All About Wall Shelving

It is impossible to give all the information about desktop shelving in one publication. Today it's not just storage shelves placed on the wall to save floor space. This is a fashionable trend in styling in functional and residential premises, a stylish solution to the problem of missing space in small rooms and kitchens, a convenient thing in basements, cellars and garages. Numerous offers from manufacturers are easily explained by the demand from the consumer. But there are also variable designs, invented and made by the hands of folk craftsmen.

Wall shelving has been a fashionable trend in interior design for several years now. It is positioned as a factory or home-made design that performs several tasks at once. Here are the undeniable advantages of this type of unusual furniture.

1. Wide price range of products. The democratic cost allows you to purchase a simple rack even for a person with limited financial resources, there is an average price category, as well as sophisticated options for those who are not constrained in funds.
2. Polyvariety of solutions. This category includes both one shelf and an original design solution - a multi-tiered structure for style design.
3. A wide assortment allows you to solve any problem: the classics are placed along the walls, and the corners usually take up empty space. The most original option - suspended structures can successfully perform additional functions - to zone the space and at the same time give it originality and originality.
4. Undoubted decorativeness can be solved with the help of fasteners, colors, thickness of shelves (an indispensable structural element), the materials from which they are made. In addition to wood, metal, glass, laminated chipboard and MDF, plastic, and colored polymers are used.

The demand for the trend has not only led to the emergence of a diverse assortment. You can find tips on choosing the material of manufacture, arranging items on the shelves for functional and decorative purposes, matching to the general style of the room and making it yourself. There are also proposals for custom-made, installation, creation of original projects in an individual version.

Do not chase changeable fashions. But wall shelving is, first of all, convenience, space saving and room decoration style. This is a comfortable design that was invented for a long time, which first became in demand in small rooms, and only then turned into a fashion trend with its many types and solutions. Difference criteria are now determined not only by design features (although this is still the main way to differentiate products), but also by color gamut and style.

Modern manufacturers offer variable types from floor-standing to hanging and wall-mounted (the latter category is more often referred to as wall-mounted shelves).

• The wall rack can be a bookcase, slide, showcase. It is used for both books and clothing.

• There is an open or closed rack. Open is more often found in the garage or kitchen, in the bathroom for the convenience of the owners free access to the contents of the shelves. Closed - with a back wall or with sliding doors, they can also be habitually opening.

• There is a division into prefabricated and solid. Prefabricated - modular, consisting of several separate module segments that vary in the order or sequence of placement. Solid - when hung, the structure remains unchanged.

• You can search by location. Narrow will save space in the hallway and in a small bathroom. With a ceiling mount, the shelving is justified in the living room and any spacious room - it can perform additional functions.

• For a home designer, the main criterion can be the color scheme. White, preserving the natural texture of wood or stone, gold, silver metallic, Art Deco or Provence style, combined (two- or multi-color).

The decisive condition for installing a wall rack can be the mounting method: in a new or old house, with concrete or brick walls. In a secondary housing stock, where the wall covering is already less durable, you can use different options for fastening. But the main argument in any solution to an alternative is still the material of manufacture.

It is not difficult to equip a hinged rack on the wall with your own hands when it comes to familiar building materials - wood, chipboard or even laminated plywood. It is more difficult for a home craftsman to handle metal, plastic or shockproof glass. Such products are easier to purchase at a furniture store, although there are craftsmen who are not stopped by the complexity of the material for the wall shelving. Experts remind that a plastic shelf, despite its lightness and cheapness, can easily deform in a suspended or hinged structure, and its appearance is not always presentable. On sale there are combined variations of polymers and wood, glass and metal, but the choice should always be made deliberately.

Traditionally, two types are offered for sale - welded and collapsible. Welded metal structures are not disassembled into their constituent elements. Depending on the type of metal used, they have different indicators of severity, degree of durability (the metal may corrode or contain additives that prevent the destructive process).

The most common use of metal in wall furniture is in individual parts. This can be a support stand - a frame on which the entire structure is supported, legs or shelf holders. Aluminum and stainless steel have suitable properties and are often used for additional decorative effect.

Wood is an excellent building material, easily yielding to the hands of home craftsmen, familiar to the mentality of a temperate climate, and besides, it is environmentally friendly and warm. It is easy to dye, but the preservation of the natural texture gives a rather favorable impression of the finished product. Even made not from a solid board, but from chipboard, chipboard or plywood, they are able to withstand a significant load on the shelves, look beautiful and neat, can be in different colors and last for a long time due to the variety of paint and varnish compositions.

The most cost-effective manufacturing option, most often purchased in stores. The lightness of the design and all kinds of color variations are captivating. However, they can deform if you overdo it with the load on the shelves. And they are not entirely harmonious in a stylish and expensive interior in relation to other furniture, objects of art.A wonderful and almost safe item for decorating a child's room or balcony.

Recently, unexpected building materials are in a special trend - drywall, laminated plywood and shockproof glass. However, they are mainly used not for functional, but for decorative structures. Combined racks on the walls are popular, successfully combining the strength and stability of individual metal parts with spectacular visualization and properties of wood, lightness and durability of plastic.

Wall racks are distinguished by an enviably wide range of applications. It may seem that they are only needed to decorate the walls and free up space, but there are also various options for the home:

• in the garage or mini-workshop on the balcony - for tools;
• in a corner for needlework, for thread with spools, knitting accessories or macrame;
• wooden and metal in the kitchen - for storing blanks, spices, kitchen utensils;
• in the living room and office, they can accommodate a flat-screen TV, art objects, collections, books.

Interesting ideas can be seen in our photo gallery, where you can get a lot of valuable information:

• shelving on the wall as an interior detail;

• for the office and the nursery;

• as a wall panel;

• for a home greenhouse;

• for a bookcase;

• for books and clothes;

• for art objects.