Shelves for books: forms, materials, fixtures ways to make

Few remember that before the queue for new books is not inferior to the queue for the latest smartphone brand and bookshelf usually used only for its intended purpose. Today it is a universal Cabinets and shelves for storing a variety of items, and they are spacious and ornate, suitable for pantry or offices, so much more. Bookcases and shelves is not so simple a subject as it may seem, at first glance, so in our review we will look at HouseChief.ru, some shelf gathering easiest and which are not, you need to know about the different types of racks to make them their own hands and, finally, where it is profitable buy.

Racks and bookshelves: photos, descriptions

Cabinets, shelves, racking differ in both volumes and the type of construction, as well as their features and functionality are highly dependent on the material from which they are made.

Types of shelves at the place of installation:

• wall;
• floor;
• portable or mobile;
• suspended.

Wall shelves

Wall shelves for books - this is the easiest and most common option for storing print media. The most primitive design is a conventional board with brackets for mounting on the wall, a little more complicated - four boards, forming a rectangle or square and stacked structures of various geometric shapes.

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Outdoor shelf for books

Floor structure or stack are a combination of open shelves and the cabinet and used for storing books, accommodation photos and decor items. This piece of furniture should have good stability and can be easily moved to any place in the house or apartment. Floor shelves may have classical a rectangular shape or be angled.

shelves for books outdoor

Shelf for books Montessori

At the beginning of the last century Italian educator Montessori method is proposed for the early development of children, which soon became very popular throughout the world. This teaching method involves the use of special furniture and educational materials to help the child to develop independently. One such element is the bookshelf Montessori, which consists of two sidewalls, and pockets or shelves with crossbars for books that are most relevant at the moment for children development.

Montessori shelves for books

Portable bookshelves

Portable or mobile home library shelves in the living room and make it easy to change the situation by simply moving them to another location. Typically, this design in the form of a horizontal rectangle or a small column, mounted on the legs or special wheels or rollers. Mobile shelves are mostly open.

Materials for the manufacture of bookshelves

For manufacturing shelves, cabinets, Racks and shelving units used a variety of materials: wood, metal, glass, plastic, drywall, glass, etc. Also, when creating designs for books, combinations materials.

Wood

natural wood It is a classic material for shelves, cabinets and shelving. Wooden furniture always looks nice, presentable and expensive. From this material, you can make a shelf of any configuration, and it is well combined with metal and glass. Wooden structures for the storage of books with proper treatment can last long enough and large enough to sustain the load.

The original book of metal shelves

Typically, in the production of shelves and shelving to create the frame is metal, and the surface of the arrangement - wood, glass, plastic, chipboard. storage of books made entirely of metal, mainly used in libraries and archives and is very rare in normal homes and apartments.

Glass and plastic

Wall Shelves made of glass look very nice, modern and stylish. Despite the fact that this material seems fragile, in fact it can be quite strong. However, in order to make their own glass shelf for books, you will need certain skills.

Nice look bookshelves made of plastic, which are only suitable for modern interior styles. This material is durable, fairly easy, cheap and easy to maintain. Plastic shelves for books is mainly used in the glassed-in balcony, equipped with a seating area.

plasterboard structures

It can be made bookshelves and gypsum board, but it is quite bulky design due to the width of the profile and the material itself. But this has its advantages - high strength, any configuration and the possibility of resettlement backlight. Gypsum can enter virtually any shelf interior.

Ways securing bookshelves to the wall

A method of fastening shelves wall depends on the design of the storage system and the type of surface to which it is mounted. The shelves can be mounted on special brackets, hinges anchors or directly to the wall (if the design).

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Bookshelves in the interior of the apartment

Bookshelves, cabinets and shelves have long ceased to be just a place to store and print media are an integral part interior. To these structures harmoniously fit into the environment, it is necessary that they were made in one style decision. Because it is difficult to imagine, for example, a plastic book shelf style high tech in a classic interior, and vice versa. Also plays an important role and design of the shelves, cabinet or rack.

Classic design

Despite the fact that furniture designers compete with each other in creating the most unusual and original bookshelf, classic still remains popular. Classical structure for storing books can be mounted, floor (stationary or mobile). For classical interiors are perfect bulky structure, preferably made of expensive wood. AT country style harmoniously will look deliberately rough wood shelves. For modern interiors use shelves, cabinets and shelving or metal laminated chip board, or plastic.

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Corner shelves for books

Corner bookcase, cupboard or rack allows more efficient use of space, as well as become a connector between two free-standing walls in two different designs. They can be wall and floor and consist of one or several sections. For their manufacturing using virtually any material:

• wood;
• chipboard;
• glass;
• metal;
• plastic.

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bookshelves corner

Design bookcase

Design can be considered practically any product created by an individual project, and is not produced in large quantities. This applies, in particular, shelves, racks and cabinets. Immediately it should be noted that the designer furniture is quite expensive. Artists of furniture create their masterpieces from virtually any available materials: metal, glass, wood, etc. Designers can turn into a bookshelf, even a broken pieces of old board trays or vegetable boxes.

Fancy bookshelves and shelves

In addition to the use of wood, metal, chipboard, plastic and glass, it is possible to make unusual bookshelves on the wall of the materials at hand - a pipe (metal or plastic, Chains, vegetable boxes, cables, trays, etc.).

How to make a shelf for books with their own hands

Furniture manufacturers offer a large enough range of shelves, racks and cabinets of very different designs and prices. You can buy a shelf for books, but you can make them their own hands, that is a snap. To make your own bookshelf, cabinet or shelf, is sufficient to make the project, to buy material to have the necessary tools and minimal experience with him.

So, in order to make their own hands a bookshelf, you may need the following materials:

• chipboard or MDF;
• wood or plywood;
• plastic;
• glass;
• metal.

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You can use one of these materials or a combination of them, which will create a quite original bookshelves. As for tools and accessories, make sure you need:

• measuring tape and a ruler;
• electric drill and screwdriver;
• Screwdriver Set;
• tips for tightening fasteners;
• Furniture with a tube of stainless steel or Æ16 32 mm;
• SCREW;
• Screws 16 × 3,5, 20 × 3,5, 30 and 50 × 3,5 × 3,5 mm;
• edge;
• iron or building a hairdryer;
• PVA glue.

Doing their own hands bookshelf made of wood or chipboard

In order to make any furniture, you must first create a sketch and drawing. To learn how to do this with the PRO100 program, we have already written on the pages of our online magazine in the article "How to make a closet with his hands." If you can not use the program, the drawing can be done on an ordinary sheet of tetrad in the cell, each cell will be denoted by 10 mm. We'll show you how to make a design for a shelf of books on the PRO100 program example. As already mentioned, a design thing - this is something that is made in very limited quantities.

Photo	Description of work
	To simulate the beginning of our shelves. This visualization will help to see how ready the regiment will look in the interior.
	For convenience, you can divide the design into separate parts. At this stage it is already possible to accurately determine the sizes and, therefore, to choose the right raw materials and accessories for the assembly of the shelves.
	On the sketch is seen basic point fastenings. Connecting via Cox (wooden pegs cylindrical shape) is the most difficult option as required attachments and the maximum accuracy and attention. In principle, the same can be said about rafiksah and minifiksah.
	Driving assembly minifiksah. This process is complicated for a beginner furniture maker, as you need to perform a very accurate marking the junction of two parts. However, the advantages of this type of fastening lies in the fact that the shelf can be disassembled and assembled many times as needed, and at the same time the design is not cranky over time. In addition, this feature allows you to make an invisible fixing by the connection point, which is not the SCREW.
	Assembly scheme using additional strengthening minifiksa and cokes. In the narrow parts, where each side just one fixture, need additional fixture that will provide wooden pegs (coke), completely hidden.
	Beginners can learn here is this, a simplified version of the shelves. And if you have carpentry experience, the presence of material, tools, fantasies and desires can make most unusual shelves on the wall of books.

expert advice! Counting the bookshelf, and any furniture, you should always take into account the thickness of the material. For example, if the design height is 500 mm and the horizontal parts are attached to the ends of the side walls, the side plates must have a height of 468 mm (if used chipboard 16 mm thick.). The same applies to the width of a bookshelf, i.e. always take into account the material thickness.

The cost of self-made designs are much cheaper than purchased, besides get pleasure from what they made with their own hands and are unique.

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Hand made shelves for books

On the same principle as described above, can be made and bookshelves. The difference is only in the dimensions of structures. Shelves can be made of almost any size and use them as barriers, as well as to the space zoning studio apartments. Similar systems for books may be made of wood, chipboard, metals, and even from scrap materials (pipes, trays or logs).

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At what price you can buy shelves and racks

Picture	bookshelf Model	Average cost (as of April 2018), rub.
	Falcon PC-10	1 800
bookshelf Falcon PC-10
	Smolensk P-01.11	1 950
bookshelf Smolensk P-01.11
	Master-8 Arto Wenge / Oak Milk	3 150
bookshelf Master Arto-8
	Merdes PC-20 with glass pearls White, Wenge	5 050
bookshelf Merdes PC-20
	Merdes PC-3	1 000
bookshelf Merdes PC-3
	Falcon PC-9 bleached oak (to assemble modular shelving)	1 500
Falcon PC-9 bookshelf
	Imago PNS-1	1 650
bookshelf Imago PNS-1
	Merdes PC-30M TO-BE hinged	3 500
bookshelf Merdes PC-30M TO-BE
	Style PN-1	2 600
bookshelf Style PN-1

Deciding to buy a hanging shelves for books, should bear in mind that the price of the product depends on the model, the manufacturer, the material and the region.

A few words in conclusion

So, we discussed the different types of shelves, found out what materials they are made and how they can be made. We hope that the information provided will be useful to you, and if you have any questions, write to us, and the editors of the online magazine HouseChief.ru happy to answer each of them.