Decorating a Bookshelf Is Easier With These 2 Home Stager-Recommended Tips

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Styling shelves can feel overwhelming. Once you think you’ve found the perfect display, you spot another knickknack that might make your arrangement look even better — and often, it’ll take another round of reorganizing to find balance again.

But before you get bogged down in seemingly endless shelf vignette possibilities, listen to what professional home stager Jason Saft of Staged to Sell says can make the process easier.

Create a Display That Makes You Happy

Ever since Saft was a kid, he would often fiddle with the layout of shelves and books, he says in the third episode of Styled to Sell above. Now that he’s a professional home stager, it’s no surprise that in between hectic moments or during a lull in decorating, he returns to this familiar practice.

His number-one rule, though? Create a display that makes you happy, Saft says.…