The child spends most of the day in his room, so it is very important to decorate the nursery with beautiful, high-quality and functional furniture so that childhood memories are only positive. Far from the last role in the interior of the room is the shelves. They can be used to house books, toys, board games, and many other useful things.
Shelves contribute to restoring order in the children's room and serve as interior decoration
This kind of furniture will instill in the baby a love of order, and form the right aesthetic taste. Shelves can be as a single element of decor, you can also combine several shelves in the form of a ladder or just arrange in the form of a rack.
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Recently, the use of light open shelves remains in the top of design trends. On the one hand, such a solution is able to visually relieve space and relieve the child of the pressure of massive cabinets, on the other hand, this design creates a lot of difficulties in maintaining cleanliness and order.
The shelves of the original suspension design look interesting
With open shelves, the interior of the room looks lighter and more filled with air. The appearance of furniture with closed and opaque doors will violate the harmony of the space of a bright and warm children's room.
Another indisputable plus of open shelves is the visibility and accessibility of everything that stands on them - this is what children love so much. Features of the perception of the world around the child to a greater extent depend on what he sees and can easily get it.
Drywall shelves in a little girl’s room
Children love everything bright and beautiful, and open shelves play the role of a bright accent or decorative decoration. Their contents endow the space with individuality and character. There are a lot of models of such furniture, and most importantly, you can easily make a unique designer shelf with your own hands from improvised means.
Incredibly practical built-in shelves, allowing rational use of every inch of the room
However, with all the advantages of open shelves, they are often called dust collectors. They actually accumulate dust, which is a kind of incentive to maintain cleanliness, and disciplines children and their parents. Otherwise, the inhabitants of the room will find a messy, uncomfortable interior and a constant sense of clutter.
If it is difficult for the owners to maintain order, then it is better to give preference to closed racks, chests of drawers and lockers. You can use combined options, where open shelves act as a stylish addition to conventional closed cabinets.
Closed shelves with doors protected against dust
Today, there is a huge selection of models that not only enrich the room functionally, but also act as an interesting accent. When choosing shelves in a nursery, special attention should be paid to the quality of the material from which they are made. The better the shelves, the longer they will last, but, accordingly, the cost of such furniture will be high.
Combined shelves combined with cabinets provide great opportunities for storing children's things
You should not save on children's furniture, since poor-quality materials can provoke the development of allergic reactions, and fragile ones can collapse or break, thereby leading to injury to the child.
The safest and most durable are shelves made of natural beech, oak or pine. Such furniture is not cheap, but it is justified by its durability, aesthetics and reliability.
Quite often, chipboard and MDF are used to make shelves. They are much cheaper than natural wood furniture, while environmentally friendly, and if they are reinforced with a metal frame, they will last long enough and will not deform under the weight of books or other items. Shelves can be supplemented with glass doors, but a special protective film must be applied to the glass. It can be colorless, transparent, matte or with patterns.
Modular shelves, consisting of separate blocks, are often made of sheet materials. Such modules can be placed in different ways at your discretion.
Also used are sconces or transformers with a flexible leg that allows you to change the direction of lighting. Children like these fixtures very much, they not only focus on the necessary elements of the interior, but also introduce a certain mystery into the atmosphere of the room.
Illuminated shelves look stylish and contemporary
Shelves in the nursery can be of various shapes and lengths, which in turn helps them to easily fit into any interior, while not overloading the space.
Perhaps the most important thing when choosing shelves is the mounts. They must be made of high-quality metal and securely fix the shelf on the wall at several points.
The shelves in the nursery can be attached to the wall at different heights from the floor, everything will depend on their functional purpose. High-quality hinged shelves are a great alternative to a bulky bookcase.
The height of the wall shelves depends on the height of the child
The model and color of the mounted models should be chosen, taking into account the gender and age of the child. For girls, models of light pastel colors, made in the form of a pyramid, ladder or sea wave, which will help create a warm and cozy atmosphere, are more suitable. For boys, it is preferable to use more vivid and non-standard options, for example, a shelf in the form of a skateboard or repeating the contours of a race car.
Shelves for boys are usually made in blue, white or gray.
Girls prefer lilac, raspberry, pink and other delicate shades.
You can connect the child himself to the choice so that he can show his personality and creativity.
Depending on the installation, the shelves are divided into wall and floor. Hinged shelves in the nursery, as a rule, serve as decorative elements. They are mounted on special brackets or decorative pipes directly to the ceiling.
Wall shelves do not clutter up space and save room space
Easy to rearrange the floor shelf
Depending on the design and construction, the shelves are divided into angular, straight and non-standard or combined designs, consisting of several sections, which can be supplemented with swing or sliding doors if necessary.
The use of corner shelves in the interior is perfect for small children's rooms. They will help to save free space, as well as smooth corners, and will make the interior of the room softer and more comfortable.
Corner models most successfully cope with the task of saving space
Corner shelves placed from floor to ceiling will help visually raise the height of the ceilings - this is an excellent option for rooms with low ceilings. Such models placed in a window opening look very attractive. You can complement them with a comfortable soft sofa for reading with a beautiful view from the window.
Built-in Corner Shelves - A Practical and Functional Solution
Straight shelves help make the room visually wider or longer. Such models are most often located above the bed or desk.
Straight red and white shelves as a bright accent in the boy’s bedroom
By connecting several shelves to each other with metal decorative tubes, you can design a chic floor shelf for books in a children's room.
For teens from chains and straight shelves, you can arrange a hinged composition in a marine style. You can also use a rope as a mount. Shelves will look very stylish and spectacular, especially in combination with decor elements in a marine style: shells, watches or sailboat models.
The simplest shelf in the marine style is a panel mounted on the cords
When selecting shelf models, three main factors are taken into account:
When choosing shelves in the nursery, it is important to consider the weight load on their surface and fasteners. Hinged shelves should not be overloaded with heavy objects - these models are designed for soft toys, a small number of books or decor elements. For heavier items or a large number of books and toys, it is better to use floor shelves or racks.
Overly bulky shelves and heavy objects cannot be hung over the child’s bed
Shelf for books in the nursery can be decorated in the form of a short flight of stairs, using not very long straight shelves connected by decorative elements.
For kids, a great option is a children's bookshelf in the form of a fairytale house with a closing window in the center, in which you can place the original backlight with adjustable lighting power.
Kids will be able to use this house on their own, folding their books and toys in them
For heavier things, an outdoor version of the house is used. Here you can use a larger number of shelves, even equip them with a small soft chair, be sure to think of additional lighting for a comfortable and proper reading of the baby. It is also a good option in the nursery for the floor bookshelf.
To store a large number of books, it is better to purchase a floor rack
It is important not to overload the room. So, for example, in a room with an area of 18 meters should not be more than 10 shelves. The most convenient for the children's room are the corner shelves. This is the most capacious and reliable option. Multi-colored models can be supplemented with vivid drawings.
The decoration of the shelves for the children's room is so diverse that you can find a suitable option for both boys and girls. Models are selected taking into account the age characteristics of the child, his wishes and individual preferences. Modern furniture manufacturers can also design shelves for children's rooms, given the stylistic direction of the design of the room.
Small shelves fixed in different places of the wall are suitable for placing light decorations or toys.
For example, the room of a young traveler can be supplemented with shelves in the form of fish or a sailboat. The room of a small romantic girl who loves animals will be well decorated with shelves in the form of tree branches with birds sitting on them. It will remain to complement this composition with lighting in the form of an LED strip, which will serve as a nightlight in the dark.
Such a shelf in the form of a whale is easy to make on your own from thick plywood or boards
The original shelf in the form of a tree branch with its "inhabitants"
You can arrange a game corner from many shelves imitating the branches of a mighty tree, which will house your favorite toys. As a child grows up, toys on a shelf in the form of a tree in a nursery can be replaced with your favorite books and decor elements.
Shelves in the nursery can be easily and inexpensively done literally in one evening with your own hands, having come up with an exclusive design that will appeal to the baby and will fit perfectly into the interior. For creative parents on the Internet there are master classes on making homemade shelves.
So, for example, you can decorate the wall of a children's room with independently made shelves in the form of clouds and a sheep. This composition is perfectly complemented by lighting in the form of LED strip.
Simple but very beautiful cloud-shaped shelves
To maximize the space of a small room, it is worth using a corner space. Here you can build shelves for books and toys using triangles or quarters of a circle from chipboard or MDF and a pair of brackets. Such shelves are complemented by halogen lamps, which allows them to be distinguished in the interior of the room, especially in the dark.
Do it yourself with your own hands is the easiest way to make straight shelves from sheet material.
Children themselves can become wonderful designers in their room, and modern furniture manufacturing technologies will help craftsmen to realize the most daring and unusual solutions.
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