Black Shelf

There are many advantages of having wall-mounted shelves. They prove to be excellent for decoration or storage and organization of many household items. An appropriately selected and positioned shelf can change the entire looks of a room. However, before you go out to shop for one, you would do well to assess these factors:

Your budget

The purpose for which you intend having it and accordingly: Assess the weight and size of the items to be stored therein.

For instance, you could consider having one in the bedroom for keeping a few photos or perhaps a small collection of books or curios. In case you like to have your TV there, you should surely have a wall mounted heavy-duty shelf with a swivel arrangement. In case the bedroom is a bit too small, perhaps a wall-mounted shelf could be a good substitute for the night stands by the side of your bed.

For the bathrooms, the shelving could be of glass or wicker and provide storage for towels, bath salts, perfumed candles, potpourri and even plants. Having a shelf next to the bathtub can be used for keeping bubble bath, scrubber or a magazine and reading glasses. Such an arrangement while being practical adds to your convenience and to the décor of your bathroom.

Likewise, there are many options for including a shelf in the kitchen to hold your spices and cookbooks and you may have a small herb garden of your own by the side of the window.

In case you are short of floor space or the floor is uneven, you could replace your bookshelf with a wall mounted heavy-duty shelf. In such an eventuality it’s important to choose an appropriately designed shelf that can securely be mounted on the wall to carry heavy weights. It’ll be good to visit some local home improvement store and gather some information on the subject before attempting for such shelving arrangement. It saves you from a lot of subsequent unnecessary embarrassment and expense.

There are many benefits of having wood shelving on the walls. You can buy it in unfinished state, which can be sanded for subsequent painting or lacquering. The installation of such shelving on the wall is quite easy, and depends upon the weight it’s going to carry and whether you are mounting it on a wallboard or plaster.

You also get flat shelves of varying depths. These are fixed on metallic strips that are screwed in the studs on the walls. The advantage here is that the vertical strips enable you adjust the height of the shelves as per the size of the items to be stored therein. The other options is to order your items online or visit a furniture store to buy a ready to use shelf along with the needed supports that can easily be installed.

Wood shelves don’t get broken so easily, but are easy to clean. They tend to get warped under very rare circumstances. However, you shouldn’t overlook the fact that these are usually heavier than most other materials. It will be a smart idea to have glass shelving if you want to display framed photographs or delicate collectibles and curios, as glass is not likely to distract the attention of viewers from the displayed items.

Incase you are finding it difficult to choose color scheme for your room, having already tried a couple of combinations; you should seriously consider a black and white color combination for your room. It’s quite contemporary, having a black and white style, and gives the feel of a French country. Contrary to expectations of most that a black and white combination limits your options of decorating, there are a lot of ideas that you can put to practice for enhancing the décor of any room with black and white theme.

Keep the Walls Light

If you decide to have a black and white style, you certainly can’t have all your walls painted in black. The walls should have a lighter shade, preferably white or perhaps light ivory color. That gives you an ideal background to black shelves and you pieces of art on the walls. Should you feel too strong about having further contrast on the walls, you may consider painting crown molding with smart black to achieve additional contrast.

Add Patterns to the Black and White Room

One sure way that prevents the room from acquiring dull looks is the inclusion of patterns therein. The patterns may vary from checks and stripes to toile and paisleys. It’ll be very bold of you to have designs of animal prints such zebra.

· It’ll be nice to have a chair or couch in a black and white pattern for the family room or even a living room.
· Having a comforter in a black and white design in the bedroom adds an element of interest in the room.
· In case of black and white dining area and kitchen, think about having patterned fabric on the chairs or for window treatments.
· Accessories like blankets, pillows, towels, and bordered wallpapers can all help to have black and white pattern in different rooms.

Change It Up with the Seasons

With a black and white background you can adorn your place for varying seasons by just adding various kinds of normal decorative materials. You may like to add small knickknacks like candles or colored vases in different shapes. You may exploit even the larger pieces for the purpose. For instance, an area rug on the floor, or a piece of artwork on one of the walls and even a blanket at the back of a couch adds flavor to the room.

· Of course you know that red color goes extremely well with black and white color. So, you could include red items during Christmas.
· And, during the fall, simply add orange elements to decorate your room.
· With the coming of summer and summer, you can somewhat lighten the room using yellow or turquoise accents.

Now, you’ll agree that it’s neither too difficult nor too expensive to have a black and white room. Just go around to look for items that would jell with a black and white theme and fit in the overall scheme of things that you may have in mind. You really don’t have to be very strict in following that black and white theme. Having just a tad of color hither and thither can bring character to the room. Though the room may remain in black and white, you should surely add your personal style that makes it so distinctive.

There is little denying the benefits of having shelves. This a perfect accessory that not only helps you to take care of clutter but also adds to the looks of the space where it is installed, as the area suddenly begins to look organized, and starts giving a neat look. Organizing your place saves you a lot of time as you can get the needed item quickly, without having to search for it all over the place. That saves a lot of irritation and frustration and thus you are at peace.

Here I’m going to give you some examples of how people have been exploiting the shelves to create additional space for useful purposes. These are of great help, especially when you have a limited space. By the time you are done with this article, I’m sure you would have got some ideas on how to exploit shelves for your benefits.

I’ll start with the example of my friend Tony and how he made use of wall shelf in his living room. Tony with his wife Jennifer possesses a home in New York. Its design includes three bedrooms with two and one half bath ranch home with a living room that has a fireplace in the middle of the wall on the far end of the room. For more than a decade the couple has been collecting limited edition crystal figurines.

Initially, as the collection was small, they displayed the items on the coffee table and end tables of their living room. In due course of time the collection became larger and larger and needed a specified place for itself.

As there was no space for a large curio cabinet, Tony got an idea. He thought of using the empty space just above the fireplace by making use of wall shelves.

After considerable online research the couple decided to have a floating glass shelf arrangement named as the “Wave”. This curved glass shelf has a size of 24 inches wide by 8 inches deep. The design of these wavy glass shelves is such that you can pull them together to have a wave-like formation for as long as you like by just adding a new 24-inch shelf side by side.

Tony and Jennifer opted to include two six-foot long shelves on top of the fireplace. The shelves, about 18 inches above each other were sufficient to display the whole collection of crystal figurines and the living room looked amazing.

Now, I’ll tell you how John and Gina transformed their family room into their entertainment room. One of their walls housed a 60-inch flat panel TV. Underneath the TV they had a solid oak wall mount shelf open cabinet, which had shelves wherein they stored their CD and DVD collection.

The receiver cum amplifier unit of home theater and the subwoofer of the audio system was kept on top of the shelving cabinet. In the four corners of this room they positioned corner wall shelves made from honey oak. The corner wall shelves reaching about 2/3 height of the ceiling housed the other speakers of the home theater system on top. My experience of watching a movie with them was as good as in a movie theater.

Here comes the last example of creating extra room with wall shelves that one of my neighbors opted to follow. Bruce and Maurine own this home. They changed their basement to a hobby room by installing pool table on one side and a ping-pong table on the other side.

This couple and their two children, Shauna 12 years old and Michael 14 years old, are very much into sports. Shauna participates in the figure skating team at the neighboring rink. Michael is a member of the local little league baseball team during summers and joins the hockey team at the local rink during winters. Both Bruce and Maurine are on separate bowling leagues.

As you would expect, over the years the family had collected lot many trophies. The collection reached a point that it could no longer be properly displayed and needed a definite space for the purpose.

Maurine realized that plenty of space was available in the basement recreation room and thought of using it by providing a large shelf along each wall. As a result of conducting an online search Maurine got a perfect shelf for displaying the collection of trophies.

Maurine installed the Vertigo 4 piece shelf set in Java, a dark coffee colored wood. The installation of 4-piece set provided sufficient room in all four walls of the recreation room to display the entire trophy collection of the family.

Wall shelf provides extra space to display your valued possessions. More than that you also enjoy a type of wall furniture that brings in a warm comfortable feeling. Spend some time on the Internet or visit some stores to check various styles of wall shelves and you’ll most certainly find a style to suit your requirements and brings you a good feeling.