• Color co-ordinate your books to create a visual impact.
• Instead of piling up one big bookshelf, you can create a themed collection of books. Teamed with appropriately -theme bookends and place each collection in a different room of the house.
• Mix up your display by stacking some books vertically and others horizontally. Use the horizontal stack as a platform for an ornament, thus adding height and making it a focal point.
• Introduce an ornament or picture frame places off-center to add interest, but leave the odd empty section open to create some breathing space.
• Don’t let a beautiful cover go to waste – face the occasional cover outwards will create mini artworks in between your collection of stacked books.
• Takes a step back every so often to asses the overall feel and balance of your display, making adjustments until you’re happy with final product.

Art Nouvelle

Gather books that are all of fairly uniform size together, then do the unconventional and hang a favored piece of artwork on the front of the shelf to create an element of surprise.

You can also mix your books with tiny pieces that can make a big impact on your shelves such as miniature paintings, vintage perfume bottles, ceramics and pottery, family portraits, vases, and storage boxes to name a few.

Using an unused doorway can also make a perfect bookshelf in case you ran out of shelves to put your books in.

Another way to create a stylish bookshelf design is to jumble all the books in a bookshelf. It’s also an easy way and an excuse to organize your books stacked up recklessly on your shelf.