Furnishing with bookcases: here is how to make this furniture the protagonist

Furnishing with bookcases, an art capable of enhancing your home environments and making them extremely functional at the same time. What is the perfect bookcase for your home? Today, this furniture is conceived not only as an instrument for containing books, but as a real element of style capable of separating two environments, joining them, or changing the look of a specific space.

In this article we will give you some important tips to learn how to furnish your spaces with the help of a bookcase, making it the undisputed protagonist of your environments.

Bookcases: different furnishing functions

In a contemporary environment bookcases can take on various furnishing functions, specifically these furnishings can be:

• Dividing elements: ability to delimit spaces and be double-sided
• Freestanding: freestanding that separate rooms without the need for fixing to a supporting wall
• In plasterboard
• Shelf

Some tips for furnishing with a bookcase

How to embellish a bookcase? How to furnish a bookcase without books? Here are some practical tips and ideas for decorating your spaces with the help of a bookcase. The first important indication that we want to give you is to try to learn how to use other objects to prepare on the bookcase, and not only books and books. In this regard, you can place ornaments, boxes, frames and vases on the structure: plants are an extremely important decoration element for a bookcase.

When choosing the position in your library of the objects you have selected, the important thing is to use contrasts of colour, materials and shapes to create variety and fascination.

Obviously, the furnishing elements you have chosen must be linked together by style, theme or colour. As far as the insertion of books is concerned, they can be placed in the bookcase not only vertically but also horizontally.

How to renovate an old bookcase

Furnishing with a bookcase also means deciding to modernize an old piece of furniture. Many of you will have an old bookcase in your garage or basement, which with a few simple measures can be modernized so that you can live a second life.

In order to renovate an old bookcase, we recommend you do the following:

• On how to display books and objects
• On the lighting, by inserting LED strips (such as LEDs on the shelf), or by simply placing lamps on the shelf

To personalise your furniture even more you can also decide to repaint the bookcase, using a new colour; alternatively you can decide to only repaint the bottom of the furniture. Both solutions will make your bookcase so unique that it will become the centrepiece of your home.

Bookcase and furnishing books

Did you know that there are real furniture books? These are those volumes characterized by particularly attractive and, so to speak, successful covers, able to express themselves in real works of art that have become icons.

They are mostly design, fashion and art books. In a bookshop you can therefore prepare some of these furnishing books, together with normal fiction books. Do not prepare your university pantries, magazines or photocopied books in a bookshop.

Features and peculiarities of contemporary bookshops

Contemporary bookcases have a specific element in common: it is the great height of these furnishings: in fact, their considerable momentum allows these furnishings to create a particularly evocative environment, creating a great visual effect.

Often and willingly the very high contemporary bookcases are modular furnishing elements. As can be imagined, lighting represents an aspect of fundamental importance in the design of contemporary bookcases. In this respect it is always important to make sure that the lighting of your bookcase is effective in order to avoid the so-called dark wall effect.

How to design a bookcase

Here are some important tips for the design of your library. In order to design your bookcase, it is first of all necessary to pay the right attention to the aspect related to the composition of the furniture. The composition is one of the themes with which many people encounter problems. Regardless of the objects you decide to place on the shelves, the important thing is that they are able to match each other harmoniously.

It is also important to pay due attention to the layering of your bookcase. Making a contemporary bookcase in which only books and volumes are arranged vertically makes little sense from a stylistic point of view. Your bookcase will not be without furnishing objects and accessories. When arranging them you should not be afraid to hide some things, always referring to this important criterion: put the highest objects at the back of the shelves and place more objects in front of each other.

Finally, when designing a bookcase it is important to pay the right attention to the size and scale of the furniture: it is not important if your bookcase is an extremely simple shelf, or if it is a furniture characterized by particularly important dimensions: it is however necessary to find the right balance. You can therefore choose to arrange different objects in the furniture, while maintaining the right coherence of shapes, colours or materials used for their creation.

The lighting of a bookcase

As mentioned in the previous paragraphs, the lighting of a bookcase is a crucial aspect: in fact, it is a really fundamental step, especially if your bookcase is characterized by important dimensions.

For the lighting of your bookcase you can choose between several options:

• Lights, fake flameless candles or lanterns
• Objects or books that light up or even LED shelf lights

To find the perfect lighting for your bookcase, you must always choose the type of colour temperature and brightness you want.

Led bookcase lights

Compared to common incandescent bulbs, LED lights are measured differently. Led lights are in fact characterized by a greater reliability and it is also possible to install them in narrower spaces.

Led lights are also able to produce little heat: for this reason they are able to work for several years even if installed in a partially enclosed space.