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Decorating with White Wall Shelves

Sometimes it is hard to come up with ideas to decorate the walls in our home. It would be easy to hang a photo or print on every wall, but it would be nice to have a little variety in our choice of wall decor. For a simple and clean look, why not hang up a few white wall shelves with some of your favorite photos or vases, etc? There are some interesting ways to hang shelves, or groups of shelves that go beyond the basic horizontal shelf hung in the middle of a large space. Create a unique shelving display and make it as simple or as complicated as you like.

One of the great things about shelves is that you are making use of virtually unused space and you are creating a new surface out of thin air to display some of your favorite objects. This may free up some other surfaces and contribute to more of a spacious, uncluttered look.

So why use white shelving? Well, it may not fit into every room’s decor, but white typically goes with any other colors and creates a calm, clean, organized look in any room that you use it. White tends to brighten up a room and white wall shelves can tie in with other white objects that are already in the room. White can be a contemporary look, or fit in nicely with country or traditional decor.

White wall shelves come in many different shapes and styles. You will find wall shelves made of wood, composite wood, metal and man made materials such as melamine. It is a good idea to plan what type of items will be displayed on the shelf so that you can choose the size and type of support that will be required. White wood wall shelves will typically have support brackets that mount to the wall underneath the shelf or in the case of the floating shelf, inside the shelf itself. The amount of weight that the shelf can support should be noted on the packaging or the online description of the product. When hanging your white wall shelf, you will want to find wall studs to screw into, or else use anchor screws for extra support.

Depending upon the purpose of your shelf, you could get white floating wall shelves for a nice decorative display, or even a larger wall unit that contains two or three shelves. Multiple shelves work well in an area in which you need more practical storage, such as a child’s room or a bathroom. White wall shelving is perfect for either kid’s rooms or the bathroom where they will brighten and organize these rooms that typically need a lot of storage space.

Pick up some white wall shelves today and get decks the walls with a few of your favorite things.