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Pottery Barn Easy Updates with Nico de Swert Coffee Table Basics
A coffee table can easily become a greeting place for clutter. We place all kinds of things on it from
remote controls to telephones to objects and books.
I'm gonna show you three easy ways to make your coffee table look beautiful and organized.
The first way is really a practical way.
The first step
we're going to try to make some sense of what we already have on the table
and a good way to style your books is always to style them from large to small, so what we're gonna do
I pulled some colored books that are kind of in the color palette of the pillows on my sofa.
Just that makes it a little bit more beautiful and stylized.
You're going to put these all together from
large to small just like that
and then my style secret for this organized tip
is a tray. A tray's always a great way to keep things organized
and mess free.
So the rest of the stuff we're just gonna place inside of the tray,
you know always beautiful if you go from small to large,
and then we place the objects that we have left,
just in the tray,
kind of the neatly together,
remote controls can be dumped in the tray just like that,
and to anchor it all together I have this beautiful wooden bowl, that we're gonna place in here,
and to put some color from outside,
indoors, I have these beautiful leaves,
in the bowl, voila,
and it's all finished, beautiful
organized and simple
and a good thing about a tray is that when you have guests over
it's easy to remove,
and you have a free coffee table.
Another great way to decorate your coffee table is to showcase a collection.
Here I have some bottles that I've collected over the years
and I have some new ones that I just got from Pottery Barn,
and we're going to create a beautiful landscape on the table
just very easy, we're going to start
with having the bottles,
just you know play around with them in different sizes, now we're gonna add
some beautiful Dutch tulips
and again the color from the tulips I picked up from the
pillows on my sofa.
I'm just going to give them a quick cut and place them simply inside
the bottles just like that.
You know, incorporating flowers into your home it's always beautiful
to bring nature
gonna cut this a little shorter...like that.
So the last one we're gonna put
in here and that's it,
very simple easy affordable and beautiful.
Another great way to organize your coffee table is to create groupings,
and as you can see I've got all kinds of objects and books in same color palette because it's
easy on the eye
and again what we're going to do is create beautiful piles of the books from large to small
just like that, we're going to push that aside
put the books here
put the tray in the center
and we have this beautiful object we're gonna place on top
of this pile of books,
and then I have these beautiful glass vases from pottery barn with some rosemary,
I'm gonna put that in the tray in a grouping of four,
and again I'm using a tray to contain my four vases and it's easy
because of the rosemary, you can use it in the kitchen, it's easy to take it off the table take it
into your kitchen and later place it back on your table,
And then the last pile
we're going to do a beautiful stack again of the books
and then the objects that are left on my table
this beautiful little vase, and this beautiful
apple and that's it
beautiful, simple and organized.
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