An indispensable element of furniture for the interior of each house are wall shelves. Despite their primitiveness and simplicity, it is rather difficult to do without them. In addition, the shelves are able to significantly transform the housing and make it original and unusual.
Wall shelves are used not only to place books, but also to store other items used in everyday life quite often. Using your own creative abilities, you can create a beautiful composition of wall shelves. By placing this element of furniture in each room, you can create the individuality and originality of the style of housing.
Convenient to use are wall shelves for books, a place for which is not always found in the house. They are also indispensable in the bathroom, in the kitchen for storing spices and cereals, and are also often used for small items that do not want to be hidden away in a closet.
There is a large selection of wall shelves depending on the material used in the production, their shapes and design style. Wall shelves always create coziness and comfort in the living room for its inhabitants. Such a decorative and functional look of furniture inevitably attracts the attention of guests at home.
Shelves can be closed and open, which are selected depending on their purpose and location. Open shelves are mounted everywhere, but most often they are installed in the bathroom, where all the necessary hygiene items should be at hand. Also, many housewives consider open shelves in the kitchen an indispensable type of furniture, which is very convenient for cooking. Books located on such shelves will look very beautiful. Closed shelves are best fixed in the living room or bedroom, where small items will be stored.
Almost everyone can create open wall shelves with their own hands. For this, the desire of the master and the presence of ordinary boards, which are easy to fix even without brackets, are necessary. The thickness of the material used is selected based on the expected loads on the shelves. They are attached using metal, best reinforcing rods, the diameter of which should reach 10-12 mm. Threaded rods that are easy to use for this purpose will be screwed into a wall anchor when fastened.
Before proceeding with the location on the wall of the shelf, you need to make markings on the wall, along which this element of furniture is installed. By hanging multi-tiered wall shelves, more serious fastening methods are selected. Most often duralumin channels are used. They are attached to the wall and then finished shelves are hung. Also, instead of channels during installation, sometimes they use wooden bars and battens. When choosing this type of fixation, the wall shelves are hung on the screws, and so that the rails are not visible, they need to be tinted and veneered.
Depending on the chosen direction in the design of your own housing, shelves are attached in different parts of the room and have their own decoration options. To give the interior completeness over the sofa, wall shelves with books are fixed, which are convenient to choose from while sitting on the sofa. In this corner of the room mostly open shelves are installed. In addition to the functional purpose, they can also be placed with the purpose of decorating the premises. In this case, they have various souvenirs that complement the style of the room. Shelves above the sofa can be located in a horizontal or vertical position, as well as in a chaotic manner.
For fans of country style wall shelves are an important element in creating the appropriate style. In most cases, they are used in the kitchen. Making this corner of the house in the country style or Provence, many designers abandon the upper elements of kitchen sets, leaving room for wall shelves.
In the bedroom, the wall shelves are conveniently placed at the head of the bed, where all improvised items will be folded. Shelves are also used as decorative elements, on which flowerpots are sometimes placed.
Thus, by installing wall shelves in the house, you can create an atmosphere of comfort and harmony of your own home.