51 Display Shelves to Showcase Your Favorite Things

Stylish display shelves offer a fantastic way to highlight your favorite decorative items, collectibles, knick-knacks, and artwork – all the items that you hold dear and want to display with care. In this post, we’ve collected decorative shelves for every situation. This post includes standing curio cabinets with protective glass walls, hanging wall shelves that . . .

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50 Creative Ways To Incorporate Book Storage In & Around Stairs

Love books? Love stairs? These fifty unique designs make the most of that tight little cranny under your staircase. Use a block frame to hide books beneath, as they line sturdy shelves your feet walk over. Wrap a winding steel staircase around existing walls of bookshelves, immersing yourself in the reading experience. Put books within . . .

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20 Creative Bookshelves: Modern and Modular

With the increasing digitization of literature, the need for space-consuming bookcases has diminished. It is indeed, not difficult to conceive of a future wherein paperbacks and hardcovers are to be found only in libraries, which will be held in similar regard to museums. A somewhat melancholy thought perhaps, but a few select, beautifully bound classics . . .

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Open Kitchen Shelves Inspiration

Open sided storage adds a laid back look to a kitchen, as well as keeping cooking and serving essentials easily accessible, but what arrangements will keep your cooking space looking neat and stylish? We’re taking a look at open kitchen shelf ideas that create the perfect balance between chic and nonchalant. Recommended Reading 50 Cool . . .

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Bookshelf Fantasy

As it’s name suggests the blog BookshelfPorn (completely safe for work, we assure!) is for the avant-garde bookshelf lover amongst us. This delightful blog features a huge collection of bookshelves for any situation from the typical wall bookcase to the more humorous and perhaps less practical sculptural bookshelves. Bookshelves have long since been pushed to . . .

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A Bookworm’s Dream: The Bookshelf Tower

Although this bookshelf staircase is not functional as a living space, let alone for reading purposes, it is a pretty clever space-saving solution. Even the speed reading bookworms would have trouble reaching enlightenment living in this enclosed structure- albeit housing an impressively accessible 6,000 books! But just for fun, let us observe Rintala Eggertsson’s ‘Ark’, . . .

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Bookshelves As Room Focus

If you have been following us since September, you will remember some rather odd bookshelves we have featured here before at Home-Designing. Rather than going in the ‘odd’ direction this time, we lay more emphasis on how shelves can effectively become the focus of the room. The collections shown below are from two Italian makers: . . .

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