Category: Live Beautifully

03Sep

How To Style Your Bookcases: 10 Tips To Style Your Bookshelves

how to style your bookcases, Julie Paulino Design

Live Beautifully:  10 Tips On How To Style Your Bookcases.

There is nothing better than the feel of a real book.  There is no kindle or electronic device that can be compared to a bookshelf full of books or to the sensory experience of holding a book in our hands.  One of my favorite rooms in a home is the library because it’s cozy as well as stylish.  Styling your bookcases can be tricky but has never been easier.  Whether you want to use your bookshelves for storage or for displaying books, these ten tips will help you get there.

how to style your bookcases, Julie Paulino Design

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15Aug

Live Beautiful: 18 Beautiful Makeup Organizing Ideas

makeup and brushes organization, wallpapered niche

I can confess that even when I don’t use much makeup, I’ve been doing the same thing with my makeup application for years, I love to see them displayed on my vanity.  Makeup organization can be tricky, mostly because we want them to be functional but we also want them to look beautiful, after all, we are all girls.  In this post below, you’ll find many pretty and inspiring ideas for organizing your skincare and makeup.

Make It Look Pretty In Wallpapered Niche

makeup and brushes organization, wallpapered niche

I love what I did with this niche space in our home in New Jersey.  I wallpapered the niche, added glass shelves for displaying some of my perfumes, makeup brushes, and a few other toiletry items.  This is a more straightforward solution than what it seems, I wrote about it here, and you can see more here.

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29Jul

Live Beautiful: Soften Up Your Space With A Skirted Table

Pink tablecloth on a round table skirt in Janet de Botton's home

Live beautiful is this blog’s most recent post category in which I’ll be posting about how to live beautifully in a more precise way and with details.  Today, we start with how to soften up any space with a skirted table.  Regardless of the shape of the table, round, square, or rectangular covering it with a tablecloth can dramatically transform any space.  From your makeup vanity to the inexpensive table that can serve you as a T.V. stand, they can all be enhanced with a table skirt.

In the case of a T.V. table, for example, the skirt can also hide storage underneath-all that unpleasant but, necessary electric cord, cable boxes, and remotes, can be hidden behind a very tailored, ideally custom-made table skirt.  The design detail can go with any home decor, from traditional to modern.  As a matter of fact, many modern Interior Designers are fans of a skirted table.

Pink tablecloth on a round table in Janet de Botton's homeBring layers of fabric into a room, if you love layers as much as I do.  Above, Janet de Botton’s home in France.  The effect of the two cascading pink tablecloths on the table is noticeable- it softens up the floor, and it adds a level of elegance to the room.

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