Source for made in USA solid wood bookshelves?
Kendrah
4 years ago
I was going to have custom made bookshelves from the people who did our custom kitchen cabinets but they are slammed with work and I don't want to wait any longer.
Does anyone have a good source for a company that makes bookshelves made in the USA from solid wood? I prefer sustainable forestry practices and good carpentry techniques. I know I can buy cheaper cases from chain stores but I would rather support and independent company.
I want three cases along the wall with the mirror. (I'm getting ride of the table and current bookcase.) They will be about the height of a counter top. Below are inspiration pics.
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Comments (18)I do things very much like you do in your way of dealing with books, Sunny43. I, too, love books, and have many "types" like you do, plus I re-read the favorites, and refer to books all the time as well. I also have a bookcase in my bedroom, plus a large one that I bought from a bookstore in the garage, and three 84" high bookcases I refinished in the livingroom. I, too, would love to have floor to ceiling bookshelves! I would love to have a whole library room just like that. I am thinking of revamping the one in my room, as I don't regularly read those, instead maybe I can put the current reading material on there, that is usually in a pile by my bed, do you think that would work for clearing away the pile by the bed? Then put the books that are now there on the other bookshelves, or in the garage. Speaking of the garage books, do yours get to smelling mildewy or moldy, or musty? Or does it depend on what kind of year round weather you have? When you say you have a built in bookcase in your livingroom, is it built into, attached to, the walls? The reason I ask is because I don't understand something--when I called around for a craftsman to "build in" a bookcase in my house, they all said they would make them on site (at their workshop) and then bring them in. To set in. To me, that's "free standing," as I thought "built-in" meant attached to the wall, thus when you move, you don't take it with you, as it's "built in?" Don't people do that anymore? Oh and I had asked for three, with top shelves and a little area that juts out a bit from the width of the shelves, so you could rest a book or a plant there, then underneath that, two doors with a shelf behind the doors. That was probably 3, 4 years ago and the one man said that would be $6,000 dollars, so I ordered three unfinished ones from the internet and re-finished them myself. Now I am going to order from the same people what they call a "cubby," to put boxes of video tapes and DVD's on. This way, I can set it in a 14" inch area next to the bookcases, and paint it to match! I am happy about that, as it will blend in well. I have a question for you all about that: It is a tall tower with I think six shelves, room enough to put two photo boxes on top of each other per shelf, (you can put 10 VHS tapes in those). You can get understated nice looking ones, (I have some in catalogs) but will that look too much like an office? This furniture website also offers baskets with liners, which probably would look nicer in the livingroom, but they are dust catchers and I would like to have lids, tops, on the containers as well. Also no see-through. Any suggestions? Thank you!...See MoreBuilt in book shelves toll bros
Comments (5)I agree with the posters who suggest you price out the bookselves with out outside source. I live in a Hovnanian Townhouse we bought new 3 years ago. We only spent 4K at their design center. We took mostly standards and changed them quickly after settlement, even the kitchen. For the same amount of money we would have spent with the builder, we did more. It has made our house unique umongst the rest of the cookie cutters. An example is the builder wanted 12K for HW floors on the 1st floor. We did our MBR, GBR and 1st floor including powder room for 9K....See MoreBuilt in room divider bookshelves/storage?
Comments (31)Hey it worked. That's a good start. Thanks aok, Didn't address you before because I've written a reply about a half-dozen times to have it get lost in cyber space. Glare is a concern especially with no window treatments but there are ways alleviate that. Just rotating the couch will cut down on it a bit as much of the glare will come from the floor when the sun isn't hitting it directly. I would usually use some type of a scrim/screen when people want privacy/shade but don't want curtains/ blinds etc. Although I didn't show it I did guess at laying out the room as you also need to rearrange the furniture if you block off that access-way too. I rotated the coffee table and centered it on the fireplace put the two mission chairs next to the new unit and the red one off center of the edge of the table. The couch face the TV with the FP on the right and the buffet can go behind the couch with a scrim separating the two if it is needed. They are inexpensive to build and add "wall space" when needed. If you want to post the dimension from the column to the center of the FP and to the window wall along with an indication north and closest major city I can do a sun study to see how we can prevent the glare. Thanks jey...See MoreBookshelves. HELP! please.
Comments (11)If I'm getting the picture right after these other posts, these are to be shelves laid on metal brackets with no sides. Just shelves on the wall. If this is the case, for 80", you would use 3 "runs" of brackets. The first one would be at 16" from the end of the shelf, the second at 48" the third at 64". This will allow you to have spans LESS than the 36" we originally suggested. Every other stud will place each "run" 32" apart, leaving a 16" overhang at each end of the shelves. The only negative to this would be the "centering" of the shelves on the space, as you would have to place the "runs" where the studs exist. For this, a 1" shelf will be fine, whether solid stock or plywood stripped on the edges. A ready made shelf,1" thick, can be made from COMMON STEPTREAD that can be bought at almost any lumber supply. This is 1" thick with one nice rounded edge. This is typically 12" wide so may have to be ripped to a narrower width. Commonly comes in pine but is available in other types also. I would reccomend this highly. Hope this makes sense and helps........See Morerwiegand
4 years agoKendrah
4 years agojaniceme
4 years agoKendrah
4 years agoThanks for your questions Sammy. Glad you have some experience in this arena. I like to support craftspeople in the USA, protect forests, and I have reactions to adhesives and off-gassing after going through chemo, so try to avoid composite or engineered. All of the rest of our furniture is antique and solid wood and I just like the heft and feel.
The window corner is problematic as you noted, and there is a heat register in the corner behind the spindle chair near the window.
The wall is 130" long. I'm thinking of having made three pieces that will be pushed together and centered on the wall totaling 106", leaving 12" on either side. It won't have a built in look necessarily but I think I am ok with that. It would also enable us to reuse the bookcases in different locations when we move into a condo in NYC sometime in the next 8 years.
I saw this pic as inspiration for three separate units pushed together. This one is a total of 108". (It is way too ornate for my tastes.)
Our floors are crooked - 165 year old house. So I'm concerned that with three together they will look wonky or uneven. What are your thoughts? Any other ideas on how to deal with the window corner?
Sammy
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