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, are functional, lightweight, and allow you to quickly find the right book. These home furnishings provide the opportunity for constructive improvisation, new modern design solutions, because with the help of ordinary materials you can create interesting stylistic objects.
Making simple bookshelves with your own hands is quite possible. To begin with, it is important to correctly determine the place for their placement. This can be a small wall, part of the wall near the window or door, which, as a rule, is unoccupied furniture. It is undesirable to place shelves with books over the sleeping area (for safety reasons), in damp rooms, on a bright sunny stretch of wall. Another fact that must be taken into account in order for bookshelves made with their own hands to last for a long time and retain their appearance is their dimensional parameters. The length of the shelf should be no more than 80 cm, and the width of 20-25 cm, just enough so that the books were placed on it correctly, did not fall, and it did not sag under their weight. For the manufacture of shelves, it is advisable to use a natural wooden board or glued furniture panel. The thickness of the board is approximately 4-5 cm. Now in construction stores you can buy ready-made planed and sanded boards of various sizes and thicknesses, specially designed for the manufacture of furniture, as well as a variety of brackets for attaching parts to the wall. Combining everything together, without too much hassle and labor, you can assemble standard bookshelves with your own hands very quickly.
But the manual production of furniture involves a creative approach. You can buy a simple shelf in the store, but to build an unusual exclusive object is another matter. When designing and making bookshelves at home, imagination should be shown. For example, make them in the form of a spiral diverging from the center by a broken line with right angles. Books are placed on each horizontal part of this spiral. Making it is easy. Boards of the same length and width with the help of self-tapping screws and glue are connected together by โtwistingโ at right angles. Another example is do-it-yourself bookshelves made in the form of a stylized tree branch.
A more difficult option for self-production is a bookcase. Here you can offer one of the easiest ways to make a bookcase with your own hands using drywall. For this, a frame in the form of two vertical side walls of four profiles and horizontal profiles located between them is constructed from strong steel guides on the wall, which will strengthen the structure and serve as side holders for the shelves. Before sheathe the frame with plasterboard, make markings in the places where horizontal guides pass, in order to know where to mount the shelf holders. The shelves themselves are preferably made of boards or thick tempered glass. Sheathed with plasterboard cabinet is decorated with relief plaster, glued with wallpaper to match the walls or painted with paint, having previously leveled and puttying the surface. Instead of drywall, the frame can be covered with a dense decorative fabric, and self-tapping screws can be used to attach it to the profile. The facade of the textile cabinet is decorated with a cloth divided into two panels and fixed on the sides with decorative holders.
Bookshelves for the nursery are room for creative imagination. The very style of this space allows you to create the most unusual objects. It can be bright multi-colored turrets with gabled roofs decorated with real tiles, constructions in the form of cars, trains, etc. The main thing is to observe safety rules when making shelves for children, the main ones being to avoid dangerous sharp corners, use only environmentally friendly materials, and fasten shelves to the wall well.