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All of our pro tips for adding books, greenery, texture, artwork, wood and natural fibers to your bookshelves.

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Interior Designer, Liz Maire, shares how Color and Space work together using her built-ins as an example. Check out how these Built-In bookshelves look!

Styled olive green built-in shelves are mounted over olive green cabinets donning leather tab pulls and frame a framed vintage map lit by brass swing arm sconces.

When planning your dream home, what comes to mind when designing built ins? Is it only the kitchen cabinets or closet shelving you consider? Or do you imagine the shelves that flanked the fireplace in your childhood home, full of framed memories? Perhaps traditional bookcases in the home office, stocked with encyclopedias and classic novels?

A cozy cottage nicknamed prairie chic.

Living room features a blue velvet sectional with blue suzani bolster pillows under brass sconces, a round pink tufted ottoman atop a gray rug, and gray built in bookcases lit by brass picture lights.