Built-in bookcase designs

Built-in bookcases come in various shapes, capacities and content. In one way, they are like a tree with many branches twirling and twisting and no matter which way you bend them, they always look pretty. A bookcase is certainly a blank canvass which awaits the imagination of its creator.

Built-in bookcase designs can be classified into two categories; the usual/conventional and the unusual/unconventional. While the former follows distinct rules of location and design , the other is simply an outlaw. The possibilities in variation of designs more or less lie in the height of the side columns, the trimming at both ends; the crown molding and the wood itself. Apart from these structural components, the addition of a door, glazed or transparent might to the keen eye, add security and elegance.

To be precise the following are some of the favorite design floating around the market:

1. A bookcase in the living room around the fireplace. It might gently rise from the level of the top of the mantel and extend all the way to blend with the ceiling. The paint must be done keeping in mind the harmony with the austerity of the fireplace and the passion of fire.
2. A bookcase in your bedroom which is carved softly on the either side of your bed. The design must not include more than a few tier, to ensure the bedroom reader’s imagination doesn’t run too wild and make a bedroom look a library.
3. The crown moldings can be elaborate or simple but in either case must be apparently significant so as to stand out from the rest. The roof hut pattern comprising two gentle slopes of oak flowing down smoothly is both classic and likeable.
4. A bookcase along the flight of a stair case, with each step improving the view of a certain shelf looks very grand.
5. The shelves can either be fixed or moveable. It might even have one fixed and the others slide able. Some prefer barrister’s bookcases wherein the individual components are detachable to function as independent carriers.
6. Modern day bookcases believe in trying the abstract. A design involving multiple cubes of shelves intricately placed above each other though not end to end, adds another component of beauty to the whole scene, that of "suspended animation". Designs of these kinds are often termed as "equilibrium" and go well with pristine furniture.

The list is as elaborate and endless as is the human imagination. For all shapes and sizes, colors and patterns signify the taste of its creator. As they put it "beauty lies in the eyes of the wood holder".