5 Styling Tutorials To Elevate Your Interiors

There is an art and science to styling. If you’re looking for some fresh ideas and inspiration, take a look at my most popular styling videos, with tips and tricks to apply to your spaces.

1. How to Style Kitchen Shelves​

• Display your most beautiful objects. Save all the practical products and objects for behind cupboard doors.

• Create groupings of similar objects to create more visual 'weight' — this is important for the smaller-type objects you often find in kitchens.

• Include a mix of materials, textures, and forms to create visual variety. It encourages the eye to linger longer.
  
  Also, I get asked so often about ​this shelving unit​ — it's one that I designed and had made locally in Byron Bay. It's available in my shop ​Imprint House​.

2. How to Style a Hallway​

• Introduce a rug to define the space.

• Add furniture as a visual anchor. If you've got a narrow space, use a bench.

• Introduce height — a mirror, artwork, ​peg rail​ (with ​beautiful baskets​, including ​family-sized​).

3. How to Style a Sideboard​

• Start with a focal point or 'hero' piece.

• Introduce books in stacks (take off the book jackets if you want a more cohesive look).

• Add art to introduce to introduce height.
  
  Broom from Imprint House

4. How to Style Books

• Have a sense of weight on the bottom shelves, such as bigger books or darker spines.

• Mix horizontal and vertical spines for visual interest throughout your shelves.

• Intersperse favourite ceramics and decorative objects, and opt for more organic forms to offset the linear nature of the books (and shelves).

• If you don’t like the colour/cover of the book, take off the jacket — often what’s beneath is a beautiful neutral.

• Controversial with some, but turn the spines so you see the page ends if you want a more subtle palette.
  
  Kōyō Shelves from Imprint House.

5. How to Display Art

• Start with a larger piece that will anchor the space.

• Taper down or create a spiral-like effect around the artwork.

• Have a consistent element, such as the tones of the works, the material or colour of the frames.