{"id":119,"date":"2026-10-15T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/styling-open-shelves\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:38:32","slug":"styling-open-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/styling-open-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Style Open Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The secret to good shelves is not what you put on them. It is what you leave off.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Start with the big things<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Place the largest objects first: a stack of books lying flat, a tall vase, a framed print leaning at the back. Then fill in with smaller pieces in groups of three.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leave a third empty<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Empty space is part of the composition. It lets each object be seen, and gives the shelf room to change with the seasons.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Group in threes, vary the heights, and stop before you think you should.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books, ceramics and a little empty space: a simple formula for shelves that look collected, not cluttered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-styling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/formafern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}