Must I have built in units in my chimney alcoves???
By the way my living room is in F&b Joas White, and ceiling Wimborne white.. Any ideas for colours for shelving units for the alcoves? I am leaning towards Wimborne white.


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Fine Finish Furniture net
il y a 6 ansYou can just hung TV on adjustable bracket that will allow you to pull tv out from alcove and underneath put a unit for other items.
Still, the best way is to make fully fitted, nicely painted furniture
Good luckEmpatika Bespoke Fitted Furniture
il y a 6 ansDernière modification :il y a 6 ansIf you do decide to spend thousands, do it with me! ;) https://www.empatika.uk/
So my sensible advice is, in an office those shelves are ok. But in the living room were the look is more important, if you don't want to spend loads, just go for fitted floating shelves that look slick, clean, modern and then as you say put some free standing furniture below, at least that way you can change them in the future easily if you want to and it is so much cheaper to buy ready made freestanding units.
Have a look how beautiful floating shelves can look: https://www.empatika.uk/shelving-gallery#foobox-1/29/Contemporary_floating_shelving_London.jpg
Best of luck
Tristan
minnie101
il y a 6 ansHi. Silly question but do you actually need shelves? Alcoves can look really good with matching consoles or cabinets etc with lamps etc and art hung on the ŵall, or lose the symmetry and add a chair etc to one. If you need shelves then I'd definitely go for floating ones, you can also look at ones that can be cut down to size. I'd paint the shelves in the ŵall colour to blend them in
KXD
Auteur d'origineil y a 6 ansThank you OnePlan and Fine Finish Joinery Ltd for your responses. Minnie101 matching consoles, art and lamps sounds very good and perhaps a place for the TV. Wondering whether placing shelving on one side alone would make the room look lopsided : -??? I will need to look through Houzz for some ideas... Many thanks all!
Ludo Gallagher
il y a 6 ansWe got fitted shelves both sides just the top of the alcoves for about 200. It's not expensive if you get the right person.
KXD a remercié Ludo Gallagherlauramcg2
il y a 6 ansI would be with mini101 & think something other than shelving as rooms focus would look less cluttered & more relaxing .....keep shelving behind main focus or sitting area!KXD a remercié lauramcg2Sandy Slade
il y a 6 ansPlease post a picture when you have done it though even if it takes a while to do . Thanks
KXD a remercié Sandy Sladelindalovie55
il y a 6 ansbig fan of glass either shelving or console tables. finish with large coloured glass vases etc
KXD a remercié lindalovie55alyper
il y a 6 ansWouldn't go for built in shelves, instead built in cupboards up to say hip height in which all uninteresting things stored away. Any competent carpenter could make these out of MDF and then painted - Wimbirne White? On top of cupboards display your favourite things, leaving walls clear. Makes the room feel so much larger. One stunning picture above fire, or mirror. Tada!! O
alyper
il y a 6 ansMeant to add: the cost should definitely not be thousands more like a few hundred (done it myself recently, so I know!), and you would have something to be proud of, rather than 'almost fits'. Well worth it in the long run.
AMB
il y a 6 ansif you want wall to wall alcove shelves on the cheap you can make floating shelves out of a cheap internal flush door. (£23 from B&Q) I wanted 8 white wooden floating shelves for my alcoves and the quotes I got were between £400-800! We did it ourselves for about £100.KXD
Auteur d'origineil y a 6 ansWow Ambirchal1985...Fantastic idea! Did you make them into floating shelves? You did not make a how-to dvd as well did you? :-))KXD
Auteur d'origineil y a 6 ansOh just reread and note that you did say you made floating shelves....well done!silyab53
il y a 6 ansDernière modification :il y a 6 ansSo lucky to have the original floor to ceiling alcove cupboard in my Victorian house and even luckier to have rescued the same from next door when they stripped out all the original 'features' to 'modernise'!!!!! Put lower half in my small sitting room and taller half in my bedroom, which houses all of my shoes - just!
What about different size floating shelves (IKEA are very cheap, white and easy to put up and come in a range of sizes) but randomly placed, or an old wooden ladder for your books - go mad and paint it to stand out. The shelves you have which are a bit small are a perfect opportunity for some funky bookends to keep everything in place.
Looking forward to snaps.
The London Craftsman
il y a 6 ansHow about using a material such as Birch ply and doubled up to make chunky shelves.
Or even something completely different and unusual such as Osb board/sterling board.
This would certainly make a feature and a talking point of your alcoves at a very low cost, especially if Osb board is used.
I have used it many times to make one off display units and also used it to clad a large wall and make it a large feature wall.
I think it's a very under rated material and looks amazing with a few coats of clear varnish.alyper
il y a 6 ansGood work Kwansie. The kids are right .- yellow best! - and perhaps you could use that for a rug too?
KXD a remercié alyper- KXD a remercié lindalovie55
Adam Gibbons
il y a 6 ansFor me there is nothing that compares to traditional fitted furniture. It makes the most of a space which is other wise hard to utilize, and adds detail to your home.
For me contrasting light and dark colours for walls and furniture looks good. Mix it up with dark wood work and light walls!
The Bespoke Interiors
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nicola_cox6
il y a 3 ansI currently have about 5 large boxes of books in my house and 5 “unused” alcoves so alcove shelving seems an obvious solution to me! What I’m struggling to decide is 1) How far recessed from the alcove the shelves would look best (2cm or more in an alcove that is 30cm deep?), 2) how chunky/thick (top to bottom) the shelves should be and 3) whether to pack the shelves in eg for novels without leaving much space between shelves or make a taller space on the bottom shelf for photos etc?
Any ideas please?Fine Finish Furniture net
il y a 3 ansHi Nicola
Shelves can be flush with wall but it’s a nice detail to keep them around 2cm deeper
Thickness could be from 3.5cm to around 5cm but no more
This shelves normally span over 80cm so make sure you have support in the middle (on floating shelves would be hidden on the wall, but if you are planning to use battens all around underneath then it’s fine)sam irwin
il y a 3 ansI’ve attached a few ideas for your alcoves. I think it depends on the style you are going for in this room. My friend has the traditional cabinets in her living room as the rest of her furniture is quite traditional.nicola_cox6
il y a 3 ansThank you for these comments and photos. I particularly like the low cabinets underneath with the varnished wood tops which are a fresh and modern twist to the Victorian alcove cupboards. My alcoves are wide (160cm or so) so I’m interested that you think they shouldn’t be more than 5cm thick even then. I will have a go installing some shelves in my TV (less formal room) and review how they will look for my living room after the mantelpiece is installed.
Sandy Slade