One of my clients recently moved into a new home with tons of bookcases. She and her husband had a very limited number of books, and little more than picture frames to style the bookcases.
before
She wanted to get the living room pulled together before an upcoming baby shower at her home. I knew she needed two things: books and accessories to style her bookcases. For the books, I scoured a couple of local estate sales. I kept my eye out for the right colors, sans book covers, that is.
The best place to get accessories for bookcase styling on a budget is HomeGoods, of course. My mission was to find objects that looked expensive, but didn’t kick the pocketbook too hard. With HomeGoods, that’s no problem.
I shopped HomeGoods for items that were the colors, metallics, and shapes I wanted to create the right look for my client’s living room bookcases.
The combination of my client’s personal items, estate sale books, and HomeGoods accessories is what pulled this living room together – just in time for my client’s party.
HomeGoods pillow, orange candle pillars, white ceramics
sofa and solid orange pillow from Merridian, patterned orange pillow from HomeGoods
metallic votive holders from HomeGoods
vases and tray from HomeGoods
white ceramics from HomeGoods
Now that’s a room that’s HAPPY. HomeGoods Happy, that is! Can’t wait to show you more of this room and the adjacent dining room, along with one of my favorite new paint colors – which you see in the back of the bookcases. Which is your favorite item I found from HomeGoods?
Love it! I recognize some of those HG accessories from our inventory. :). Great job and great store.
Beautiful! I love that big picture, and the orange pillows.
isnt the photo with the tray from a different project?
no, it’s in the adjoining dining room – bookcases in there, too! i’ll show more of both of those two rooms in an upcoming post.
Looks great Kristie! You can also find great accessories at Home Goods. I bought that same little red bird for me! Really cute.
I can’t even imagine not having enough books to fill up bookcases–in fact, I’m trying to figure out where to put all my books–could you do a post on that?
You did a great job – just love it and the colors are beautiful. Although I have a lot of electronic books now, I also have tons of really great hardback books and have always loved having a library or lots of bookcases filled with books in my home. My current cottage has no built in bookcases – so I am very envious of your client’s living room!!!
I would love to know what paint you used on the back of the bookcases! Also, he source of the rug!
Christina, the rug is from Merridian Home Furnishings here in Nashville. I believe it’s a Surya rug. I’ll let you know the paint color when I reveal both rooms made over!
Beautiful. Love the color and object placement repetition that keeps the eye movin. You are gifted. Thanks for sharing with us!
Gorgeous!!! LOVE your style!
Beautiful as always! Our closest Home Goods is 90 minutes away but I LOVE IT. We recently had floor to ceiling built-in book shelves added to both sides of the Sitting Area of our Master Bedroom. I wasn’t able to squeeze in a trip to Home Goods, but I foung a lot of things similar to what you pictured above at Michael’s. I was able to hit 60% off on a few aisles at Michael’s and scored some great on-trend decorative items to mix in with the books on our new shelves. I love your style, Kristie!
Gorgeous! I checked Merridian’s website and the rug isn’t available…there were only two rugs online. Is it possible that they is a larger selection in store? I am really interested in this rug. 🙂
They don’t have much on the website – you definitely have to check with one of the two stores to see what they have. But you can also order that rug through them. If you want to contact one of their stores about it, just send them the link to this post and they’ll find it for you. They know me over there 😉
I LOVE this room and what you’ve done with the bookshelves. I especially like the orange printed pillows, because I have the same ones!
This is beautiful and I notice in several of your projects that you paint the back of the bookcase a different color. I’m a realtor staging a home for a client and want to create this look. My client’s bookcases have holes that run down the back. Should these be filled in before the paint or should I just leave them? Any suggestions on painting the back? Thanks so much 🙂
Sheli, don’t bother filling in the holes. My best advice for painting the back of bookcases is: go darker than you think you should. It will read lighter than you imagine, and darker backs look fresh and very on-trend. Dark charcoal or grayed blues are my favorite!