Wall-Mounted Bookshelves

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Wall-mounted shelves can be great space-savers, but many of them aren't designed to hold heavier objects like books and media collections. In case you're on the hunt for the perfect wall-mounted shelf, we've rounded up a few options designed specifically for books...

FIRST ROW
• 1 String Pocket by Nisse Strinning ($$)
• 2 String Cell by Peter Cohen ($$$)
• 3 Elfa Wall-Mounted Shelving from Anna's Old-and-New Newburgh Victorian ($$)
• 4 Blu Dot Wonder Wall Shelf ($$)
• 5 Umbra Conceal Shelf from Emily and Craig's Logan Square Rehab ($)

SECOND ROW
• 6 Shelving from Atlas Industries ($$$)
• 7 Vitsoe Shelves ($$$)
• 8 Pietro Arosio Wallbox Bookcase ($$$)
• 9 Graduate Shelving from Orange Skin ($$$)
• 10 Trippo Shelves by Ulla Christiansson ($$$)

OTHER HELPFUL LINKS
• How to Build Wall-Mounted Bookshelves for Less Than $100 from Instructables
• Best Wall-Mount Office Solutions from Apartment Therapy

Comments (8)

Anyone know where the lamp is from in #5?

posted by Jose A on May 29th 2009 at 12:33am
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Wish those were aviable in europe for a budget price :´(

posted by handz on May 29th 2009 at 4:29am
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handz... I've bought several String shelving units on Ebay in Europe for very low prices (e.g 3 shelves 2 side pieces €30). There are always some on offer, not always the originals though, but many others look great too.

posted by AnastasiaBeaverhausen on May 29th 2009 at 6:03am
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I love my Rakks (tension-mounted, floor-to-ceiling) bookshelves! The Shelf Shop sells them in nyc. Not wall-mounted, but even better....

posted by mtl1212 on May 29th 2009 at 8:51am
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Anastasia - did you mean ebay.com, and they shipped to Europe? Or you used a European ebay page? Which one?

posted by Emika on May 29th 2009 at 10:07am
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I used the atlas shelving for my retail store. They are beautiful! see some pics here:

http://blog.nest-living.com/post/96940013

posted by thetroll on May 29th 2009 at 12:08pm
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Found them on the German page, Ebay.de, but that also shows offers in Austria, Switzerland etc. Just looked now and there are about 20 on offer, they usually ship all over Europe. Search for String regal (German for shelf). Happy hunting!

posted by AnastasiaBeaverhausen on May 29th 2009 at 5:59pm
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... but the Elfa shelves are just fancy standard-and-bracket shelving, which are available a lot cheaper at almost any hardware or home improvement store.

posted by Miranda on June 2nd 2009 at 4:38am
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