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9 ideas and tutorials for making your own bespoke bookcase

Article : 9 ideas and tutorials for making your own bespoke bookcase

Here's our selection of tutorials on how to make a bookcase to your taste: choice of niches, width of columns. Whether you want a decorative bookcase or one for storage, it's up to you to choose the right balance.

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Here's our selection of tutorials for making a bookcase to your taste:choice of niches, width of columns. Decorative or storage bookcase, it's up to you to choose the right balance. Here are a few inspirations from our customer library photos.

1. Dressing up a wall panel with a bookcase

Dressing up a wall panel is a good solution. As well as sometimeshiding an unsightly wall, this solution also breaks up the monotonous look of the room by adding touches of colour and dresses up your wall quickly.

Equipped with a niche, it allows you to sublimate your decoration in your library but also to create an imposing piece of furniture that gives character to the room, for example by choosing colours in wood or coloured tones. Open niches will also allow the furniture to be opened up and aired.

2. Design for your bookcase

You can choose a colour for each panel of your bookcase. White shelves or coloured wooden drawers, become the decorator and design your bookcase down to the smallest detail.

It's also possible toplay with the setbacks of each panel, to create a discontinuous effect on your bookcase.

Tiny plus: play with the thickness of each board to enhance the design of your bookcase by giving it a more or less solid effect. You can also open the unit by removing the sides. Don't hesitate to contact our decorators to see your project personally with you.

3. A massive wide bookcase

To reinforce the massive look, close off the niches with our made-to-measure doors and drawers. You'll be able to achieve an impressive look.

Playing on the massive side can also involve storing books. Once the bookcase is full, a grandeur emerges, both in its style, but also in the literature it contains.

These large bookcases can reach heights of 3 to 4 metres depending on your ceiling. Of course, always allow for a gap of 2 to 3cm to make sure our bookcases fit into your spaces. You can always adjust the height later using the adjustable feet on our bookcases.

4. Column bookcases

Both simple in aesthetic and design, they can prove very useful in cramped spaces. The advantage of bespoke is that you can explore the entire depth or height to minimise wasted space.

5. Backless bookcases to create room dividers

Furniture may not be fitted with a back. By this fact, visible at the front and back, bookcases can be used as room dividers, to define a space without partitioning the room with a wall.

The niches in the room dividers can be fitted with partial backs, to dress up the unit with colour. What's more, these partial bottoms keep the furniture upright so that it remains stable.

6. A bookcase in a TV cabinet

As the centrepiece of the living room, the TV cabinet fitted with shelves can be transformed into a bookcase. This very attractive two-in-one with a large niche to accommodate the TV can be fitted with storage with fronts underneath.

By playing with the depths, you can make a lower part and an upper part with different depths, for aesthetics and for its use.

Discover our tips for creating a bespoke television cabinet in this article.

7. An unstructured bookcase in height

You can play with the height of each column in your bookcase to create a piece of furniture with variable heights. Once again, the harmony of colours breaks the monotony of a single colour on the piece of furniture. The unstructured heights of the columns also highlight the wall at the back by not totally hiding it.

8. Sloped bookcases

Our bookcase units can also be adapted as sloped units. Our configurator automatically calculates the slope of the unit based on your dimensions. The unit is easy to assemble, despite its special nature. Now is the time to dress up your attic spaces, something that is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. You will also find other examples of creations in this article.

Our made-to-measure bookcases and shelving don't necessarily impose a style, it's up to you to define it using our tools, with attention to detail for a unique piece of furniture that's completely thought out according to your plans. Finally, don't hesitate to contact us if you have any specific requests.

9. A built-in bookcase

The strong point of made-to-measure: being able to fit any piece of furniture wherever you want. This solution is sometimes no more expensive than some mass-produced furniture and fills the space you want without leaving any empty niches. In some smaller rooms, the space you save is obvious. In larger rooms, it dresses up and enhances your wall.

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