Christmas Decor Shelfie Styling Ideas

I’m pretty excited that we’re 11 days from Christmas and in my usual style I’m still tinkering with Christmas decor, but I’ve wrapped up some shelfie styling that I wanted to share with you! I usually add some Christmas pieces to my everyday decor, but this year I decided to go all-Christmas on my shelves and I’m loving it.

I have a love/hate relationship with shelfie styling. I love it when it’s done, but hate the process because it always takes me awhile to get it just right. I set out with the intent to give you a how-to, but realized that my process is pretty all over the place so I’m just going to share a few tips instead!

Basic selfie styling tips in 4 easy steps:

First, remove everything from the shelves to start with a clean slate.
Then, shop your house (or a store, if you’re lucky) and put your decor in piles by category…signs, baskets, books, greenery, small and round stuff, etc. Set aside your faves.
Next, start with your larger items first (preferably from your faves pile) – those are your “centerpieces”, and then fill in from there. Remember, less is more.
Finally, balance out the decor with big/small, square/round, and different textures.

Here’s how I put mine together!

My centerpiece was my new “Schaefer Tree Farm” sign that my friend just made for us. Love it!

To balance it out, I added the basket with pillows at the bottom.

And since those were both rectangles, I included the three trees on the second shelf to add some shape and texture variation, and I especially like that they went with the “tree farm” theme.

Then I filled in the rest with a couple other things.

Then for the other side…

The JOY letters were my centerpiece for this side, and I put them on the top shelf so I could put the square sign (from Heather at Whipperberry) and boxwoods on the middle shelf to complement and balance the trees on the opposite side. AND I had two rectangular pieces on the top/bottom shelf on the opposite side, so it balances it out having a square sign on the middle shelf. It’s all about the balancing when it comes to shelfie styling!

The tray on the bottom cabinet is just a place holder until I get my new Willow nativity set – so excited about it! I also wanted the nativity to be a centerpiece, and that goes well with “Joy”.