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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Millie Hurst

5 tips for making living room shelves look more expensive on a budget

Three images of living room shelving.

Putting up shelves is the moment when a living room project really comes together, especially if they take up a large amount of wall space. Whether you have shelving flanking a window or chimney breast, simply covering the majority of one wall, or perhaps dividing up an open-plan space, it always makes a living room feel more 'finished' and homely.

Living room shelving is a key feature as it provides somewhere to display a client's prized possessions and tell their story. As well as bringing a ton of character, visual intrigue, and conversation starters, shelving gives practical storage space for books, artwork, storage baskets and boxes, and decorative objects picked up on our travels. It can also soften the acoustics in echoey spaces and visually warms things up.

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