Today I want to give you some recommendations on how to create a bookshelf in your house or how to modify one that you already have but you feel that it’s not appealing enough, or that it is difficult to find the books in..

If you are passionate about reading, or you have a hobby of collecting books about a specific query topic or history, you probably want to put them in a place where you can show them as they deserve to be shown, and keep them in an esthetic fashion as well.

That is why today I want to give you some recommendations on how to create this book shelf inside the house or if you already have a bookshelf but you feel that it is not appealing enough or that it is difficult to find the books in, you can remove the books from the bookshelf, clean the shelf and the books and start over after taking these tips into account.

1.) Placement on shelves:

We must think about how we want to organize books, whether by color, alphabetical order, genre or author. You must think of how often you use them and find an ideal order to arrange them. You can also organize them by name and make a catalogue. If there are too many books, you can label each shelf with information about the books and their themes or genres.

Another option is to have several small bookcases and place them by theme in different places of the house. For instance, in the child’s playroom, children’s stories, science fiction or novels in the room, work in the kitchen, cooking recipes, etc.

2.) Cleaning, maintenance and ventilation:

These shelves should be away from direct sunlight because they have to fade over time and must be removed from the dust, possible comminution of the library furniture or cobwebs from time to time, it is also important to try to be a cool place, avoid the moisture in walls and smoke in place, because all that is absorbed by books.

3.) Books provided:

If you are one of those who lends books or have books borrowed, it is good to keep an agenda or control of these, either leave an area on your shelf only for borrowed books or a sign on the wall with a pen hanging log type, the said «tonto is who lends a book and more fool the one who returns it».

4.) Design and dimensions:

If the bookseller’s cabinet is very high, it is advisable to leave a good space to the front to be able to move away and to see in detail those of above, or to have close to a stool or sliding ladder to be able to reach them with ease and not that the case is given of leaving them in abandonment because of the discomfort in reaching them.

If you have a house with a very high ceiling but there is not much space in it for a wide shelf, you can place the shelf in the high part like small aerial furniture or simply climb with stairs to remove them.

Another option with the furniture of booksellers is to place them of horma horizontal, under a window or in the lower part of the desk.

5.) Decoration:

Remember that this furniture is also decorative, we can include in some of the shelves not to saturate them so much, some small sculptures, flowers and other details to give it a different accent and with colors that contrast with the books to give more joy to the place or otherwise, unify colors in space.

Another option is to manage the concept of furniture bookcase but adapt it to a concept of decoration of the room or room, for example in the form of tree, telephone booth, flower or star, musical instrument, etc.

6.) Lighting:

If it is a very large library we must place a small lamp that directly illuminates the books or inside the shelves hose type leds or fluorescent, so that they do not go through unnoticed books that are not seen. Sliding lights can also be fitted with rails. Likewise, if we are going to have a reading chair near this furniture, an excellent idea is to place a foot lamp that makes the space more welcoming.

7.) Color:

We can look for the color of the furniture and the wall to be contrasting to give this importance and presence to the furniture, although there are many furniture that are the continuation of a staircase, or a small niche that remained on a wall, however we can play with colors from the bottom of the library to give this focal point to the place.

I hope you have been very useful these tips, I am Fiorella Allain, designer of the internal space.

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