What are bookshelves?
Bookshelves are some of the essential pieces of furniture in every household. They organize your collection of books and serve the purpose of storing showcases and antique items that beautify your home interiors.
Adding a few extra compartments to the bookshelves becomes the perfect storage place to neatly store all your novels, essential documents, and other small items.
Stylish bookshelves adorn your living room and add to the aesthetic value. These can be placed in any room based on your requirements. Your home furniture is incomplete without bookshelves and bedroom wardrobes, where you can stock your collection of books, indoor plants, picture frames etc.
Bookcases give a chance to add creativity to your home decor as you accessorize them using different kinds of decorative items.
Factors you need to consider to decide the best bookshelves
Before choosing bookshelves for your home, you need to consider the following factors:
Style: The style refers to the storage space layout in your bookshelves. You can choose a bookcase with a few shelves to showcase decorative articles, or you may design a small library. You can choose from different bookshelves styles depending on the space availability and the book storage space required.
Size: The most important criteria for deciding the bookshelf type is its size. The size factor determines both the appearance and the storage space available on your bookshelf. The dimensions of height, width, and depth finalize the size of your furniture, like bookshelves and bedroom wardrobes.
Functionality: Based on the specific requirement, the usage of bookshelves varies for everyone. You can choose from the adjustable height shelves, wheeled bookcases or a room divider bookshelf.
The material used: Bookshelves are made using materials like metals, wood, particle boards or plywood. The type of material used decides your bookcase’s aesthetics, durability and functionality.
7 Unique bookshelf styles to enhance your home aesthetics
Typographic bookshelf (Reminder bookshelf)
This bookshelf style reminds you of what books you have already read and what books you need to read in the future. The trendy white finish of this shelf suits almost any room. This bookcase style is best suited for book lovers who read regularly.
Tabletop bookshelf
This unique bookshelf is best suited for students because the shelves’ compartments rest on the tabletop. Students have to store many books regularly; this style will save time searching for books from the wall-based shelves.
Floating bookshelf
This popular bookcase design looks impressive because the books hide the mounting platform. This style is cost-friendly and can be installed on the walls of any room. It seems the books are floating in the air beside the wall.
Curved bookshelf
These bookshelves have a curved shape and contain many compartments to arrange your books and home decor items. These shelves add a unique design to your drawing rooms.
Tree-shaped shelves
Using the tree-shaped shelves, you can add the essence of nature into your child’s room as this unique bookcase is in the shape of a tree, with branches emerging out to form storage compartments. These shelves can store about 100 books and are attached to the wall for stability.
Built-in type bookcases
Built-in bookcases are ideal if you wish to create a partition using floor-to-ceiling shelves. This style features a stylish design where the bookshelf will act as a partition wall between two halves of the room.
Ladder or leaning bookcases
Ladder-styled bookcases are designed to store books on the racks of the ladder, and the shelf leans against the walls. The stepped shelves that gradually decrease in size when going from bottom to top enhance the beauty of your book storage area.
Different types of bookshelves are available which go along with your other bedroom furniture, and finalizing the best among them for your home can be a challenging task. You can narrow down your choices by considering the different factors discussed in this article and taking into account your home furnishings and the specific requirement.
The price of your bookcase varies depending on size, type of material used, and the style you choose. Modern bookshelf designs complement your room furnishings and beautify your interiors.
If you are running out of storage space for books and plan to buy a bookshelf or bedroom wardrobes, you can choose them from the Bajaj Finserv EMI Store. With different styled bookshelves, the EMI Store gives you many options to choose from the top-rated models.
Using your Bajaj Finserv EMI Network Card, you can purchase the model you like on No Cost EMI. You can also benefit from discounts and other offers, including cashback vouchers and the zero down payment facility on select models on the EMI Store.