What Shelves Work Best for You?

Shelves are critical in helping you organize and manage your home. These stable surfaces support books, knick-knacks, tools, and thousands of other options. You can make custom creations that suit your specific needs even more than the need for this furniture in your household. You can navigate around corners, hide shelves in cabinets, and even suspend them from the ceiling.

Best Types of Shelves in a Modern Home

Custom shelves perform several essential jobs in the household. These shelving types change based on their requirements, like workload and function. Some of these include:

• Fixed-Bracket Shelving – Strong and durable, fixed-bracket units show the supporting brackets and can support a hefty weight.
• Floating Shelves – Contractors install these shelves with no visible brackets.
• Built-In Shelving – Inset shelving is trendy in the modern home and adds value to spaces like the living room, bedroom, and kitchen. These shelves are flush with the wall level, which can also increase available square footage.
• Pull-Out Shelving – Hidden, pull-out cabinetry with shelving is a job for an experienced trim carpenter. These units match the wood or cabinet material and can support heavy weights as a makeshift hidden pantry.
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Best Materials for Shelves

Shelving can come in all different types, including plastic and fabric options. While metal shelving is likely among the most long-term solutions, it is rarely the most attractive choice. Wood options are a category unto themselves, with multiple selections under this heading that get chosen based on appearance, economic impact, and cost-effectiveness. Nevertheless, wood shelving overall is the most popular choice in materials.

The Right Professional for Your Shelving Needs

Professional trim carpenters like our team can work with your specific project, translating blueprints and schematics to bring an idea to life. Contractors in this niche are among the last to complete this intricate framing and detail work as they put the final touches on a room before painting. With the knowledge of your shelves’ look, location, and materials needed, the last step is contacting experienced installers.

Shelves are vital to every household for organizing and storing your valued belongings. When you want a completely customized look and design for these shelves or to ensure your materials get installed correctly, contact our KCB Custom team. We are the trim carpentry specialists to help.