Shelf Wall

Whatever be the size of a bathroom in any house, there is always a good possibility of creating an extra space, which can gainfully be exploited for storage. An easy and well accepted way of achieving the purpose is by adding bathroom shelves or wooden cabinets of dependable quality. Shelving for bathroom is available in many different designs and made from different materials. However, before going out to buy any shelving arrangement one should have some basic knowledge about them and understand the kind that will prove more durable in the long run and would best suit the bathroom.

While looking for shelving system for the bathroom, care should be taken to ensure that these come with a sturdy base rather than a delicate one to ensure that they remain secure. Plastic shelving bases should be avoided as plastic tends to develop cracks and breaks down a bit too soon. Wooden bases on the other hand have proven more reliable and longer lasting. Wooden variety is more dependable and should be favored for that reason.

Bathroom shelves are ideally suited for creating more storage areas in the bathroom. Apart from storing the most frequently used items like toothpastes, toothbrushes, soap dispensers; these are also good for keeping extra stocks of items like shampoos and soaps, which in any case are always needed in the bathroom.

If looking for having additional storage area within the bathroom, it will be a good idea to include some wooden shelving of good dependable quality. Such cabinets allow the homeowner to store a number of other items normally required in a bathroom, like shampoos, conditioners, shaving kits, hair dryers. Depending on the availability of space homeowners often store their bath towels, hand towels, and laundry. Some of the shelving arrangements are provided with a separate enclosure for storage of common medicines. So, having shelves of appropriate size can surely be used not only for item of daily use in the bathroom, but also for other infrequently needed bathroom items.

Wood is among the popular and well accepted material used for cabinets because of its sturdiness that allows it to securely hold the stored items. There are different kinds of woods used for making shelving and include cherry wood and pine wood. These are available in many designs from the simplest to very highly decorative ones with intricate designs, allowing the house owners to buy as per personal tastes and requirements to complement the existing décor of the room to be provided with shelving.

You get many options for procuring such shelves and cabinets. You may order these online or buy them from any home specialty store. You may even have them made to your specific size and design. The prices vary largely and will depend on the kind of material used and the size.

Here, in this article I would like to share my experience of having sold my house for a better price. Though I put that on sale, for the first six months I failed to get a reasonable buyer and that set me thinking of ways to make the house look attractive from a buyer’s viewpoint. I decided to have a couple of cabinets and bought some of those and incorporated some unique homemade cabinet shelves. I realized that the place gave a very organized look that so impressed a buyer that I sold it within a month and was paid $1K above the price I had originally anticipated. This I how I could do it:

As a first step, try to find ways for organizing your house. Any place in the house from bedroom to bathroom that has items scattered around needs to be organized. You are likely to find clothes, shoes, tools on the floor and random items on your tables around the house. That kind of a scatter should prompt you to think on the lines of cabinets with proper shelving.

Imagine for a while that you had a box for keeping tools. You could possibly dump all your tools in this box. Now, stretch the idea a bit further and think if the tools box had a couple of layers or sections of varying sizes wherein you could accommodate different tools, depending of the size and shape of the tool. Wouldn’t that be great? Any tool that you require at any time is easily retrievable without wasting a moment! Such an arrangement allows you to use every inch of the space available in the toolbox. That’s the kind of facility and utilization of space we should aim for while considering having cabinets and cabinet shelves at home.

Look for different rooms and mark appropriate points in all the rooms where you could include cabinets. You can surely find place for such cabinets in the bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom and garage too. You may use them for storing your clothes, shoes, medicines, tools and many more items. You can further extend the pace by making your own cabinets or buying them readymade. Though most cabinets are sold along with respective shelves, you should not be restricted by whatever is offered and there already. Use your ideas to further make compartments by creating partitions within the available compartments to accommodate items of varying sizes. The goal should be to maximize the available space.

Once you have done that, the house will definitely get more organized and impressive for the prospective buyer to pay more than your expectations. By smartly employing cabinet shelves to exploit the given space you stand a chance of making additional $10K like I could!

For any home to be free of clutter and thus remain better organized, it is almost necessary to include some kind of shelving arrangement that allows storage and or display of household items. Of late, ladder shelves seem to be coming back to picture. It will not be wrong to say that many of the present day interior designers prefer to recommend this arrangement due its ability to offer a unique style to the house. Modern designs of ladder shelves have a sleek construction, occupy little floor area and remain very functional for a variety of uses.

Ever wondered why are ladder shelves so called? That’s simply because their design is quite akin to construction ladders that can be moved around the place. It’s shaped like a pyramid that has many level trays which are attached to the front legs, going till the top of the shelf and thus named as ‘ladder shelves’.

You will find many advantages of such an arrangement, the biggest being it space saving design. Moreover, you can position the ladder shelves in any corner of your house or you may even mount it against any wall. It is so designed that it occupies minimum of floor area, making it perfect for houses that have relatively smaller rooms. The design allows you to fit it in a tight corner or reception area. It may also be used in conjunction with work table or study table.

Unlike the conventional ladders, shelf ladder are provided with bigger flat treads, making their use very safe and quite comfortable, compared to normal extension ladders.

You get ladder shelves in many different designs:

Black Stone Corner Ladder Bookcase – It comprises of 5-tier shelves of varying sizes that facilitate display or storage of a variety of items.

Espresso Ladder Bookcase – Made from solid wood it is given a dark brown finish and comes with 5tier shelves. This is ideally suited for displaying all kinds of books. The Espresso Ladder Bookcase is quite wide, making it appropriate for displaying collection of toys and photographs.

Winsome Wood Bailey Shelving Unit – This bookcase is given a matte black finish. It is also made from solid wood frame and comes with multiple wood shelves. Its overall depth of 14 inches offers plenty of space for wide thick books as also other popular collections. Its design incorporates low rails at the rear end and sides, preventing books from falling down.

Madison Loop Ladder Bookcases – This comes with an antique white finish and really influenced by Scandinavian designs which provide a roomy ambiance to the place.