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How Can Floating Shelves Help You In Your Home
October 27, 2009
Everything in the house has a use and therefore needs a definite place for its storage and there is a better way of storing it by using wall shelves. Once you have taken care to keep your floor space free of all clutter, the room begins to give a pleasant look, and what better way to keep things organized than wall shelves! . So it´s reallz cool to use wood shelf in your home.
Rooms come in all shapes, colors and sizes and the good news is, so do wall shelves. Be it any kind of a wall, tall, short or high, there is a well designed shelf available for it. Some of the shelves are designed to fit in the corners of you room while you might hang others from the ceiling or just keep them on the floor. There is no need to get rid of any of your treasures, just add wall shelves.
Let’s take a look at a few styles of shelving. The common variety of the wall shelf is two brackets that one shelf rests on. You may like to have a more decorative shelf or shelving bracket in rooms that you use for living or entertaining, for a decorative shelf adds value to the wall, making it look elegant. Plain wood or metal brackets are great for closets, storage rooms, basements and garages.
They offer a good opportunity of using the corner space of your rooms. Most often we are unable to make use of corners for displays or even storage of items. Make use of corner shelves for a display of some beautiful flower vase or the photos of a gone by era or even family antiques. So go ahead and take advantage of those unused corner and hang a few corner shelves.
A very exclusive design of shelving is a ladder shelf that has a decreasing size of shelves as you move up the ladder. The bigger shelf at the bottom can hold large items like large vases, baskets or books. As you go up the ladder, the shelves get smaller but are more than capable of holding CD’s, photos and collectibles. Ladder shelves take up some floor space but if you have a little extra, ladder shelves are great additions to any room.
You may have hanging shelves in almost any room. They are especially handy when your wall space is limited, and because they do not take up any floor space they can be hung over anything from your desk, TV or an end table.
And, finally we have floating shelving. The mounting hardware is hidden between the shelf and the wall, giving the appearance that these shelves are suspended in mid air. A well designed floating shelf transforms any wall into a graceful focal point of the room with a display of your memorabilia.
You are only limited by your imagination when it comes to uses for shelving. A great way to decide what you want to do with shelves is to look through books and magazines on wall shelves and storage. Take a trip to your local shelving stores or home supply store and check out their displays and ask the sales people what’s new in shelving. Fixing new shelving on the walls is an interesting and easy DIY project that you would love doing get better looking walls that are more useful too!
