Color, Height, and Texture!

So what do you do after being sick for over a week? You go shopping of course!

I have a large "plant shelf" (I guess that is what it is called. It should be named, "huge dust trap that needs an enormous ladder to get to shelf." ) in the living room that needed something up there. I had several items from our previous house and needed to find a few more special items to really make it pop. So off to two of my favorite decorating stores! Tai Pan Trading and Rod Works.

A few of the goods. (Except for the first photo. That came from the store called Mom's)

Let's put it all together.....

First the mantle. I wanted something to contrast the white of the mantle and the softness or brightness of the gold walls. I choose a large black/brown mirror from our last house and objects that balanced all of the colors. My original plan was to decorate in gold, black and white. It's funny that things never go quite as planned, and honestly I love how things turned out. The colors for my living room are gold, black, brown, white and green. This space also needed to be kept simple to balance out the busy display on the plant shelf.

Simple but elegant.

For the plant shelf. I need a variety of color (sticking with my chosen colors), height and texture. This is what I came up with....

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