How to Decorate Floating Shelves
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Ever wondered how to decorate floating shelves? In addition to storage benefits, these home decor items offer lots of ways to transform your walls from a blank page to a painted canvas. With the right placement and pieces, you can place floating shelves in any room of the house for extra decoration. Here’s how to do it.
1. Accentuate Your Headboard
A headboard is a statement piece of a bedroom due to its eye-catching size, color, and material. If you’re looking to accentuate your headboard more, placing a floating shelf directly above it will help you further showcase your style. Choose a finish or color that matches your color palette, and use the floating shelf to display home accents that fit your aesthetic. This will make your headboard even more of a statement piece in your bedroom.
Need to decorate your space and store some items? Do both at the same time with a floating shelf. Floating shelves are a great place to highlight the colors of your room by displaying decorative pillows, towels, pots, or other useful home items that can also function as decor.
Show off your art collection or personal photos on a floating shelf. Leaning your art on a floating shelf doesn’t put holes in your walls, unlike hanging pictures from nails. Choosing a floating shelf set keeps the color and finish of the shelves uniform for a cohesive look that doesn’t distract from the pieces you’re displaying, so all focus is drawn to your collection!
Floating shelf decor ideas are just as much about placement as they are about what they hold. If you have a lot of open wall space in your kitchen above or between your cabinets, filling the walls with floating shelves can close the gap and give you extra storage. Display your elegant dinnerware or cookware on your floating shelves to highlight the room’s atmosphere while also acting as another storage space.
One of the easiest floating shelf decor ideas is simply styling the shelves with your favorite home accents! Floating shelves offer a range of space and layout options to showcase your decor. A good rule of thumb to follow when decorating floating shelves is to incorporate different heights, textures, and colors into the display to keep things visually-balanced. Faux plants can give the set-up a pop of color, while decorative objects such as vases and figurines can provide the height and texture.
Bring floating shelves into the bathroom for dual decor and storage – very beneficial if you have limited space! Arranging bath necessities like towels, storage baskets, and home accents on bathroom floating shelves is a simple way to combine aesthetics and function in your space.
Want a bookshelf but don’t want a bulky piece of furniture absorbing space? Build your own bookshelf with floating shelves! Since floating shelves are skinny and don’t have extensive siding, you won’t have a dramatic furniture piece taking up a lot of physical and visual space in your room. Floating shelves make perfect bookshelves since they offer the right amount of length and depth to house your books standing up or laying down. Plus, you can use the extra space to accent your book area with a few knick knacks! Cubby shelves and tiered shelves are other great options to keep your books all in the same place if you’d rather have a shelving unit that’s all intact.
Keep your floating shelf decor balanced by tiering the shelves in your set. Tiering your shelves helps to visually transform your floating shelves into decor, not just storage! Plus, it gives your wall a balanced look. Instead of lining up the ends of your floating shelves, space them out in a loose triangular cluster like in the picture above.
Speaking of color pop, the color of your floating shelves can add spunk and decor to your room in a simple way. Choose a brightly colored shelf to boost your decor look. Colors like blue, red, yellow, or green are bold colors that can make a statement in your room.
Clear floating shelves make your space look clean and uncluttered. These shelves don’t skip on space or depth, and they make it seem like your objects are “floating” on the wall. If your decor style is clean and crisp, hanging clear shelves can boost your vibe.
The corners of your walls are often overlooked as potential decor spaces. With corner floating shelves, you can style your home accents in an unlikely space! If you have an accent chair and end table near the corner of a room, like in the picture above, corner shelves can transform this area to even more closely match your aesthetic.
Sometimes decorating your floating shelves isn’t about what’s on it, but what shape the shelf itself is. Accent shelves or other eclectic shapes like hexagon and diamond shelves are vastly different from the standard straight shelf. These shapes have extra bars and foldings that provide more style for your space.
Now that you know more about how to decorate with floating shelves, it’s time to make the most of your walls!
