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If you’re looking to compete with some of the best bookshelves on your Instagram feed, you’re in luck. We consider ourselves experts when it comes to an aesthetically pleasing shelf—after all, pictures of bookshelves on the Clever Instagram account always get more likes, from bright and cheerful to serious and scholarly. Perhaps you were tuning in during the internet's fascination with color-coded bookshelves, or maybe you’ve run the (sometimes astronomical) cost of custom open shelves or have attempted DIY bookshelf projects for years. Whatever the case, there’s something that can’t be denied: Seeing all of your favorite books neatly arranged among carefully curated trinkets and treasured collectibles just makes you feel good. It reminds you that there’s some sort of order in the world.

The good news is that order doesn’t necessarily have to come with an outrageous price tag. We’ve been gathering inspo from Clever homeowners for years—Billys reimagined! Stylishly upgraded garage storage! Mid-century modern influences!—and have quite a few tricks up our sleeves when it comes to finding relatively cheap bookshelves that will spare your credit card, make your home look great, and (hopefully) give you a little satisfaction.

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Beautiful mirrored bookcase by the window in the office interior

There are books in any house, they are placed in the closet, on the shelves, in general, they take up a lot of space. Many have entire libraries, this is becoming very popular. I would like the shelves to be not just standard, but unusual, so that they fit perfectly into the interior. Here you need to be a designer and come up with some unusual bookshelf or rack for the room. Even a simple old shelf can be restored, some new elements added, decorated, then the library will be transformed, and a comfortable, comfortable corner will appear in the house.

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What is it and how it works

Interesting and non-standard shelves for books in a children's room

What is a bookshelf? This is a piece of furniture that does not have a facade, the back wall is either present or absent - it all depends on the designer's imagination. It contains books or other items. Shelves can be made of metal, glass, wood, chipboard, MDF, even from ordinary boxes. Fasten to the wall with different types of fasteners. If desired, you can mount the backlight there.

Illuminated bookshelf in the living room for comfortable and pleasant reading

If you decide to make an unusual bookshelf yourself, there is nothing difficult, and an original thing will appear in the house.

Making an unusual rope shelf for books with your own hands

Types and examples

Original wooden bookshelf

Bookshelves, even unusual ones, can be very diverse:

Beautiful floor cabinet with bookshelves

Unusual bookshelf for office or home

Modular bookshelves made of individual blocks for the living room

Interesting floor-mounted bookcase

Bookshelves can be of various shapes and sizes. They are built into the stairs, into the table, placed in the middle of the room, mounted in the sidewall of upholstered furniture - all the options cannot be listed.

Built-in wood bookcases for an unusual interior

Like a library

Home library interior with a seating area

E-books are trying to replace conventional ones. But a home library must be in every home. How to organize it correctly, how and where to place books? We decided to create a library at home, most importantly, to do it beautifully, unusually, but also to properly justify a place for it in the room.

A small cozy home library with a place to read

As for furniture, it can be full-wall bookshelves, shelving, cabinets, if the library is in a private house, then it can be placed along the stairs. Optionally, complete the design with shelves, modules, sections. The main thing to consider is that the depth of the shelves is 22 centimeters, then they can accommodate larger books than traditional ones, as well as large copies. Now shelves are made for any wall, they can fill the void in the house, for example, the wall above the desktop. The spinning rack fills the corner perfectly. Everything depends on fantasy.

Alcove charm

Built-in bookshelves for living room with fireplace

Be an architect. If you have a fireplace in your house and there are alcoves on both sides of it, then this place is suitable for built-in bookshelves. If there is no fireplace, but there is a hidden nook, then organize a niche in this place with built-in bookshelves. We decided to make repairs and close the existing ledges, disguise heating pipes or hanging wires, then in these places you can build a drywall niche.

Unusual antique interior with alcoves

Place bookshelves in the resulting alcoves, complement them with lighting. The presence of a niche will allow you to correctly position the existing library. If the workplace is located in an alcove, then the bookshelves built in there will help to properly organize this area. Everything you need will be within walking distance.

My light, mirror

Bookcase with built-in mirror in the interior of the living room

Placement of mirrors between bookshelves or shelves will visually expand the room, give a feeling of lightness. This will allow you to aesthetically decorate the walls, which will create a positive mood. The mirror is known to be an ideal decoration element. It will complement the room with light, give the interior charm.

Hidden closet door

Use of a secret closet door in modern interiors

Hidden doors remain quite popular these days. Especially often they can be found in modern homes. Place them anywhere. Behind them there may be a staircase leading to the second floor, a bedroom, a pantry, a bathroom (if placed in the hallway) can be located behind the closet. The construction will give irresistibility to the house, modify the room.

Secret door leading from the library to the armory

Office with a view of… books

Office for a respectable man with bookshelves for work and leisure

Many people in the house equip a room for an office or allocate a corner for a workplace. But it happens that there are no windows in the room, and the business area is located in the corner. In this case, you can place bookshelves. This will give the office a business style. But it will not be just an office, but a comfortable room where you can work and relax.

Advantages and disadvantages

Angled bookshelves for a small library

Bookshelves are undoubtedly beautiful, practical, but they also have both advantages and disadvantages.

Benefits: Weaknesses:
a beautiful decoration item; take up enough space;
have excellent heat and sound insulation; covers in different colors do not always give a neat look;
you can organize a good library, build an amazing collection. cleaning takes a long time.

How to choose the right one

Living room odd shaped bookcase

Before you head to the store, decide where you want to place your bookshelf. What role will it play - just a small shelf, it is placed above the desktop, or do you want a rack, it is used as a partition, maybe a large floor-to-ceiling shelf for the library. It is important that the furniture is in harmony with the overall interior. Consider financial options.

Unusual book shelves in the interior of the room

How to do it yourself

Convenient and practical DIY book shelves

Making a bookshelf is not difficult, as it might seem. First of all, you need to choose a place, and you need to take into account that books do not tolerate moisture and sunlight. Do not place them in front of windows and where there is high humidity. Design, design. Prepare the necessary materials and tools.

An example of a drawing for making a bookshelf with your own hands

Then you cut the material to the required dimensions, process it with a grinder or sandpaper. Then the finished parts must be treated with special means to protect wooden surfaces. When they are completely dry, proceed with the assembly. For the manufacture of shelves, in addition to wood, they use chipboard, MDF, laminate, parquet boards. Show your imagination, then you can make an original bookshelf.

Original handmade bookshelf

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Irresistibly accelerating time in the dynamic flow of the 21st century is persistently and sometimes chaotically trying to introduce elements of virtuality into almost all spheres of our life, trying, by all means, to change at least something in it.

Sixteen years ago, DEC created an outlandish gadget - the world's first e-reader. Many of us today use it, reading on long trips by transport, skimming through and choosing the right one from a certain array of books, trying to read the first and early fashionable sensational book.

On the other hand, the frantic pace of change is countered by enduring human traditions that have been taken for granted from generation to generation. Often the same owner of an e-book, having crossed the threshold of the house, leaves it idle in a briefcase or bag.

After all, a home is a hearth, and at home on its shelves there are non-randomly bought, favorite books in cardboard binding that heal the soul, because they can not only be read, but also re-read.

It is precisely this tradition that the words of the outstanding European educator who lived five hundred years ago, the “prince of the humanists” Erasmus of Rotterdam, who considered his home the place where his library is located, were said.

Indeed, there are fewer “random” books in our house. However, today we will not tell about them, but about what can be called a "book house" - the most diverse, emphatically creative, admired by their design bookshelves that turn the home library into a unique cozy corner.

Modern conceptual trends of bookshelves delight and inspire, “try them on” in your home library, because they can certainly not only give your favorite books a unique frame, but also visualize their special status in the house for others.

Let's start with a fun, moody, innovative, original and exciting design that is now very popular around the world and was first introduced by Colombian-American Alejandro Gomez Stubbs in 2011 at New York Design Week.

Equilibrium wardrobe

The Equilibrium (“Balance”) wardrobe, created by this designer, having dimensions of 199 x 63 x 38, is visually perceived by the audience as a paradoxical, incredible structure crumbling right before their eyes. However, of course, this does not happen.

The "trick" of the cabinet's stability lies in the precise calculation of the angles, which allow creating its own reliable balance for each individual block and its contents, and the entire set of blocks is distributed in space in such a way that it forms a single central axis of stability.

cbdisegno

The modern and presentable look achieved by Chinese designers in the design of the cbdisegno modular bookcase certainly pleased lovers of high-tech style and determined the high demand for it all over the world.

The cabinet consists of 5 methacrylic modules rigidly interconnected into a complete system by inclined metal rods, which easily fix the structure when rotated by 180 degrees.

For the manufacture of prefabricated modules with a width of 35 cm, a modern light-weight material methacrylic was chosen, which has high transparency, an order of magnitude higher than the same indicator of plexiglass, significant mechanical strength and rigidity, and the possibility of further machining.

The bottom support module has a shelf width of 58 cm.

Typographic Bookshelf

Make no mistake translating the name of the next shelf into Russian - Typographic Bookshelf. In this case, Typographic is translated as design, classification of books.

Indeed, the shelf is designed to perform just such a function, it is located on two levels and, as it were, consists of two parts. The one that is higher is signed with the words "Books read", the one that is lower - "Books that I will read."

Let's ask our forum members: "Guess what books should be in the middle of such a shelf?" Agree, it's hard not to guess.

Patatras Rolling Bookshelf

The venerable Belgian designer Michel Bihane resorted to geometric abstraction in the design of the bookshelf, creating a kind of "wheel of knowledge". With his design, he teases the viewer, as if asking him: “Well, who told you that bookshelves are not round?”.

This shelf is a multi-coloured polypropylene disc containing many built-in small shelves that hold 2-3 books each.

By design, a disk with books is dynamic - if you ask for a book from this round shelf, it is unlikely that they will bring it to you, rather they will push it towards you, and it will roll.

P-bookshelf

Yaroslav Rassadin, one of the most famous modern Russian industrial designers, whose various projects have been put into production by European manufacturers, has combined the stylization of an old pendulum clock and a bookcase in one project.

Made from birch. On the top shelf, next to the books, you can put some stylish nesting dolls - aliens by the same designer.

Book Tower

Book Tower Shelf or, as it is also called, Book Tower, you have probably already seen in the background in various European and American films. Indeed, this is a very popular creative development that helps to stylishly place books in a limited space.

If you consider yourself a true connoisseur of skyscraper architecture, then why not build your own small intellectual skyscraper from books at home.

Shelf - "Book tower" is very popular and durable, it is traditionally made of high quality metal, with a wear-resistant silver coating.

Baroque Bookshelves

Designer avant-garde stylization - metallic shelves framed by a figured frame with a characteristic outline are created especially for lovers and connoisseurs of the elegant and always in demand baroque style, a wonderful architectural style that reminds us of the "golden" XVIII century, which was marked in Europe by a dynamic era Enlightenment, which also affected Russia, which was ruled by the great Catherine II.

Alphabet Bookshelf

The original AAKKOSET Shelf, created by the famous Finnish design studio Kayiwa, will be appropriate in a child's room.

Made of polypropylene in red and having recesses following the contours of 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, according to the creators' idea, it can separate the working area of ​​the children's room from the recreation area.

It also makes sense to use it to separate the children's room, if there are children of different sexes in the family.

Conceal Wall Book Shelf

What kind of bookshelf would you think of a design company whose name in Latin translates as “shadow”? Of course, hidden. But seriously, the leading American company UMBRA has proposed an interesting, simple and functional design concept: if you need to place books somewhere, place them on the walls.

Of course, not everything is so simple, a rectangular aluminum bracket with rounded corners is pre-attached to the wall, and to it, respectively, a double plastic comb, between the plates of which the cover of the first book placed on the shelf is placed.

Next - several books are placed on top of it.

Tree Branch bookcase

The French are always French. From a rather complex development of the French designer Olivier Dollé - a bookshelf, which is a stylized tree branch, which consists of about 80 parts made of birch and oak, breathes poetry, aestheticism and sculpture.

There are two modifications of such a shelf - branches - 3.2 m and 4.2 m in length. However, instead of birch, at the discretion of the customer, any other tree can be used.

Wha Cabinet

Tembolat Gugkaev, a leading Russian industrial designer, a native of North Ossetia and now a resident of St. Petersburg, proposed an original design concept for a curved, chess horse-like bookcase with illuminated shelves.

According to the design of its creator, the wardrobe is turned by the main illuminating rectangular inclined panel towards the person's recreation area - towards the sofa or armchair. Each of the three comfortable and spacious bookshelves of the original designer bookcase contains individual colored lighting.

Cutshelves

The second work of the same remarkable designer, who believes that harmony and beauty will certainly someday still rule the world, is no less original than the first. It contains some element of fabulousness.

According to Gugkaev's plan, a bookcase half "recessed" into the wall with stylish lighting is made as if "the wall had opened up by itself" in front of it. Very original, beautiful, creative.

Stacked Cabinet

The two-in-one set arouses admiration – a harmonious and unexpected combination of a bright, original aesthetic bookcase with free asymmetrical smooth inclined outlines, made inclined according to the principle of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, with an impeccably symmetrical classic chest of drawers creates a unique combination.

The compositional center, accentuated by the designer, connects these two separate and completely different pieces of furniture according to the laws of asymmetry into a single whole.

Helios Wall Fireplace Shelf

Helios has also contributed to the evolution of bookshelves. She decided to please lovers of comfortable home reading with an innovative idea - a pleasant combination of a bookshelf and a warming fireplace. To implement the plan, the company's designers managed to ergonomically place the fireplace directly in the shelf itself.

Armored glass 8 mm thick protects books from open flames of the burner. The burner can be conventional or remote ignited. The price of such an exclusive is quite high.

Console Bookshelf

Latvian designer Stanislav Kats, working in the avant-garde-rethought baroque style, has created a unique symmetrical book console, combined with a rather comfortable soft but elastic bench made of polyurethane.

The console turned out to be very aesthetic, visually perceived both as furniture and as decoration of the room. She creates a certain mood and, as it were, invites a person to sit on her bench, and, holding out his hand to the shelf, get the book he likes.

Bookshelf Bandoneon

If you are a lover of Argentinean tango and a connoisseur of the cultural tradition of this country, then Bandoneon is for you.

Bandoneon in Argentina became a solo instrument, eclipsing both violin and piano. He determined the development of a whole musical direction.

The shelf we are considering looks like stretched bellows of a legendary musical instrument, born in Germany, but found its true home in Argentina. Reading books taken from this shelf, you will surely hear the bandoneon's tart baritone and its piercing soprano.

OF WARS & WITS & POWER Bookcase

Singaporean designer Daniel Love creates special furniture. Instead of legs, his bookcases, made of light, specially treated wood, are supported by exclusive figurines of gilded steel soldiers.

The cabinet doors are decorated with shaped cutouts that follow the outlines of rockets and bombs. Most likely, the designer's intention is a tribute to the favorite game of childhood.

However, such a bookcase in a home interior will look very unexpected.

Amplitude Bookshelf Modular System

Proposed by designer Biser Boyanov, the Amplitude modular bookcase does not provide for legs, it consists of three walls of the same type (one of which is internal) and four shelves of the same type.

Both shelves and walls are multicolored and made in a warm, life-affirming, optimistic range of colors: from yellow to red. Both those and others have an original shape, which can be called a "wavy rectangle".

This furniture exudes joy, positive, it invigorates, cheers up.

Pulseline Bookshelf

Swedish designer Måns Salomonsen's bookshelf is very specific and represents a fragment of a human cardiogram made of aluminum. Just one beat of the heart. Just one impulse.

Covered in dark fluorescent paint, tinted with a delicate green edging, the shelf looks very stylish and presentable. In addition, it glows in ultraviolet light. What was the Swedish designer thinking when creating her layout? It is possible that his shelf will be bought by sympathetic, generous people, about whom they say that they have a “big heart”.

Or maybe he wanted to convey to us the idea that in difficult life circumstances one should rely more on one's heart than on one's mind.

Arrow Bookshelf

Arrow shelf design is quite unexpected, it is positioned by its creators as a bookshelf for couples to enjoy. This idea is also evidenced by the shape of the shelf itself - an arrow that plunged into the ground after its flight right in the lovers' room.

Arrow Bookshelf, as an arrow should be, is not vertical, it is inclined. Books are arranged along its length. In the “feathering” of the arrow there is one small horizontal shelf where the figurine can be placed.

Yule Bookshelf

A new model of a bookcase by a young Italian lady, designer Claudia Bignoli, is called “Yule” (Christmas time) and looks like a huge letter Y from floor to ceiling. Such a bookcase looks very presentable in a room with a studio interior. minimum of surrounding furniture.

Obviously, the purpose of the proposed non-standard design is an attempt to evoke in the owner of such a cabinet a series of memories associated with bright holidays after the Christmas holiday.

Letters Bookcase

A bookcase designed by Pieter de Leves looks like a heap of rather large three-dimensional letters of the Latin alphabet randomly crumbling, like leaves in autumn, between the outlines of which “accidentally” now and then there is free space, sufficient for to place in it one book, then several.

This rack will look very organic in a teenager's room.

Dripta Roy's Dream Bookshelf

How to give a calm, everyday elegance to your home interior, an element of dreaminess and frivolity?

The answer to this question was found by London-based designer Dripta Roy. The Dream Bookshelf he created consists of several modules of various sizes, deep enough to accommodate books, with the characteristic shape of the contours of clouds, repeating the generally accepted image of the human dream by all artists.

The modules are wall mounted so you can place your favorite romance and adventure books in them.

Industrial Pipe Shelf

Lovers of industrial style in the interior will be pleased with a rather comfortable bookshelf with a stylized old-fashioned fragment of a forged water pipe.

How often do we, working or relaxing in a comfortable environment, without much thought, use the most modern gadgets, without trying to go forward, invent and create something new, forgetting about the long and difficult path of industrial and technical progress, that everything complicated once began with a simple one ...

Handmade Stacked Teacups

Even the rather long title of another bookshelf “Handmade Stacked Teacups” sounds nice.

Four multi-colored shelf modules are attached to the wall, following the enlarged contours of the cups. Thus, we get a corner in the room, which, in addition to functionality, also creates an atmosphere of home comfort.

Check

Suggested by Korean designer Jongho Park, the idea for a bookshelf comes from an accounting job. We all at least sometimes had to check something with a list on paper, and after checking the next fad, and making sure that it was done correctly, we put a “tick”.

Therefore, the Russian name of the Korean designer's new shelf will be “tick”, and the English one will be “Check”.

The Check bookshelf has proved to be in demand in the business sector, especially for various presentations.

CTline Modular Shelving System

Italian designer of Bulgarian origin Victor Vasiliev, who now lives in Milan, was impressed by the video sequence of the majestic skyscrapers of New York and decided to create a special modular shelving for books of a shelving shape based on the landscape of this city.

The result was his development for the Italian furniture factory "Boffi" - CTline Modular Shelving System. The project was successful and was put into production.

Equation Bookshelf

Brazilian designer Marcos Breder once thought about the very process of ordering life, how to prioritize it correctly? After thinking, he had an association with a mathematical equation. Indeed, the queen of sciences, as mathematics is called, is famous for its rigid and correct logic for solving the most complex problems.

This is how the idea of ​​creating a bookshelf developed by Estudio Breder was born with a simple algorithm: first you need to read those books that are in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe shelf indicated by brackets, then in the area under the power of multiplication and division, and only then in the area of ​​the sum and differences.

Pinta Bookshelf

Modern design never ceases to amaze us with new discoveries of all sorts of combinations of modular bookshelves of different shapes. They are universal, abstract, easy to use. One of these modular bookcases is tentatively named "Pints". "Pint" is a measure of liquid, which in good old England is about 0.57 liters. A liquid, as you know, has one special property - to flow from one point to another.

When creating the book composition "Pints", the designer used the principle of fluid flow to place the modules one relative to the other.

It is noteworthy that with the help of the same modules it is possible to create a perfectly symmetrical composition.

Bookshelf-Annotation

Julie Hubinets didn't invent a bicycle in her author's design of the bookshelf, she took the appearance of the "annotation" graphic element presented in Microsoft Office and known to all of us as the basis for her creation.

This design, like the "tick" we discussed earlier, is used in the business world when organizing presentations of large companies.

Circular Walking Bookshelf

Renowned American designer David Garcia, based in Miami, created the Archive collection of a wide variety of bookshelves, while focusing on the quantitative indicator of their storage. some sort of bookshelf.

A conceptually new word in book storage is a round and quite maneuverable walking shelf created by an American, which allows a person inside it to move a large number of books at once and in the right direction without visible effort.

Cave Bookshelf

Cave Bookshelf. Isn't this what we all dreamed of as kids? After all, this wonderful design solution allows a person not only to read an interesting book for himself, but to read it separately, being in a modern, functional, individual, cozy, lit place at his own discretion.

Feedback from people who have used this design solution has consistently been positive, and reading becomes especially exciting in such an environment.

Pacman Bookshelf

Italian designer Mirko Ginepro pays homage to one of the first computer game characters, always gluttonous round and very dangerous for the protagonist Pacman, with his bookshelf design.

Visually, the image of Pacman looks quite presentable in the home interior, associating with the style of geometric abstractionism.

However, in order to comply with the "laws of the genre", it is placed so that it is more convenient to chew something, for example, an LCD TV.

Read-Unread Bookshelf

An interesting idea is behind the design of the bookshelf, which should notify the owner how many books he still has to read. A simple principle of comparison works. Books are divided into two categories "read" and "unread".

To visualize how many more books there are to be read, read and unread books suspended separately on a leather belt are arranged in space according to the principle of mechanical scales. In such an eloquent state, the books are on this shelf.

Zelli Bookshelves

Created by the Moroccan design studio Younes Design, the Zelli bookshelf is made in the national tradition and is a stylization of the shape of the world-famous traditional North African mosaic.

Initially, the rack consists of eight modules, which, when assembled, form a single rigid structure.

Vintage-Modern Bookshelf

Another interesting Baroque styling from Munkii (Singapore) by Yaren Goh.

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