Whether you’re a first-time homeowner in Reno, or you’ve had years of design experience, knowing how to utilize accessories is essential to bringing your vision to life. With bukit, it’s easier than ever before to browse and shop your favorite local Reno shops.

That said, it can often feel overwhelming when you’re trying to decorate a space but aren’t quite sure what direction to take it in. Accessories are the butter to the bread of any room, and knowing how to use and place them strategically will bring your home, office, or professional space to the next level.

We’ve compiled our top 9 design tips when it comes to accessorizing your space so that you can bring even your wildest design visions to life.

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What Is An Accessory?

The beauty of accessorizing lies in its broadness and flexibility. Truly, anything can be an accessory if you decide it to be so. That being said, if you’ve hit a bout of designer’s block, you might be having a tougher time pulling inspiration.

Some of our favorite accessories are prints & frames, bins & decorative buckets, candles, pillows & throws, photo frames, mirrors, clocks, and vases.

Check out some of these awesome accessories you can find on bukit:

• The Voluspa Petite Jar Candle from Wink Bath Bar
• The CozyChic® Barefoot in the Wild® Throw
• This adorable pillow from Wink Bath Bar
• The minimalist chic Medium White Mirror from Micano Home and Garden

When designing a space, it’s important not to limit yourself to the confines of what you think an accessory is. If you like the way something looks or fills in a space, then it’s an accessory. Think outside the box and let your imagination run wild.

When you broaden the scope of what you consider an accessory, you open yourself up to an entirely new collection of unique ideas and design concepts.

Seek Inspiration

There’s no better way to come up with new ideas than to let yourself be inspired by your friends, colleagues, and Instagram accounts. Social media platforms such as Pinterest, as well as the bukit site, can allow you to shop for ideas before shopping for products.

Ask yourself what color palettes speak to you, which trends are you in love with, and which could you live without? What kind of mood are you looking to create in your space? When you’re out with friends, or at a beautifully decorated restaurant, take note of the accessories you see and seek ways to emulate similar aesthetics in your home.

It’s important to remind yourself that you are just one person, and as such, won’t necessarily have all the ideas. Pulling from a wealth of sources will allow you to create a look and a vibe that is all your own, and that you will fall in love with.

Quality Before Quantity

It’s an age-old idiom, but in the world of interior design, it couldn’t be more true. When you’re in the beginning stages of accessorizing a space or group of spaces, it can be really easy to want to decorate right away. That being said, we recommend investing in quality decor that is going to stand the test of time.

High-quality pieces can be used and re-used to decorate an array of rooms over many years. While it can be exciting to grab a collection of “cheaper” pieces, you’ll likely see those accessories age and weather more quickly.

Proportions

Proportions of your accessories are essential in maintaining a cohesive feel in your spaces. You’ve likely seen a small mirror on a rather large wall, or a large armoire adorned with a few small trinkets. Perhaps you weren’t entirely sure what felt “off,” but we’d be willing to bet these weren’t your favorite design choices.

When accessorizing a room, it is important to understand what you are accessorizing, and with what goal. Large wall space above a mantle, for example, would likely require very different accessories than a small shelf.

Playing strategically to a room’s proportions allows you to get the most out of your space. It’s like dressing for your body type.

Textures

While colors and patterns are great, and often utilized by designers, we are seeing now more than ever before the combination of an array of textures in different spaces to bring them to life. Canvases adorned with plaster, vases made of clay, macrame decorative pieces, and chunky knit throws. Incorporating textures into your home is a quick and sure-fire way to spruce up your rooms and create warmth and depth.

Bold statement rugs made of different materials, placemats made of whicker or wool, and textured decorative tiles are all ways to create movement and complexity in your home.

Don’t Rush

As contradictory as it can feel, it’s important not to rush into accessorizing a room. Sit with it for a few days, a few weeks, or even a few months. We know you’re probably itching to decorate the walls and fill up each nook and cranny with beautiful decor.

That being said, spending a good amount of time in space allows you to see it from different angles, in different lighting, and in different moods. Our tastes change as often as we do, and therefore, sitting with a particular room for a little while ensures that you are making design choices that you are confident in and feel good making.

Though it can be tempting to press the checkout button when browsing bukit, consider browsing a little while longer to soak in ideas and inspiration. As trivial as it may seem, not all vases are created equal, not all prints are created equal, and as such, it is worthwhile to take the time you need to ensure you are investing in the right pieces.

Design Clusters

When you’re ready to fill your shelves and adorn your walls, try working with design clusters. What we mean by that is setting up tableaus of three or more pieces to make up a larger whole.

A photo frame paired with a candle and a book perhaps. A vase and decorative sculpture set atop a stool.

In creating design clusters, you give the eye more to look at, you create dynamics within your design.

Incorporate Nature

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw a major trend gain popularity, and we’re willing to bet it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Citizens across the globe were faced with isolation like they’d never seen, and turned to new hobbies to pass the time. Thus, the birth of the #plantmom phenomenon.

Plants are one of the easiest ways to bring a space to life. After all, they are living organisms and as such, create energy in design that is unmatched. From succulents to draped vinery, incorporating greenery into your accessorizing catalog can be the final touch to tie an entire room – or group of rooms – together.

Visit Urban Scout on bukit to see the wide array of indoor plants they’ve got available for you at the touch of a button.

Here are just a few of our favorites:

• Alocasia African Mask
• Bird of Paradise Plant
• Aglaonema Lady Valentine
• And, after spending all that money accessorizing your home, you’ll probably need a Money Tree to help bring the bucks back in.

Not keen on the whole live plant thing? Not to worry. In today’s day and age, artificial greenery is designed to look real and beautiful. Combine the convenience of artificial plants with the beauty that nature can bring into a space, and you’ve got yourself a winning combination.

Throw Away The Perfectionism

We know. You love what you do and you just want everything in your vision to come to life exactly how you imagined it. Interestingly enough though, when you abandon perfectionism, you tend to come across some of life’s most beautiful things.

When your vision is too stiff, you close yourself off to the infinite world of interior design. Embrace imperfections, open yourself up to new and everchanging ideas and always be willing to consider something you might not have thought of before.

So much of design is unpredictable, and that’s really the beauty of it. Remember to go with the flow and to allow yourself to bend as you go through the process.

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Whether you’re chomping at the bit to accessorize your home, or you’re finding yourself overwhelmed by the whole idea, there are a number of sure-fire ways to make the process easier.

Pulling inspiration from a collection of sources, while also having a solid understanding of your vision will help you prepare for the process.

Livening up your home with textures and greenery creates movement and warmth that may otherwise have been lost.

Playing to a space’s proportions and layering elements of design create cohesion and a dynamic feel as opposed to one that feels stiff and robotic.

As fun and exciting as the process of accessorizing a room can be, valuing quality over quantity and not rushing into buying cheap or lackluster products will set you up for success in your future as a professional – or amateur – designer.

The most important thing to remember is that accessorizing a space is supposed to be fun. Reno’s local shops and boutiques have so much to offer, and now you can browse them from the comfort of your home. As difficult as it can sometimes be, remember that interior design is all about flexibility and thinking on the fly. When you abandon the need for perfectionism, the possibilities are endless.

bukit brings the best of Reno straight to your front door. Get started on your design journey today.