A Bookshelf is a piece of furniture or wall attachment that is used to store books. It has one or more horizontal shelves. You can also make an invisible book shelf that is camouflaged by design. A lot of people build their own and it can be fairly easy. There are dozens of designs and you can even make up your own, according to the space you have available in your home or office. A bookshelf is ideal to hold the toys and play items in a child room or you can build one for the bathroom for necessities, or for TV room to hold the DVDs and gaming equipment.
The Better Homes and Gardens website has 30 different designs for bookshelves and these are meant to inspire you to copy them in your home or come up with your own design. If you are handy with a hammer and nail, you can get design ideas from every where you look. A bookshelf can be implemented into any room, no matter how tight the space is. There are designs that take the shelves all the way to the ceiling, with French doors and windows in the middle of the bookshelf and all of this take up less that a foot of floor space.http://www.bhg.com/decorating/home-accessories/accessories/bookshelves-styles-sizes-photos/
Almost every home has some type of shelving in their home and the homes that do not come with shelves, some are soon installed from the basic need of more space.
History:
When books were written by hand only the wealthy could afford them. Storage was not a problem as many people only had a few. Those who had many books stored them in cupboards. Over time the cupboard doors were removed. Without the doors the cupboards resembled the bookcases we know today.
Featured Video :: How To Build a Bookshelf
This is a short video that is showing how to build a bookshelf. The carpenters, along with a narrator explain how to build a bookshelf in one day. There re several close-ups that give a better understanding of the process. Measuring, cutting and sanding is shown.. The guys cut and put the pieces together and finish assembling the case. The video result in a usable, sturdy bookshelf.
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Fast Facts
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Built-in bookshelves are ideal for the small areas, kitchens or dining room
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For maximum storage space, an entire wall can be used for the bookshelf.
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There are paper book shelves sold in retail stores.
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There are book shelves in all price ranges, from a few dollars up the as much as you want to spend to get a top quallity hand made bookshelf.
