We all have things at home that we need to find a place for: books, documents, photographs, souvenirs, tableware ... Shelves, bookcases and cabinets They are the storage solutions that we resort to not only to organize each of the rooms, but also to decorate them.
Among the many storage alternatives the white bookshelf It stands as the favorite to decorate kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms, bedrooms and work spaces. The search for simplicity and a taste for open spaces makes this furniture the perfect alternative to decorate them and avoid overloading them.
One of the keys to properly furnish our home is to work together on the decoration and organization of the spaces. How? Betting on adequate storage solutions. The white shelf is one of our favorites for this. Its simplicity makes it easy to adapt it to rooms of very different styles and on white walls, it gives us clean and light spaces.
Types of white bookshelf
There are many types of white shelves with which we can furnish our home. Not in all spaces our needs are the same. These are not the same either; the dimensions of each of them will largely determine that shelf type it is more suitable. Roughly, we could classify them into three groups; floating, niche and modular.
Floating shelves
Floating shelves are a great option to add extra storage to any space in our home. They allow us to take advantage of corners of the house that we could not otherwise take advantage of and this is a great advantage.
Floating shelves work very well in the kitchen, where we can use them to replace the upper cabinets. In small bathrooms, they become a great ally for storing all hygiene products in baskets. They are also a great resource in workspaces, to gain space and have everything at hand. Wherever you have little space and / or you want to visually lighten the load of furniture, floating shelves become the best option.
Niche shelving
Niche shelves are those that are built into the walls and between partitions. These plasterboard shelves have the advantage of not taking up any space, which contributes to adding spaciousness to the room. If you have a hole in the wall, why not take advantage of it?
Niche shelves are common in lounges and workspaces, where they are mainly used as a library. Although they are not only books what they contain; normally these are interspersed with other more personal objects in order to create a more welcoming image.
Furniture Shelf
You can use white shelves to decorate a whole wall of the classroom and place in them all the books you have. You can also opt for smaller shelves and place one next to the other on the same wall so that it is not bare. Then you will only need to complement them with some boxes or baskets that provide you with extra storage space.
The shelving furniture is visually heavier. If you want to save a lot of things without taking up much space, iron bookcases they are a great alternative. They are visually lighter than their counterparts made of wood. Everything will depend on the effect you want to achieve.
Wall color
One of the reasons to bet on a white shelf is that it is camouflaged in the wall. A cleaner and visually lighter space is thus achieved. However, this may not always be our goal. In spaces where this is not a priority, creating a more or less striking contrast between the wall and the white shelf can be interesting.
White wall
'Blending' the bookcase with the tone of the walls is a widely used tool in interior design. This way, the shelving is integrated and avoiding overloading the space. In small and dark spaces this option is the most interesting. But it is also so in those spaces in which you want to achieve a open-plan, clean and modern appearance.
Colorful wall
Painting a wall in a different tone from the rest helps us to give dimension to a space. In a living room this wall can be the wall of the sofa or the wall in which we place the work area, to give some examples. A white shelf can help us in these cases to make this corner much more attractive, which will undoubtedly attract all eyes.
Soft contrasts, such as white with a light gray, provide a relaxing and elegant atmosphere. If the intention, however, is draw attention quickly on a certain wall, the ideal is to create strong contrasts with vibrant or dark colors.
Guidelines for decorating the shelves
What are you going to put on the shelf? Oddly enough, there are also certain guidelines to help us present properly the objects on the shelves. Simple guidelines that will allow us to create more balanced and harmonious spaces.
- Place in the highest part what you are not going to need, in the central part the most personal; and in the lower part, in boxes, the less showy.
- Do not place more than one eye-catching object per shelf so as not to overload it.
- Choose three colors and stay true to them when purchasing decorative accessories.
- If you add boxes, baskets or filing cabinets make sure they are the same to create a coherent aesthetic. And don't put them all next to each other; put something between them to break the monotony.
- Don't fill all the spaces; it is necessary to let the eye rest.
- Do not put the books only vertically: place them horizontally will give movement to the result.
- Place some objects in front of others. The result will be more natural that if you put them aligned.
- Give it a natural touch with a plant. If the shelving is very linear, bet on hanging plants to break the hegemony.
Doesn't the white shelf seem like a wild card with which to decorate the different spaces of your home?