Easy styling: put a bowl on a stack of books.

Easy styling hack for your coffee table, bookshelves, and almost any other surface: put a bowl, vase, or other trinket along those lines on top of a stack of 2-3 books.

All the better if you have some hard-back books or coffee table books for stacking, but this tip can work even with paperbacks like novels. You’ll just need to size down the bowl or dish you set on top of the stack of books.

In the image above the bowl is next to the books, which also works. But the idea is that by mixing and stacking books, which are of course flat and rectangular, with objects that are 3-dimensional and round (or another shape), you create more visual interest.