How to make simple and original bookshelves by yourself

The most convenient option for placing a small home library is wall shelves. Their advantages over bulky cabinets are that they do not take up much space, they are functional, easy, they allow you to quickly find the right book. These home interior items give you the possibility of constructive improvisation, new modern design solutions, because with the help of conventional materials you can create interesting stylistic objects.

It is quite possible to make simple bookshelves by oneself . For starters, it is important to correctly identify the place for their placement. It can be a small partition, part of the wall near a window or door, which, as a rule, is unoccupied. It is undesirable to place shelves with books above the sleeping area (for safety reasons), in wet rooms, on a bright sunny section of the wall. Another fact that must be taken into consideration is that the bookshelves made with their own hands, served for a long time and retained their appearance - their dimensional parameters. The length of the shelf should not be more than 80 cm, and the width of 20-25 cm, just enough so that the books on it were placed correctly, did not fall, and it did not sag under their weight. For the manufacture of shelves it is desirable to use a natural wooden board or a laminated furniture board. The thickness of the board is about 4-5 cm. Now in the building stores you can buy ready-made planed and polished boards of various sizes and thicknesses specially designed for furniture manufacture, as well as various brackets for fastening parts to the wall. Putting it all together, without unnecessary hassle and labor, you can collect standard bookshelves by yourself very quickly.

But manual furniture manufacturing involves a creative approach. You can buy a simple shelf in the store, but to build an unusual exclusive object is another matter. At home designing and manufacturing of book shelves it is necessary to show imagination. For example, make them in the form of a spiral, diverging from the center of a broken line with straight angles. On each horizontal part of this spiral are placed books. It's easy to manufacture. Boards of the same length and width, using self-tapping screws and glue, join each other "twisting" at right angles. Another example is the bookshelves with their own hands, made in the form of a stylized tree branch.

A more complex option for independent production is a bookcase. Here you can suggest one of the easiest ways to make a bookcase with your own hands with the help of drywall. To this end, of the sturdy steel guides, a frame is constructed on the wall in the form of two vertical side walls of four profiles and horizontal profiles arranged between them, which will strengthen the structure and serve as side holders for the shelves. Before the gypsum cardboard framework is finished, we will make marking in places of passage of horizontal guides to know where to fix the holders for the shelves. The shelves themselves are desirable to be made of boards or thick tempered glass. The stitched gypsum cardboard cabinet is decorated with relief plaster, pasted with wallpaper into the tone of the walls or painted with paint, after having leveled and plastered the surface. Instead of gypsum cardboard, the frame can be covered with a dense decorative cloth, and for its attachment to the profile, use self-tapping screws. The facade of the textile cabinet is decorated with a cloth divided into two panels and secured on the sides with decorative holders.

Bookshelves for children - this is the space for the manifestation of creative imagination. The very style of this space allows you to create the most unusual objects. It can be bright multi-colored turrets with pointed roofs, decorated with real shingles, constructions in the form of cars, trains, etc. The main thing is that when making shelves for children, observe the safety rules, the main ones of which are to avoid dangerous acute angles, use only environmentally friendly materials, it is good to fasten the shelves to the wall.