The key to make a great looking sideboard arrangement, or any arrangement for that matter, I think, is balance. There are tons of other rules of arranging to be observed… and broken, but balance is really key.

Let’s run through the steps to make an arrangement on this sideboard and see just what balance does to make it look visually appealing:

Here is the built-in sideboard, original to our newly renovated 100 year old house. (In a future post, I’ll show you all the details about it’s transformation with the before and after pics, but for now, this is about the ‘how-to’ on arranging)

First thing I start with, Read the rest of this entry →