Accessorizing Your Walls - Bookshelves

House Beautiful Photo Robert Trachtenberg

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend. It was warm and sunny here in Minnesota (in the 30's) and I loved it.

Bookshelves can be a great way to fill a blank wall, and, depending on your budget, they don't need to be expensive. (First let me get off track a little by noticing the layered rugs in the first photo and the way that they've hung the mirror on the front of the bookshelves. I like...)

See the large blank wall in the before photo of this room below?

BEFORE

In the after photo you can see that they've filled the wall with IKEA bookcases. Painting the backs out in a contrasting color really makes a dramatic statement, and they've decided to hang some artwork on the front of the shelves as well, which again, I love!

AFTER

Canadian House and Home Photo Angus Fergusson/Courtesy of HGTVs Style Dept.

Another colorful, slightly different version of the same idea.

Southern Living via myhomeideas.com Photo Van Chaplin

These aren't bookshelves obviously, but I thought the way they used this plate rack to display photos was interesting.

Southern Living Photo Charles Walton IV

BHG.com's Hardworking Storage Solutions in Charming Displays shows you some different bookshelf ideas...

These bookshelves help make this a unique and interesting staircase...

Coastal Living via myhomesideas.com Photo Roger Davies

You may not want to fill your entire wall with these, but I love Martha's idea for making bookshelves out of benches...

marthastewart.com

Do you have a blank wall where you could use a bookshelf?