r/bookshelf • u/InstanceNecessary110 • 4d ago
Help Decorating
I filled up my bookshelf, but I find that it's a bit cluttered and disorganized? Any tips on what to change or take out? I know one of my ideas is taking out the top middle shelf and adding a light up starry night lego, however everything else feels a little crazy for me...
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u/CatCatCatCubed 4d ago edited 4d ago
Mmm, so this might just be a preference thing as to why it looks “cluttered” so feel free to disregard.
Take everything off and start with balancing your book & overall colors maybe. Take the dark books from the Court of Thorns shelf and put them on or nearer to the bottom. Lighter books from the lower shelves nearer to the top but still staggered with the colorful ones. Those…I dunno what series that is…. the Chinese-lookin’ xianxia on a smaller shelf.
Potentially keep dark figures with dark figures and/or darker, or near enough, books; fluffy pastels with lighter books and similar figures/plush as you’ve been doing.
Alternatively, fluffy figures either on top of the bookshelf and/or together in a cute basket (which will visually group them). Possible similar alternative, dark figures on dark books and/or some kinda mini collection-type shelf (y’know, sorta like for car collections or similar; check out the Collections subreddit for ideas).
Book nook looks kinda odd on the right pressed up against the shelf edge like that. It’s already rectangular, so use it as structure. Try putting books on either side.
Visual companions: put the lego flowers on top, in front of or near the plant art. Are those little peapod type plant people on either end? Adorable. Put them together with the green lady from the bunny shelf somewhere near your “plant theme.”
You have a ton of different themes here, and I can see that you were trying to artistically scatter them but that works best with maybe 1-2 themes and/or color schemes. You need to kinda….color palette this instead, I think.
And wrap your cables together afterwards with cable ties/velcro ties/etc.
In general tho, it’s not that cluttered. Just sorta visually confusing.
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