The bulky cabinet furniture has lost its relevance, and a light shelves of walls come to replace them with their own hands or collected from finished blocks and girlfriend. In design and originality, they successfully compete with extravagant products in the style of high-tech or country. A wide variety of ideas on the construction of shelves find their embodiment in any residential and utility room. Take into service the most interesting ideas in order to free part of your living space from the old furniture and not bringing the joy of things.

What types of shelves are most functional?

Without wall shelves, the hallway and children's, bathroom and kitchen do not cost. They give the interior of some uniqueness, and the room looks more riddled and cozy. Not everyone will decide to do something from the furniture on their own, but something must be started. There is nothing easier than to master it with a craft so that the shelves do from the girlfriend. You can store everything that I do not want to hide on the cabinets and boxes.

Today the most popular shelves are open open, but each has its own functionality, depending on the purpose of the room:

  • in the hallway - for bags and hats;
  • in the living room - for interesting collections and sets;
  • in the bedroom - for cosmetics and room colors;
  • in the bathroom - for shampoos, detergents of dry towels;
  • in the bathroom - for household chemicals;
  • in the nursery - for toys, books or training materials;
  • in the kitchen - for dishes, spices, groceries.

The shelf can be destroyed only for a specific subject - violin, collection dolls, a small aquarium or books. In our selection - original and at the same time, functional shelves wall mounted, photo:

Shelves wall-mounted in utility rooms that perform a utilitarian role should also be careful and aesthetic. It's nice to look at the accurate rows of strong reliable shelves with blanks in the pantry, with tools on the balcony or seasonal things in the dressing room.

Often, the original shelves are a kind of art object, which is chained all the attention - due to the unusual shape or material from which they are made. They do not exhibit many items to not distract attention from the original form of crossing horizontals and verticals on the wall.

On the other hand, the objects put on the shelves are often unique in themselves. And in order not to distract attention, a clear shelf is required mounted wall mounted glass with an invisible mount. For example, an author's collection of the work of Hand Maid or brought from the overseas countries, souvenirs, corals and large shells are exhibited. All these things should not be stored in the closet, and without the shelves can not do.

Tip: Before the construction of the shelves wall-mounted with their own hands, make it up to the smallest things:

  • compliance with the overall design and material of the type of room where it should be placed;
  • general load;
  • fastening type;
  • stylistics;
  • functional.

Main varieties of wall shelves

The material for the manufacture of the shelf and the fastening method determines the workload on the wall and the structure of the shelf. Often outdoor furniture items are attached to the wall. For example, shelves for shoes fixed on a vertical surface become nasty. The fastening load will be large, especially if they are made of wood, and not in the form of light collapsible structures made of steel wire and plastic.

ATTENTION: There is a sufficient load and in wall shelves for flowers - due to the land, which is filled with pots, vases and porridge. It is important to take care of the safety of family members and animals that are often climbing them - reliable fastening is necessary.

The classification of wall shelves covers several aspects. According to constructive features:

  • open and closed (with the door);
  • console type;
  • corner and straight;
  • with jumpers (limiters) on sides and without them;
  • with anterior glass or mirror door;
  • with a closed back or end-to-end;
  • rectangular or in the form of one plane;
  • multi-tiered;
  • with vertical racks and identical light crossbars;
  • with retractable doors and swinging;
  • rounded or with straight corners;
  • fantasy form, inclined, diamond, etc.

The most original wall-mounted shelves design - Photo:

The most common types of shelves and their features

Classification of shelves based on materials from which they can be made:

  • glass and mirrored;
  • wooden or processing materials - MDF, chipboard, plywood, laminate;
  • metal;
  • polymers and plastic;
  • combined - where several different materials are used.

Structurally the most popular such types of shelves:

1. Wall shelves with light supports on the floor or cabinet furniture below. They are withstanding the greatest weight, as you can not worry about the fact that their mount will not withstand the load. So often make shelves under the equipment in the living room and under the shoes in the hallway. This design does not occupy a lot of space and successfully replaces the rack or furniture headset for the hallway, while the surface of the floor is not cluttered.

2. Classic shelves wall-mounted in the form of a rectangle - a favorite topic for a homemade master. They are attached directly to the wall, and whether there will be a closed backdrop and sliding glass doors - each master decides itself. The advantage of this design is that not only the inner surface is effectively used. Upstairs often put single items - desk clock, vase, pots with flowers. And on the side surface you can consolidate the mode of the day, calendar or "reminders" to yourself in the notes.

3. Original multi-tiers combine several functions in themselves. They successfully replace a whole rack for books or closet for documentation. They can combine the intersection of horizontal and vertical planes. Often they are made asymmetric or with original sidewalls. Or is it just a set of identical horizontal planes. The advantage is that you can give the will of fantasy and to build something unique.

4. Corner wall shelves help effectively use free corners. The most common samples are for the bathroom, but there is a lot of original options for any room. They eat something common - fastening the shelves from two sides on both related. This design is quite reliable and withstands a large load. The last trend of eminent designers is a transparent angular shelves of their glass on the brackets that are sold in building stores. They are easiest to do themselves.

Tip: Start from the simplest - Wall shelves with their hands from glass and mirrors. Order a set of glasses of the same shape in the workshop, where the ends Master must work for safety. Secure the finished brackets at the same distance in the free corner. Shelves are suitable for books, indoor plants or souvenirs in a residential room and under shampoos and objects of hygiene - in the bathroom.

Mounting varieties

Shelves and mounted cabinets are attached to cabinet furniture, and although this is the simplest product, but they are designed by the method of fastening. There are very original, such as multi-tier shelves or porridge for flowers, suspended to the ceiling or walls. As a flexible base use:

  • wicker harnesses;
  • "Vitushi" from Macrame;
  • belts;
  • knitted twitch;
  • decorative ropes, etc.

Often the mount performs not only a utilitarian function, but also is an original stylistic solution. An intricate shelf metal wall can find decent use in many styles. For example, wrought sidewalls wooden shelves with enhanced mount to the wall - the original decoration for the kitchen in the style of country or Provence.

The classic sample is the shelf mounted wall, it is important to securely secure them along the walls. This design is suitable for most rooms. Hinged shelves for books will help accommodate foliants, rare publications, periodicals, textbooks, dictionaries and much more, without using bookcases or racks. Shelves can be equipped with a wall that is not suitable for furniture. For example, we decorate the bookshelf the wall around the front door.

Wall shelves with reliable fixation are designed for greater load. Hard fastening - a guarantee of a large load capacity, which is provided:

  • construction dowels;
  • anchors;
  • brackets.

Collapsible or removable shelves can be deleted and increasing as needed. For example, when most of the wardrobe, most seasonal clothes go to the hallway, and the sweaters in the wardrobe, then part of the released space can be disassembled.

Collapsible shelves are very convenient for shoes in the hallway. Often, special holders are used for such a design, where the number of shelves-jumpers is adjusted arbitrarily, easily change and their height relative to each other. Such a "puff pastry" from the shelves makes it possible to use the space most rationally.


How to start the construction of the shelf homemade master?

If, when reading to become and watching illustrations, some idea accounted for taste, it is worth moving to its embodiment. The algorithm is extremely simple:

  • select the sample like as the basis;
  • make outline with the size or dimensions of the shelf;
  • draw an exemplary sketch, as it should look like on the wall or in the corner in a certain room;
  • decide with the materials and type of fastening (from what is already there is at home and check something);
  • we estimate the workload (mounting normal or reinforced);
  • we make marking on the wall strictly horizontally;
  • we will open or blanks;
  • we produce assembly;
  • install brackets or mounted loops;
  • complete the work of grinding or ending, so that the work looks extremely neatly;
  • breeping the shelf on the wall (ceiling) and check the reliability;
  • we check the horizontal and, if necessary, make additional adjustment.
  • we place the items for which it is made.

Tip: Laminate or chipboard is also suitable for shelves, but it is difficult to cut under the shelves at home. It is better to resort to the workshop service providing similar services. There shelves will be offered at the same time to ferment and supply mounted loops.

Selecting room for homemade shelves

1. The shelves do it yourself are most appropriate in the children's room, where they are designed to become part of the original decor. Any idea on childhood theme is suitable - a tree with branches in the form of a fairy-tale wood shelves or a niche of flexible materials forming seven-flower flowers.

2. Interesting wall shelves will become a worthy decoration

in the living room, desktop or library. They help unload the room from excess cabinet furniture, optimizing space. In the modern living room, the Soviet sample with dark bulky cabinets is not a "walls". The best solution is lightweight designs with diode illumination.

3. Shelves in the corridors and on the staircase space are indispensable as a purely utilitarian object. But their original form will noticeably revive and update these corners at home. All sorts of angular and multi-tiered structures will become an integral part of the interior, if approaching it creative.

4. Original wall shelves round shape will decorate the free wall in the hallway and complement the existing hangers and cabinets. Round niches from a large cross section plastic pipe are located on the wall like bee honeycombs. They are comfortable to fold the caps, gloves, umbrellas and bags. Everyone will have their own shelf (niche), and for children they should be downstairs.

5. Shelves in the kitchen and in the dining area - how do they do without them? An excellent way to keep everything before your eyes, but at the same time, for many small items there is its own place. Such an order in the kitchen will accelerate cooking and cleaning - every cup of plate or frying pan immediately after washing is sent to its place.

6. Whole wall-mounted shelves from wall shelves on metal supports rated fans of aquariums. There is an opportunity in any free corner of the dwelling to put several tanks with water inhabitants on each other with backlight. The same design is appropriate and under multiple flower pots on a glazed balcony or loggia - it will free on a narrow floor strip.

7. Shelves in the bathroom, bathroom, pool and shower are also indispensable. Otherwise, where to give all these means of hygiene, household chemicals, cleaning and detergents, shampoos and soap? It is best to equip premises with high humidity with glass or plastic shelves. The most suitable corner multi-level option.

8. Shelves in the dressing room, pantry and utility rooms - purely utilitarian equipment. If the total space is most thought out, equipped with numerous shelves, then quickly find any item will not be difficult.