How To Quickly And Easily Keep Shelves Decorated As The Seasons Change
I am sharing my best tips for quickly decorating open shelves and changing up seasonal decor.
The open shelves in my kitchen breakfast area are one of the main areas in my home that get changed on a regular basis. The only other place in my home that sees the same amount of action is my fireplace mantel.
If you count all of the different seasons and then add all the different holidays throughout the year, that adds up to quite a bit of effort! Even though I do my best to keep things simple, it still takes time to drag things out of my stash, play around and arrange everything and then put away what I don’t use. And just so you know, my shelves are downstairs, but all of my stash is upstairs. ugh
In spite of all the stair climbing, I don’t want to leave things looking the exact same year round, so I’ve come up with a way to easily and quickly keep my shelves “current”and organized. My trick was to create a base of neutral colored items that I could add to or slightly edit as needed.
First up are my rustic shelves decorated for winter. I was more than ready for some simplicity after their Christmas decor, so I created a “base” of black and white with a little gray and faux greenery thrown in.
I started with a base of my black and white striped dishes and stacks of my solid white everyday dinnerware. I added two tool boxes that can easily have the contents changed out as the seasons go by.
White pitchers fill the end of one shelf on the other side and down below, my mug tree is filled with monogram mugs and is sitting on a wooden cutting board. I added an egg holder filled with pinecones and a stoneware container with snips of fragrant evergreens tucked into it.
Bowls act as holders for chunky white candles surrounded with artificial evergreens and pinecones to create a visual splash.
Come back next Monday to see how I decorated these same shelves for Valentine’s Day by making just a few simple changes.
I’m not sure, but I honestly think I can keep this up until it’s time to start decorating for fall again. I’ll keep you posted!
Love this! Thanks for sharing! I’m going to borrow a few of your ideas for my open shelving, as well! Love the egg holder with the pine cones. 🙂
Just love all your decorating, especially the small wreath on the lamp!
Shelves look great!
Very helpful, Suzy! Thanks so much 🙂
Gosh, I would sooo love to see your “stash”! I bet it’s amazing!!! You have great taste!
Love your shelves, can’t wait to see them for Valentines Day! ?
I have had my shelves in my kitchen decorated the same way for awhile. Thanks for the tips I’ll use today.
I love how you have decorated your open shelving! It looks clean and simplistic, but I know it took time and effort to create such balanced layers. Fabulous!
I really like the way that you decorated your shelves. Thank you for sharing the pictures.
Great tips! Thanks for sharing at DIDI.
Great ideas! i do something similar with silk and dried flowers. I have a base of neutral flowers in a few vases and add seasonal or colorful flowers to highlight the season. I also made a DIY burlap wreath and I add seasonal clip-on flowers. Stopped by from Family Joy link-up.
I like the idea of keeping the shelves neutral and adding in pops of color that coincide with the season. For Valentine’s day. I can see adding touches of deep reds and pinks. Great idea.
Great tips! Keeping things neutral is my mantra. Pinned
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Love your style; I took down Christmas mantel items & immediately went to shells! They look great & mixed with some bunnies! Mix & match & do what I want.
This is really beautiful! I love your style. Thanks for all the decorating tips:)
I love how you share info that is quick and easy and affordable!! Thank you so much!
I love the idea of the base that you add to. I always try to re-invent the wheel and get frustrated.
At some point could you share how you organize your supplies-or share that post again if you have already shown that?
Hi Margaret. I’ve thought about doing a post like that, but it wouldn’t be pretty. 😀 My stash of stuff is kind of spread out all over my house. All of my dishes are stored in a closet that’s off of the kitchen, I have a walk-in closet where most of my smaller decorative items are stored and then the larger items are stored in our walk-in attic area.
I love the neural, basic background and bones for the shelving that can be quickly updated for a new season with a few colorful additions! Great idea and you have some very interesting pieces – thanks for thshare!
So beautiful, just love your style and all the inspiration you provide. Thanks!!
I love the shelves, do you have a diy post on how you made them?
Hi Becky. The information you’re looking for is in this blog post: https://www.worthingcourtblog.com/projects-from-my-breakfast-area/