Building and Installing Custom Shelves for Your Home

Custom Shelving can add character to any room, regardless of how new the room. Not only can built-in shelves increase your storage space, but it can also create depth, and character that comes from historic, turn of the century homes. Custom built in shelves make any room inviting. Built in shelves can be customized with matching crown molding and adjustable shelves. They come with tons of storage space, and are an attractive addition to any room in your home.

There are many tools that you can use to create these custom built in shelves to any room; hammers and nails, or a nail gun, screwdrivers and screws, circular saws, a measuring tape, a level and wood glue. You will also require, varying lengths of plywood at least one inch thick for the shelves.

Built in shelves depth vary from twelve to eighteen inches, opting for eighteen inches is a large consideration because it could take more than a foot from the floor space of the room.

To create adjustable shelves to the built in shelf system consider building in brackets at different intervals throughout the shelving unit, and have the shelves able to move around at varying levels to accommodate changing collections.

Built in bookshelves look fantastic on the side of a fireplace, or on an entire wall in the library, dining room or entryway - even in the bedroom.

The first step to building custom built-in shelves is to determine the size of the shelves, the depth, width, and the height. Keep in mind that most floor to ceiling shelving units span from floor to ceiling.