10 Original Ideas For Storing All Your Books

Compulsive readers buy and pile up books, already read or overdue, and are often faced with the same problem: where to store all these works? If your library is full and you don’t know what to do with all your books but don’t want to get rid of them, use them as decorative objects! With these 10 original ideas, your books will have a special place in your home.

Storing an excess of books is never easy. These are sometimes bulky objects, that collect dust, and we tend to accumulate them until we no longer know where to put them. But with a little originality, it is easy to use them as decorative objects, which will offer a unique style to your interior.
Here are 10 suggestions to give your books a second life. This will allow you to continue to buy them without reservation and scruples!

1. Turn your books into furniture

A board, some old books and you have a brand new, particularly original table. Books can be a sturdy support, capable of supporting weight and providing necessary stability to your living room coffee table or bedside table. Use items that you have completed, as they will be difficult to recover once transformed into furniture.

2. Hangers and books, for an explosive wall decoration

Attach hangers to the wall, and place an open book on the bottom of each hanger, for an innovative decoration. A lovely way to display the covers of your favorite books, such as paintings.

3. Exhibit them by creating a scene

On a table, on a chest of drawers, or in a corner of your office, you can choose your favorite books and place them nonchalantly, surrounded by decorative objects in keeping with the theme or cover of the book. A book evoking the sea will be surrounded by models of boats, bottles of sand, or fishing nets, a book about superheroes will find its place between some pretty figurines. Be creative!

4. Play with cover colors

You can store your books in a bookcase or on a shelf, and rely on the colors of the spine to perfect your interior decoration. A warm corner with red and yellow, an exotic atmosphere with a palette of blues, to bring a colorful touch to your home.

5. Surround your windows with your most beautiful works

By installing a few wooden planks around your windows, you will provide a special place for your favorite works. They will thus surround these openings to the outside world, as a metaphor for what they are: an invitation to escape.

6. The stack of books, is a fun idea

If you don’t mind a little chaos in your home, why not just pile the books on the floor? Form a straight column or let it take a less linear shape, by stacking works of varying sizes, for a very convincing result. The impression of instability that emerges gives a bohemian style to an interior.

7. Build a dividing wall out of books

Perfect for small spaces, or to create a reading corner in your toddler’s room, the wall partition made up of books allows you to separate a room into several zones. All you need is a standing shelf and many books (which you probably have available!) to build a wall without having to partition.

8. Books in the toilet

Many people see the toilet as a reading refuge, so you might as well have something on hand to keep you busy. The books can be placed in a recess in the room, on a shelf above the toilet, or in a small basket on the floor. Be careful, you risk spending more time than necessary in your toilet.

9. Books as plant support

A few books or magazines piled up on a window sill or a piece of furniture in your entryway, a pretty green plant, and you combine business with pleasure by having aupport for your plant while reusing books including you didn’t know what to do. It also works with a pretty lamp!

10. Fill even the smallest space with your favorite books

In all homes, some corners seem useless, niches to fill that often remain empty: a space under the staircase, within a wall, above the kitchen furniture… So many places that can accommodate your books and which will give a very cozy, even literary, appearance to your accommodation.