We laid out the books in a rough gradient by color, like this: When I was doing the bookshelves in my house, all my animals came out to play, which inspired Andy to call out: “WHY IS THERE A ZOO IN OUR OFFICE?!” We found some beautiful things hidden in cupboards, like this beautiful silver tea set which deserved more appreciation! It’s all fair game at this point! Make a giant pile that inspires your spouse to think you might have lost it.Įrin and I shopped Jill’s house for anything that might look pretty tucked inside the bookshelves, and grabbed a few things on clearance at target or from our own piles of yard sale accessories. This is the time to pull out everything you’ve been storing with hopes of displaying it someday: your grandmother’s cool vintage teacup collection, smallish frames with meaningful photos, mementos from your wedding day, spare vases in closets, pretty ornaments, colorful jars, anything that you’d love to look at. ![]() This is a pain, but completely necessary to get a fresh slate and allow yourself to see things a different way than How They’ve Always Been.Ĭollect All The Pretty Things in your house that you might want to display. It’s the same process I used for the bookshelves in our office, which store many, many actual books made of actual paper: This is my little process for creating bookshelves that store books but still feel pretty and clean. (We had a small stack of books left over, but almost all of them made it back on the finished shelves.) It feels cleaner and simpler, but without sacrificing the actual storage of the books. Erin and I painted and restyled their shelves, keeping almost ALL the same books, but in a way that feels a little easier on your eyes and more organized: Jill’s family uses this living room for reading and for entertaining, so the idea of getting rid of all their books in exchange for Pretty Things just seemed like it’d be a silly lack of priorities for their real life. You can check out all the posts on her makeover here and the full reveal here. If you’ve been following along, I just did a surprise makeover for my friend Jill while she was on vacation. So what do you do if you own seventy four hundred books, like Jill and her husband do? To the pleather, and to the Disappearing of the Books. I heart you pinterest, you beautiful, gentle lover.īut for real: what if you need to store books on your bookshelves? Like, what if you own a lot of books and need somewhere to put them? Must you give up on form, surrender to function and replace all your furniture with black pleather overstuffed sofas because Lord Knows, those things must be SO comfortable and easy to keep clean? ![]() Pinterest sounds like kind of a jerk right now. ![]() “Yes, you’ll want to claw out your eyeballs if you ever need to find one of the books in order to read it, but that’s the price of beauty, dahhhling.” This is your last and final hope for getting permission to store your books out in the open where people might see.” “In that case, you may painstakingly recover them all in craft paper. “Oh, your book spines are not all within the same color palette?,” Pinterest asks, clucking its tongue disapprovingly. “You can display your books! … As long as they’re all within your color scheme.” If all our bookshelves are getting cleared of the books and replaced with beautiful tchotchkes, where are we supposed to put… our books? ![]() I thought?īut if you go hunting for beautifully styled shelves on pinterest, you’ll start to think that in order to create beautiful bookshelves, you must first rid yourself of all those pesky books and replace them with Pretty Things That Need Dusting.īut um. It’s an emergency.Īll the styled bookshelves are devoid of books! Bookshelves are shelves… for books. Someone is hiding them from us! All those volumes mankind has been printing for the past hundreds of years since the invention of the printing press - oh yes I did just bring up the invention of the printing press and no I don’t know when that was without googling it - all the books are disappearing, you guys.
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