Cute Ideas For Decorating Living Room Shelves

The role and importance living room shelves play in interior design and home décor cannot be downplayed. Have you ever taken one look at your living room and feel like it’s overstuffed with art pieces and accents you’ve collected over the years?

Guess what’s coming to the rescue: living room shelves! In this article, we’ll be discussing the benefits of having a living room storage shelves and how you can decorate them to ramp up the elegance of your living room.

Benefits of Living Room Shelves

If you’re yet to incorporate a living room storage shelve to your home décor, think again.  Below are some of their many impressive benefits.

They optimize your space

If your living room is relatively small in size, it’ll definitely look and feel cramped. The best option to optimize the space is to hang up a living room shelf. Whether it’s a floor-to-ceiling shelf or a floating shelf, as soon as it is installed, you can re-organize to optimize your space.

Provides hidden storage

A living room shelf is just the perfect item to provide storage for items in your living room you don’t plan on using for a short or long period of time. Your kid’s old video game collections or toys (if you’ve got kids), pictures, CDs and DVDs, board games, etc.

If you don’t fancy packing and unpacking items in your basement, make use of a living room storage shelf.

Helps you declutter

With a shelf positioned in your living room, you can reorganize the ‘overcrowded’ room and keep some items there. You can position the shelf in such a way that it is accessible to everyone.

Showcases your personality to guests

A living room shelf does the magic of revealing your personality and style to your guests. If you love reading books, the best way to reveal it without saying anything is to arrange your books on the shelf.

Your hobbies and personal interests can be put on display and blend it nicely with the décor and color theme of your living room.

How to Decorate Shelves

Now that we’ve brought you up to speed on the relevance of having a living room shelf, practice the following ideas to decorate them.

Paint your shelf

One way to decorate your shelf is to paint it to a preferred color. While there are shelves available in neutral colors, you can paint your shelf to a color that will add texture to the surrounding walls and décor.

Use your books as display pieces

If you’re a lover of books, you can use some of them as display pieces on your living room shelf. You can incorporate them in such a way that they’d punctuate the color theme of your living room.

You can pull this off by arranging book covers of the same color together to create a color palette.

Add nature

One cute idea for your living room shelf is to add a bit of nature to it. Add a couple of plants or flowers to pop the color and convert your living room to a sanctuary. On the plus side, fresh plants and flowers emit a soothing fragrance that you will love.

Display different items that vary in size together

Another lovely idea for your living room shelf décor is to mingle big and small items together to create balance and a conceptualized look.

Display what you love

Living room shelves serves one major purpose: to display items you want people to see. Go ahead and display items of importance on it. Your awards, accomplishments or pictures of your family can line up parts of the open shelf.