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Bookshelf Styling: Collected, Cozy & Full of Personality
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items Your shelves should tell on you a little: the books you reread, the photo you refuse to replace, the odd little bird that makes you smile. This bookshelf styling collection mixes affordable storage and small accents with stone bookends and larger boo...
A larger gift for a reader who wants their book storage to look considered. This pair of travertine bookends adds pale stone texture beside colorful spines. Let them be the main accent on one shelf rather than surrounding them with more objects. Chec...
Durres Travertine Bookends, Set of 2
A small brown glass vase adds a warm note without taking over the shelf. At 6.5 inches tall, it can sit beside a short stack of books or a framed photo. Try it empty first, then add a single stem if the arrangement needs height. Keep water-filled ves...
Eider Brown Glass Bud Vase 6.5"
The shelf needs one slightly ridiculous thing. This natural wood kiwi bird brings a playful shape among all the straight book spines, and its neutral tone works with colorful collections. Give it a little empty space so the silhouette can be seen. A ...
Natural Wood Kiwi Bird
Colin King’s hardcover is for the person who keeps rearranging the same five objects until they feel right. It looks at composing displays with things you already own, making it a useful companion to a shelf refresh. Read it for ideas, then leave it ...
"Arranging Things" Home Decor Book by Colin King
Trailing faux greenery softens the edge of a shelf without watering near your books. This string-of-fishhooks plant comes in a black pot, giving you a complete accent rather than another planter to find. Let the stems fall into an open gap, not acros...
Potted Faux Green String of Fishhooks in Black Pot
A practical starting point for a home library, with a warm walnut-look finish and adjustable shelves. This is the 31½-inch-wide, 11-inch-deep, 79½-inch-tall version. The finish is an effect, not solid walnut. Measure the room, check your largest book...
BILLY Bookcase - brown walnut effect 31 1/2x11x79 1/2 "
The bigger room-refresh option: gray-green shelving gives books and warm wood accents a colored backdrop without painting the wall. This HEMNES is 35⅜ inches wide and 77½ inches tall. It is a purchase to plan with the recipient, not a surprise delive...
HEMNES Bookcase - gray-green/light brown stained 35 3/8x77 1/2 "
For the person who notices every doorway on a city walk. Susan Kaufman’s New York photography book collects townhouses, parks and street views in a hardcover worth opening. Pair it with a travel photo or a souvenir already on the shelf. A thoughtful ...
"Walk With Me: New York" Home Decor Book
Athena Calderone’s hardcover looks inside the homes of designers and other creative people, with ideas to bring back to your own rooms. Choose it for someone interested in interiors, rather than buying a book only for its spine color. It works in a s...
"Live Beautiful" Hardcover Book
Four mini faux succulents give you a small-scale alternative to trailing greenery. Place one beside a photo and use the others around the room instead of lining all four up on one shelf. They need no growing light or watering, which makes them useful...
Faux Mini Potted Succulents, Set of 4
A marble pear is a small indulgence with no job beyond making the shelf more interesting. The warm beige stone looks good beside cookbooks, travel books or dark wood. This listing is for one decorative pear. Choose it instead of another sculpture if ...
Tuscan Beige Marble Decorative Pear
An extravagant version of a wonderfully simple game. Beige and white marble pieces make this playable tic-tac-toe set a gift for someone who enjoys both design and game nights. Display it on a roomy, sturdy shelf or a coffee table, then bring it out ...
Marble 3D Tic Tac Toe Game
Hide charging cables, spare bookmarks and little desk items behind a clean white box and bamboo lid. This compact 7 by 10¼ by 3¼ inch combination is listed by IKEA as fitting BILLY. Check the exact size when ordering because the KUGGIS range includes...
KUGGIS Box with lid - white/bamboo 7x10 ¼x3 ¼ "
Small drawers keep pens, labels and those things that disappear into a junk drawer close to hand. MOPPE’s untreated birch plywood can be painted or stained, making it a useful project for someone who likes to personalize their home. The chest is 7 in...
MOPPE Mini storage chest - birch plywood 12 ¼x7x12 5/8 "
Give magazines and loose reading material a home that looks calmer than a leaning pile. These natural-tone magazine files come as a pair, so you can separate current reading from things to keep. Label them clearly and measure your shelf depth before ...
GÄRDESGÅRD Magazine file - natural
The most personal thing on a shelf may cost less than the decorative objects beside it. Add a favorite 5 by 7 inch photo, a small print or one of the botanical art cards. This black frame can stand horizontally or vertically and has a plastic front. ...
FISKBO Frame - black 5x7 "
An alternative when there is no floor space for another bookcase: this 21¾-inch picture ledge displays small framed art beside your reading area. The groove helps position frames. IKEA lists an 11.02-pound maximum load and recommends pictures no tall...
MOSSLANDA Picture ledge - white 21 ¾ "
Eight wild-herb art cards offer an inexpensive way to add botanical detail to a bookcase. Each is 5 by 7 inches, matching the FISKBO frame on this list. Frame one or two and keep the rest for another room or a gift. Frames are separate; the cards are...
VÄXBO Art card - wild herbs 5x7 "