Open shelves in the interior

But when it comes to open shelves, which can either stand on the floor or be located on the walls, some problems arise here. These problems are usually from the category - “Why might an open shelf be needed at all?”. Of course, they can be replaced with bedside tables, chests of drawers, pencil cases, etc. They will not show the content, and they can be located in special niches, saving space. But in themselves, such shelves have a great influence on the interior, both decorative and practical. There are three types of open shelves in total - wall shelves, floor shelves and shelves built into wall panels. Accordingly, each of the options has its own characteristics of use.

Wall shelves

Wall-mounted open shelves often have a very bizarre shape, since in the context of a given piece of furniture, these most bizarre shapes are the easiest to implement. Often you can see such shelves in the form of a tree, a circle, just with asymmetric surfaces. Usually they are located in the children’s room or bedroom, where you need a place more for decoration than for practical needs. They usually have photo frames, figurines, and occasionally books. They are made from a variety of materials - it can be wood, metal, glass. You will not see plastic, as it is not very reliable relative to hanging objects and may not withstand. The main advantage of wall shelves is that they save space and complement the main interior, creating a minor (or significant, if it is a custom-shaped shelf) accent.

Floor shelves

Such shelves are often used as a bookcase, zoning a room, or in the bathroom when you need space to store various bath accessories. Open bookcases are incredibly popular right now, as they have already found a huge number of uses, ranging from just a bookcase to using it as a decorative accessory. Usually, these bookshelves are made of either wood or glass. Well, for the bathroom, plastic and MDF are more characteristic. Such shelves are also used as a place to store decorative things, but recently they are becoming less common, as people are less and less using the so-called “dust collectors” for decoration, which in large numbers simply stand on the shelves without even having great decorative value.

Built-in shelves

Open shelves built into wall panels cannot be called shelves in the full sense of the word, since they are still part of the wall panel. However, it is difficult to underestimate their practical and decorative properties. This option performs two functions at once - it decorates the room and creates a certain space in which you can place useful and not very things. In general, shelves equipped with doors are built into wall panels much more often, but this option is not uncommon either. Naturally, most often you can see such combined shelves in the living room. The most common material is wood, since it is wooden wall panels that have the most fans.

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