Across the room, add life to your bookcases and open shelving with gold-kissed accessories. Gilded picture frames, goldtone bookends, and small decorative objects can be used to add warmth and personality and, if you’re lucky to have a few vintage books in your collection, to echo the gold leafing on the spines. To maximize the sparkle, be sure to keep your gold objects gleaming with a regular swipe of a dusting cloth.
Tabletops and counters are natural display areas and should never be exempt from the golden rule (aka “put gold everywhere”). Tables and shelving units that allow a little more height, like the Frankwell bookcase above, can always use an interesting sculpture or art piece (in gold, of course) to add a bit of flair or create some drama. Just how much drama is up to you.
At just under 2-feet tall, the Pallaton sculpture shows the softer side of gold. Made from champagne-toned gold metal, it is a graceful study of twisted shapes set on a block of white marble and would look stunning in a contemporary living space or could be used to add a playful touch to traditional decor.
Trimmed by a thick band of antique goldtone metal, the clear glass base of the Artemis candle holder can be filled with whatever your heart desires—pebbles and shells collected from the beach, for example. Above, a matching gold tone insert holds a 3-inch pillar candle to give you hours of candlelight.