Bookcases With Sliding Glass Doors

96 Ideas by Chloe Hughes

The bookcase with a sliding door is an attractive way to accent an office or study, especially if that sliding door is glass. Sliding glass bookcases allow you to see all of your books without worrying about dust or contaminants ruining them. It is also a great feature if you have curious pets.

Glass covered bookshelves

Love it...the display cabinet and it's contents, the paddles, the picture on top the cabinet...

Midnight Rose Bookcase Console Masterpiece - 3043250

This is a very elegant and extremely impressive cabinet for books, which is obscured with the glass door. Cabinet ideally suited as a practical piece of equipment, but also as a decorative element. It will fit in many different places.

Ameriwood cabinets 2

A piece of furniture that has got a functional character in the house. It is a bookcase with durable wooden frame in a white color. It features sliding glass doors and its white color looks very nice in any decor.

Buyers' Picks Marshall Bookcase

Buyers' Picks Marshall Bookcase

Crafted of sturdy Elm wood and covered in an oak finish; this gorgeous bookcase is functional and decorative. The front is equipped with 2 sliding doors with clear glass panels, while the inside features 2 adjustable, wood shelves.

Atlantic 94835721 Glass Door Cab Espresso

Capacious multimedia cabinet in espresso brown finish, with two-way sliding doors featuring square tempered glass panels. Allows for smart organization of your media collection. Perfect both for modern and traditional living spaces.

Bristol Court Bookcase

Sliding glass bookcase 14

Discover this intresting piece of sliding glass bookcase. To create this simply but still unique piece - was used a walnut wood, in very dark finish. The bookcase is divided into 12 equal parts on the glass-wooden front.

Sliding glass bookcase

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Enclosed bookcase 1

This bookcase will be more than enough when you want to organize your books and keep them at perfect display at all times. It sports the sliding doors of the design and a stunning, light finish of the wood.

Doors that look like bookshelves

Natural wood bookshelf with glass doors, five shelves and two drawers at bottom. Seems usable in kitchen, too - maybe as a floor standing cabinet for jars and dinnerware? Classic design should be particularly easy to match.

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Elm wood bookcase with 2 sliding doors and paneled glass facings. Product: BookcaseConstruction Material: Elm w...

Sliding glass bookcase

wonderful bookcase with sliding glass doors

Riverside furniture bristol court 24537 double sliding

Riverside Furniture Bristol Court 24537 Double Sliding ...

Vintage 4 tier bookcase with sliding glass doors

Vintage 4-Tier Bookcase with Sliding Glass Doors

Huge tall solid english oak victorian library sliding 5

Huge Tall Solid English Oak Victorian Library Sliding ...

Glass display cabinet bookshelf w sliding glass doors

Glass Display Cabinet Bookshelf w/ Sliding Glass Doors ...

Bookcases With Sliding Glass Doors

Buying Guide

If your sliding glass bookcase features fairly wide glass panels or a mainly glass-based design, it’s worth investing in tempered glass: this is the strongest type of glass used in furniture, so you won’t have to worry too much about accidental breakages.

However, if the glass panels are smaller and mainly decorative, most types of glass will do, although it’s always safer to go for thicker models.

For a sliding glass bookcase, you’re going to want a dense hardwood to provide structure for your heavy books (and that heavy glass). We’d recommend an oak or a maple for this reason; or, if you’re looking for a more cost-efficient, smaller bookcase, select a birch or a walnut.

You can paint any of these to match the colors you want in your home, or stain them darker or lighter as you wish.