete, fill in some of that negative space.
Something like, let's use this little bird,
it's playful, it's fun and it's something that'll work
with a lot of different styles.
So this is starting to feel a little more complete to me.
We got to focus on some of these vignettes behind me.
In this vignette here, we have a lot of height,
whether it's from the glass vase
or these tall cutting boards.
And we need something to draw our eye back down
and bring us back full circle.
So I'm going to add something a little bit lower right here.
Something like this little ball
is a great playful way to pull in the glass color.
This really great sea green,
and then tie it into this vignette
to create this really nice rounded out effect.
What I'm really not lacking so far is tying in this plant.
He needs a friend, we need a little bit more greenery
to, again balance out the space
and give us something to land on over here.
That's a little bit similar to what we already have
on the opposite side of the book case.
I'm going to use this great aloe plant,
this is feeling a little empty with books.
So if you're someone who does have a lot of books
use your book case to your advantage,
you can start pulling in as many
or as few books as you'd like.
What I like to do when I'm styling my own book cases
is group my books by color.
When you're styling your own book cases
you don't always have to do these small groups of books,
you can actually do something a little bit more dramatic
and put a large grouping of books all together in one place.
It's looking better, but not quite what I want,
I'm going to move some things around again.
Let's do a good mix of some books that are vertical,
some books that are horizontal.
This gives us a nice natural spot for us
to put our plant, gives us some vertical height
really balances it out, ties into the other plant
that we have over here
and gives us a more complete vignette.
You'll start to notice as you're filling in your book case
that as you get towards the end,
this is where you're going to start to rearrange things.
They're not going to be exactly where you want them to
and that's perfectly okay.
So right now I'm struggling
'cause I have this empty space and I need to fill it
with something that's not too colorful,
'cause we have a lot of color going on here
and also something that's not too tall
and fits really well proportion-wise
with the other pieces around it.
So I'm going to pull in
this really sculptural white piece here.
Obviously, it's not very colorful
but adds a really great element of interest.
So I'm going to start with that
and layer in a couple other smaller pieces.
Another thing that this vignette
to me is kind of lacking is this element of gold.
We don't have a ton of that seen throughout the book case,
so this is something that we can easily pull in
to create a more cohesive look,
so I'm going to pull in this little mister.
Then we can take a step back, look at your book case
and again, start to identify where those gaps are.
I'm seeing that there's a little bit of a wide space here,
so I want to fill that in.
Looking back at this book case again,
it's almost exactly where I want it to be.
As we look at this preppy coastal book case
in its final stages we can really start
to notice the color palette.
It's very different from where we started
with the client's original book case, but we've kept it
to a pretty cohesive color palette of cool colors.
The main colors I focused on here
are these blues, purples, little bits of green
and a few pops of a warmer pinker salmon.
To give myself this sense of balance,
I've made sure not to group too many colors together
and I've really spread out my blues, my purples, my greens
all of that to create this really nice sense of balance.
So within each vignette like this one here
I have the blue vase, a little bit of blue here
with the vase and the bowls, a blue in the ocean artwork
a little bit of this kind of cool green, not quite blue
but still gives us that color there in this little vignette,
some blue in the books.
And even though in this top vignette
there's not a true blue.
We get a lot of those cool grays that give you
that same feeling and still creates that sense
of blue harmony throughout the rest of the bookcase.
With this color palette
we've also kept a really soft, subdued,
more muted color palette in mind.
So none of these colors are super saturated,
they all have a little bit of this smokey gray haze to them.
For instance, this purple vase is not a bright purple,
it's more of a really soft lilac.
You'll see that mimicked here with a more subdued blue
this really soft seafoam green.
And then again with some of these more muted colors
over in this neutral vignette.
So within each of these vignettes, I've kept in mind
that I want to have a little bit of asymmetry,
nothing that's too much taller or too much smaller
but something that creates this sense of balance.
We have a couple pieces that are a little bit taller
that draw your eye down naturally,
as opposed to some of the other vignettes in this bookcase
our tallest piece is actually our group of books.
So that's where your eye naturally starts
and we layer it in with a couple of smaller pieces.
So your eye naturally draws to this medium height vase
back down to this small little bud vase
down to the pineapple and then back up again.
Which creates this really nice sense of proportion
and scale within that vignette.
To round out this preppy coastal book case,
we're going to focus on rhythm and repetition
and the idea of having these repeated elements
throughout our style book.
As we've talked about,
color is a really great way to pull this in.
We've already highlighted the blue
but one other thing to look at is that I've also pulled
in this kind of curve ball color of this pink salmon color.
So I have it up here in this top shelf
and then I've also pulled a little bit
of it in on the opposite side.
This immediately is going to give you
this sense of repetition because it's in the opposite sides
of the bookcase allows your eye to go
from side-to-side and back.
So creates this really nice sense
of drawing the eye throughout the bookcase.
Once you've gone through
and placed your final elements in your book case,
remember that it's not necessarily done.
You can always go back and change things up
if you're looking for a creative outlet,
maybe you find a new book or you want to shake up
and add a new piece of artwork or a new picture frame,
your book case is never done.
Those elements that we're applying
into the book case here can
also transcend into other parts of your home.
So once you've really nailed your book case
and you feel like you're in a really good spot
you understand these principles
and you understand your design style.
This is where you can start to pull your knowledge
into the rest of your room.
You can experiment with styling, other elements
like your sofa, your bed, pulling in pops of color,
experimenting with gallery walls
and using this foundational knowledge
to really create a cohesive and full design for yourself.
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