How to intentionally decorate your shelves (with items that hold meaning for you)

Catherine Rose Design
10 min readMar 7, 2022

Ok cool, you’ve seen a lot of “awesome shelfies!

But do you know how to decorate your shelves with intention?…

And how do you recreate the feeling of being put together on your own shelves, and even more important than that how can you use what you already have and love in a purposeful and beautiful way?..

(saving you from wasting money & risking looking dated in the future)

Going out and buying a lot of trendy crap to arbitrarily fill up a bookcase does not an intentional and meaningful home make!

In this article, I’m going to show you WHY a good shelf looks put together and how to analyze what you have and love and how to put that together so that your home looks like YOURS and not a page out of a catalog!

I get it, staring at an empty bookcase…

Is an extremely daunting position to be in. It feels like that dreaded cursor blinking when your essay was due the next day! It’s really easy to let the fear overwhelm you and often people in this state in their own home will just look at a cute…

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Catherine Rose Design

Helping sensitive people create home environments that deeply support them.