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Update: my sister said my shelf looked like a store display, so I tried her dumb basket trick
My sister looked at my living room shelf back in May and told me it looked like a Target aisle, which stung a little since I'd spent $60 on matching bookends and a color-coded arrangement. I finally gave in, pulled out 3 books, stuck my grandma's old tea tin and a candle in the gaps, and now the thing actually looks lived in instead of staged. So what's the weirdest thing on your shelf that has no business being there but somehow works?
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ray_campbell4629d ago
That "lived in instead of staged" line is exactly the thing nobody talks about. The real problem with a styled shelf is that every object has one job, and when everything is doing its job perfectly your eye never stops moving, it just scans. The random tea tin actually breaks the pattern and gives your eye a place to rest. I read somewhere that museums do this on purpose in old house tours, they leave a chair pulled out or a book face down on a table so the room feels like someone was just there.
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