Bookcase with glass doors: choice and design

For the safety of books, their owners most often choose cabinets with many shelves for more convenient placement of this popular printed materials. Such cabinets usually have different parameters and features, depending on the taste and preferences of consumers. Most often, buyers opt for a bookcase with glass doors. Such products are made in numerous styles and colors.

A characteristic feature of bookcases with glass doors is the fact that all their contents are perfectly visible in them, because they are most often purchased for a dwelling in which there are unique volumes.

Bookcases with glass doors have certain advantages:

• in closed cabinets, printed products are well hidden from the sun and dust;
• in the glazed cabinet all the bindings are preserved better, here they look more attractive, and in the books there will be no yellow pages;
• at the expense of glass facades, anyone in the room can freely view the huge library of its owners;

• through the transparent doors you can find the necessary books much faster, and for this you don’t even need to touch the doors themselves;
• Any glass constructions help to visually expand the room, so it is very important to install these models of cabinets in a small room;
• various models of this type of furniture are made, so you can always buy corner cabinets or upright, low and high, narrow and wide;
• manufacturers of such pieces of furniture produce them in many styles and colors, which will allow you to choose the most optimal model.

The bookcase with glass has a number of drawbacks:

• glass is a special material, fingerprints and other marks are clearly visible on it, and sometimes it can be difficult to remove them, so taking care of such a cabinet will be serious;
• the price of furniture products, if they contain glass, is high;
• The wardrobe, equipped with glass doors, makes it possible to see its contents from any zone of the room, so you have to spend a lot of money to buy expensive books that have original and colorful roots.

The main models of cabinets for books:

• Rectangular structures that are installed along the walls. These models have the usual extended parameters.
• Corner cabinets are usually placed in the corner of the room.
• Hull models are popular because they are implemented in a ready-made form, that is, with specific shelves and the exact location of their placement.

• Built-in bookcase is usually made to order, so it can be installed anywhere. Its height sometimes even reaches the ceiling.
• Modular products are assembled as a designer. In this case, there is a good opportunity to combine all the elements in a manner convenient for the host.

• A deaf bookcase is when the product has shutters of the main material - wood, plastic, or the doors themselves consist of tinted glass. These models like the fact that there is no need to carefully monitor the order in the closet, because the filling of shelves is not visible to guests. An open type is when there are no shutters at all or when they are made of transparent glass.

Since the product is necessary for the safety of books that sometimes weigh significantly, it is important that it consists of durable materials.

Bookcases are available in the following materials:

• Chipboard or MDF is durable and not expensive materials. Instead of a chipboard, you can choose chipboard, since this material guarantees the purchase of a durable piece of interior, and you can place a huge number of various books in it;
• array - such cabinets admire their unusual luxury and environmental friendliness. Many well-known companies use real wood for the production of such cabinets. Most often, an array of beech and pine, birch and cherry, and a noble oak tree are selected for this. Today, unusual pine bookcases with glass doors are very popular.

• plastic - this material helps to produce an affordable cabinet, but it will have to be operated very carefully so as not to leave scratches or other marks on the surface. It is easy to care for him, because for cleaning the plastic surface you can use different solutions from soap, but you can not use hard brushes for cleaning. Plastic is the brainchild of a modern chemical industry, and this means a technological and economical option for the production of products. The plastic cabinet is easier to move and it gives a huge choice of color palette;

• glass - not only the doors are presented here, but also one of the sides of the product made of tempered glass surface (it is also called a “showcase”). So you can see the filling of the cabinet from different sides, it looks great if you install it in the center of the room, but you need to constantly monitor the purity of the glass - the presence of various prints can ruin the whole effect. Frosted glass cabinet doors are also popular. Cabinets with original stained glass look great in classic interiors.

Bookcases often have different designs, and furniture factories offer models with a specific content:

• not very high shelves for ordinary books;
• special shelves, compartments, there can fit only one edition;

• large departments in which you can store huge books;
• retractable small drawers, in which all sorts of small household items will lie.

Most modern apartments are not large, with low ceilings. For them, it is better to choose narrow or shallow bookcases. Glazed closet visually expand the perimeter. High cabinets under the ceiling will visually “lift” them; low cabinets will help to place various knick-knacks on the shelves, which will give the house even more style and comfort, and thus relieving the decor from the effect of congestion. Shallow cabinets, placed along the walls of the room, perfectly suitable for arranging books in one row. The width of the shelves will correspond to the width of the books to be placed and should be no more than 30-31 cm.

Bookcases are available in many models, and they are:

• With hinged doors. This model is considered the most popular and it is more often purchased. To open and close the door you only need to take the handles and pull them towards you. The doors of glass in this case are equipped with magnets that make it impossible to accidentally open them;
• With hinged doors. They are chosen very rarely, because of the glass surface, there may be some problems with their operation;
• Coupe doors also called the popular type of door in the bookcase bookcase. So that when using the cabinet the people in the street do not touch the glass itself, narrow panels of plastic or wood are mounted on the sides of the product. Doors in the form of a coupe are very simple to use, any bookcase with them will look more original.

Many modern furniture factories produce case models of furniture for storing books and built-in views.

• Built-in products qualitatively organize the proper use of any room layout. They can even be installed in a niche, if it is in the room.
• Cabinet cases are independent products which can be established in any room of premises.

In addition, bookcases are angular - to save apartment footage, linear - for large rooms or in the form of modules. Many models have shelves that are located at different heights and have different depths. In such products, you can rearrange the shelves by adjusting their height. Not so long ago, sliding-type bookcases began to appear in furniture stores. Their feature is the ability to replace each other entire sections.

For small rooms, a single-door bookcase will suit perfectly (the so-called “pencil case”). It will be a good help for those who are just beginning to build their own library.

If there is absolutely no room for a bookcase in the room, then you can use the mounted option - when shelves for placing literature are placed at a height (most often in a room with high ceilings). If there is enough room space for a bookcase, but not enough to install a wardrobe, use a model with lower drawers where you can store various things.

For the living room, which is decorated in a traditional classic style, it is best to choose furniture made from natural material that is beautifully decorated with carvings. Well, if this cabinet will be equipped with unusual handles made of bronze. Light models of beech or pine will visually expand a small room, and a product in golden-ocher tones will give a room or an office more respectable.

A white bookcase in the bedroom is a real find for a room where everyone is resting. Many ordinary people still like to read books before going to bed, so stylish furniture for storing books in this place would be appropriate.

The bookcase with wenge color glass doors is a very successful and stylish solution for traditional interior design. This shade is suitable for many design options, because the furniture in this color is a very beautiful decoration of the home. Furniture colors Italian walnut - a retro classic in a modern version. This color has a yellowish-brown hue with a hint of red. The bookcase in this color is in perfect harmony with the light flooring and golden tones of other furniture elements.

The style of the bookcase with glass doors will depend on the existing interior style of the room.

• Elegant classics combined with all possible design options. The most recognizable feature of the classical style is wooden furniture and laconic decor.
• In the interior in the style of high-tech, you can use a massively emphasized product, filling it with wonderful editions of books, you can turn the urban high-tech into a real mix of luxury styles.
• Young people most often choose democratic loft - products with simple shapes and straight features, from quality materials, with lots of metal and plastic.

• For lovers of luxurious baroque décor with lush ornaments, modern factories will help to find in their collections an excellent golden bookcase, similar to an antique piece, with glass made in the best traditions of style: with stained glass and inlays, intricate fittings.
• Antique style. Its main difference from other styles is simple forms of products. The smoothness of the lines and transitions, the absence of corners, the exquisite design - all this can be in an antique-style bookcase.
• Minimalism.The very name of the style suggests a minimum in all that relates to the appearance of the cabinet. Thanks to the glossy finish, the narrow space of any room will visually expand.

In fact, all furniture factories have in their wide range of models of products for books, among which there are models with doors made of glass. In the catalog, they are often called libraries. These cabinets have a huge variety of models, which differ not only in cost, but also in high quality of execution, originality of finish, elegance of used fittings.

The Russian company "Reed Master" produces affordable products from MDF and chipboard, plastic elements and glass.

The Swedish company Ikea offers a huge selection of sizes, styles and colors of bookcases with glass doors to fit even the most demanding taste.

Belarusian manufacturers "Bobruiskmebel" and "Pinskdrev" offer their stylish and high-quality products from the array, which not only decorate any interior, but also will serve you well for many years, keeping your library safe and sound.

The Italian manufacturer Elledue offers traditional cabinets, suitable for stylish design of the office of the head or the addition of a solid residential interior.

An excellent choice could be a cabinet in the form of a display case, having transparent glass walls on all sides. It can be used to divide one space into a number of separate zones.

If you have high ceilings in your house, then you can get the maximum benefit from this fact by installing several rows of bookshelves at the top of the room, access to which is provided by a solid mobile library ladder.

Modular shelves for books with glass can be assembled into a single large closet on the entire wall of the room.

The following video will introduce you to a wide variety of bookcases and original home libraries.