Bunk Bed Staircase Bookcase
Tamara Hubinsky's mission with this design was to make a hideout for the 9-year-old boy that would still accommodate him as he matured. The bookshelf stairs have been custom designed to offer storage and utilize precious bedroom area. The stairs also add structure to the attic bed, which can be important for kids' rooms which are subject to plenty of movement and heavy usage. Small stair rug treads (at a stone, riverbed pattern) add comfort and safety.
Library Chair
It is an easy chair, it's a bookcase -- it's two, two, two items in one! Believe it or not, there is 27 feet of publication storage space at Alexander Love's elegant layout. That is enough to hold 350-400 books, and there is a secret compartment under the seat that may be retrieved in front book shelf. It is made from 1/2-inch Baltic plywood, a nine-layer material that is incredibly powerful, based on Love. You can have the chair in the cloth of your choice, as the Library Chair is made to order. Available for $2,950 on Etsy.
Secret Door Bookcase
This hidden door bookcase leads from a workplace into the guest quarters at a private home in Alameda, Calif.. Developed by Mark Dutka of InHouse Design Studio, it is made of rift oak with a natural end, and is only one part of a highly intricate design which covers every inch of the room's walls. It had been rather the challenge, but Dutka's specialty is the design of custom cabinetry alternatives for specialized residential surroundings. Our inquiry is, what is the password?
Bubba Bookcase
Dutch designer Dille Thomas calls this bookcase "Bubba," explaining that it is "a yearlong multipurpose bookcase which is double as a lively room divider." He utilizes top-grade western red cedar pliers flowing into a natural form, held in place with just two spray-painted MDF panels that come in either black or white. It is created and manufactured in Somerville, Mass., and can be gotten for $2,850.
Celebrity Bathtub Bookcase
The A-List actress who had these toilet bookcases designed solely for her Hollywood-area house loves reading so much she desires books within reach at all times. Something tells us, however, her priceless original editions are stored elsewhere, as a steamy tub could ruin pages, spines and glue. But that reads priceless books in the tub anyway? The reading material here's only for pleasure and comfort.
Ladder Bookcase
Do not throw out that old wooden ladder that has been gathering cobwebs in your own garage for years -- it could be re-used as a arresting book storage alternative. Whether you leave it as-is since these people did, put a sealcoat on it or paint it to match or contrast with the rest of your decor, it creates an intriguing design announcement. In case you decide to angle your ladder/bookcase from the wall, then you might consider attaching fishing line along with a wooden slat across the back above each step so the books don't fall through.
Love Bookcase
Designer Ryan Webb was inspired to create this bookcase by his wife, who wanted a piece of furniture where they could exhibit wedding photos, records and keepsakes -- but it would work just too in a nursery or bedroom. It is five feet tall, two feet wide and four inches deep, and made of solid birch hardwood. He airplanes and sands every piece by hand to get a smooth finish, and sells these masterpieces on Etsy for an extremely reasonable $75.
Hallway Bookshelf
Why waste space with plain hallways as soon as you're able to add attractive, custom-built bookcases similar to this one, designed by Stacy Jacobi. Her design style was described as "New England Coastal moved to Hollywood," and we think this bookcase demonstrates that perfectly. Jacobi had the bookcase handmade by Mark Blaire, who used simple unfinished pine with glass panes, then painted it using Benjamin Moore high-gloss White Dove paint.
Wooden Spool Bookcase
This smart little bookcase, made from a recycled industrial cable bolt, can also function as a table, or in this case, a reading/coloring table for the small ones. Depending on the way you complete it, it may look equally nice in a bedroom, den or handbag. Painting or refinishing these spools can be a fun family project -- contemplate letting the children add colorful hand prints. And most importantly? You can often find them for a very low cost at home improvement stores.
Book Collectors' Paradise
This might look like an elegant library in a private club or grand Newport mansion, but it is actually an addition to a one-story, Mediterranean-style home in a tiny California town, additional on where other people might have built a garage or game room. Patterned after a library within an Austrian monastery, the room was built to maintain the homeowner's tens of thousands of volumes, in addition to emphasize family commitment to education and literature, creating a reading respite and escape out of a high-tech, digital world.
Book Towers
Metal book racks like this one are perfect book storage solutions for small spaces because the situation itself does not take up any space, and it's super easy to fold up or disassemble and proceed. Modern novel "towers" like these usually include a horizontal, narrow aluminum spine, mounted on a rack, with "shelves" that stretch out for book piling. The height of the shelves may frequently be readjusted. It is simple to discover these apparatus at most casual storage and furniture stores.
Chancellor's Bookcase
This stately bookcase is befitting the award-winning house of the chancellor of North Carolina State University. Designed by Design Lines, Ltd. and built by Rufty Homes, it was assembled as four boxes that were then set flush in-wall. We particularly like the faceplate overlay using the dark lacquer finish that serves to frame the bookcase. Note the way that it was also used on the baseboard where the cabinets are put, anchoring it to the room.
Staircase Bookcase
A measure up in book storage, such Japanese-inspired "Tansu Stairs" were created by Steven Ehrlich, FAIA - Ehrlich Architects and hand crafted by David Albert. They are put in a sustainable residence only 1 kilometer from the Pacific Ocean, and are built to reflect the bohemian spirit of Venice, Calif.. A staircase bookcase is a great space saver in a house like this one, constructed on a narrow lot.
Query Mark Bookcase Reading Light
Designer Tembolat Gugkaev made this fascinating bookcase/reading light combo together with help of his wife Ashlee Webb and Ryan Webb. He calls it the Wha Cabinet, referencing its question mark shape. Produced mostly of MDF, the shelves are colour backlit. Position it next to your sofa or favorite reading chair, and sew! It holds books and encircle them at the exact same time.
Bookcase Room Divider
Look carefully at these bookcases and notice that they're constructed on industrial disk casters, designed to be amazing and functional office/room dividers. They're literally colorful, moveable walls. Hanson Hsu of Delta H Design Inc. made them with both function and form in mind. The briefer, higher shelves hold smaller novels, which are lighter. The middle three shelves hold standard-sized binders and/or medium-sized books, while the exact tall lower shelves are for large-format artwork, photography and architecture books, which is heavy and cumbersome, therefore simpler to manage down low. These bookshelves are constructed of walnut and possess a frosted Plexiglas backing so the books don't fall through.
Fireplace Bookcase
Got a fireplace that you use? Why not clean out it, paint it, and stack your books inside. Or, if it's a massive fireplace, then you could build a wooden framework to match the distance, fit it with shelves, and it'll appear like a built-in bookcase. This will make the intriguing statement that nothing warms the heart and spirit like great reading material.
A-Frame Bookcase Chair
This smart reading chair and bookcase combo was designed and made by Tembolat Gugkaev, with help from his spouse Ashlee Webb and Ryan Webb. Gugkaev lives mostly from the Caucasus Mountains in Ossetia-Alania, but will send his design, which he calls "Tatik," everywhere. Produced mostly of MDF, its pyramid shape lets you save your books on three sides, so you won't need to get up to change reading material.
Gallery Wall Bookshelves
You could have a great selection of photography and art books, however you can just stack so many at one time on your coffee table. Why not display those beautifully constructed covers where everybody can see them: gallery style onto narrow shelves? For drama, use novels with all white and black covers against a bright, strong colored wall. For pleasure, use books with covers in a variety of colors and shapes.
Children's Room Bookcases
Children's novel covers are these works of art, why not show them as such, instead of tossing them in a pile or placing them so that just the backbone shows? Narrow shelves that allow you to display books with out the cover add pops of bright color and attention, helping children make that all-important decision about what story to read before they go to sleep.
Book Display by Color
Sometimes it's not about the bookcase, or even the book itself. Note how, in this instance, books are saved and organized by colour. You'll observe designers using this motif quite often nowadays, with the right-colored books replacing vases or alternative knick-knacks on display shelves. For the most colorful effect, paint the bookcase either deep black or plain white.
Wall-Mounted Spine Shelves
Whether they're made of metal or wood, wall-mounted backbone shelves make it possible for heaps of your favorite magazines and books to become colorful layout elements in a room. They also conserve space, and, because the novels are observable from many angles, so these shelves promote business and discourage clutter and messiness. Since they will bear a considerable quantity of weight, you will want to take care to mount them to beams, instead of plain drywall.
