Hi @emmabondscott, what a beautiful set of shelves you have! You are also lucky to have some great items to work with in styling them. I agree with @holdengirl1971 and suggest that you fold the top of 1 basket in and put the soft furnishing inside it, this could then be placed on the left of the second shelf from the bottom, leaving the other basket on the right of the bottom shelf. If you group you lanterns and the object on the same shelf together just right of centre. Grouping in odd numbers is a good tip, as is placing items in a 'triangular pattern' (if you imagine viewing the items from above, they would form a triangle). When selecting items to place together, try to choose things that vary in height - tall , medium and small. The plant is also lovely and should definitely be kept. I hope you find this helpful, don't hesitate to get in touch if you would like any further advice. All the best, Jo Powell

Hi There, There are so many different options these days! It's totally dependent on what you plan on storing in there. My personal favorite is having 5-6 drawers with a mixture of shallow and deep. Drawers are a much more effective way of storing items as you are essentially pulling the back of the cabinet out to you. This way when you can stack as far back as a standard shelf but you're not pulling out everything in the front row to get to the back. Another benefit of this is storage for small appliances that can be a pain when below bench as they can be heavy and hard to manoeuvre our of corner cabinets for example but when in a drawer access is instantly improved! The capacity compared to shelves is pretty much an extra 50% Along with this are additional options to customize there is availability to customize the number of drawers, heights and material (I find glass if very handy!) Emma

Have a look at getting pullout metal baskets for the lower shelves, then go to shelves from shoulder height up. Shelves should be about 300mm spacing, if you have pullouts make the lower 2 at least 350mm spacing for taller & heavier items.

The problem is you've got freestanding furniture where a built-in solution would have been better. It's always going to look like free standing furniture. To improve the look the cabinet in front of the fireplace needs to go entirely. You can then build shelves onto the chimney brest to meet the front of the wardrobes but those shelves aren't going to be anything more than picture rails. Doesn't matter what wood you use because you'll paint it the same colour as the wardrobes. It's an awkward solution. It would have been more cost effective to have the wardrobes built in either side of the chimney brest, full height to meet the ceiling with mouldings that matched the rest of the room. You could have then decorated the chimney with a large mirror and it would have looked 100% better. As it is I would just have the two wardrobes there, get rid of the third and leave it at that.