Our Method To Decorate A Bookcase - best of DTT
Decorating Tips and Tricks
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🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Armed with our formula for creating a styled & meaningful bookcase you will be able to design your shelves with one eye closed & a hand tied behind your back! Fool proof tips & advice for a space that is hard to get right.
We start off with a controversy of sorts ... find out which way we land on it!
Not just books, but decorative items, photos, slavage pieces, tall, short, medium height there is a place for so many of your special things on your bookshelf, but not too many of them.
Listen in for the formula to designing a stunning bookcase.
Have a read of Kelly's post which likens designing a bookcase to a legal case. Fun read - click HERE.
Decorate a bookcase for spring click HERE.
Decorate a bookcase holiday style click HERE.
Here are links to some of what we mentioned:
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Boxwood balls click HERE.
Stacked boxes click HERE.
Cloche click HERE. Love the sparkly top on this one!
Kelly's Ikea crush, the Gladom Tray, which is actually a table. See it HERE.
Anita is enjoying the new adaptation of Vanity Faire. Check it out HERE.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Decorating Tips and Tricks. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to Decorating Tips and Tricks. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Anita Joyce with Kelly Wilkins, the best method for decorating a bookcase. |
| 0:18.4 | I do love this. Isn't this fun? Don't you love doing bookcases, |
| 0:22.2 | Kelly? I do. I actually have a lot of blog posts on bookcases, but the funny thing is I don't |
| 0:27.0 | have a bookcase in this current house. Oh, stop it. I don't. I want one. I was going to put one in the |
| 0:33.2 | living room, but then I went for that Che's lounge that I was talking about. But I am going to have a |
| 0:39.3 | bookcase someplace. And when I do, I will use our own great tips for when I decorate it. But I have |
| 0:45.9 | had plenty of bookcases in the past. So fear not. So we need not worry. You have experience with |
| 0:52.7 | this. Is what you're trying to say. Yes, I am. I do. |
| 0:56.2 | Yes, I know. It's more than just books. And unless you're a librarian or you have a room in your |
| 1:02.5 | house that is an actual library, then you probably want to be jazzing up your bookcase with items other than books. |
| 1:08.7 | And so we're going to tell you how to do that today and the best |
| 1:11.5 | possible method. Are we ready to get started? Yes. Okay. Well, you know, it's interesting. I thought |
| 1:21.5 | we might be fun to start with the controversial method that some people use. Do you know what I'm |
| 1:26.1 | talking about? No, I didn't know there |
| 1:28.8 | was a controversy. Oh, my goodness. Yes. This caused a major flap on the internet when bloggers |
| 1:34.7 | started doing that. And what I'm talking about is turning your books backwards. Oh. Okay. |
| 1:43.4 | I love you, but that's not where I would start with this but okay no i'm bringing it up |
| 1:49.3 | because oh we're going to get it out of the way yeah just get it out of the way it's i'm sorry it's |
| 1:54.3 | dumb i'm sorry it's just i mean you know you want you want my opinion i'm a nice person, you know, the part about being a nice person, too, is you'll tell your friend when something is dumb. I don't think you do this, but I kind of think that is dumb. I mean, if somebody wants to do it in their house for a certain look, but I mean, come on. It's, it's books. You should be enjoying the books. I mean, I get selecting some books because you like |
| 2:20.8 | the color of their spine, particularly if they're vintage books and you're not going to be |
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