Electric Fireplaces With Bookshelves

231 Ideas by Tara Gosselin

Bring some class to your bland interior with an electric fireplace with bookshelves. Well constructed over all, with an easy to use electric fireplace, these beautiful additions will give your home a sense of elegance. And electric fireplaces are safe and smokeless, so these can go room you wish to spruce up. Available with many options in woods and shelving, you will find one you love. Guaranteed.

Custom electric fireplace

If you want to have much more functional surrounding of your electric fireplace, those bookshelves are here to help you with that. Beautifully designed case is perfectly combined with open storage space, you can accommodate as you please.

Fireplace with shelves

Thanks to this electric fireplace with 2 built-in bookshelves, you can easily complement your home decor. Each bookcase features thick construction, and 4 open cubic compartments with a fixed lighting system.

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Fireplace with bookcase surround

Built your wall with the fireplace in it to utmost perfection with some help from this built-in bookshelves set. It will provide you with more space than needed to accomodate your collection and will keep your interior looking vintage and charming.

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Salt Lake City

This beautiful set of living room furniture is a combination of charming fireplace, space for TV and numerous bookshelves and cabinets. The whole of the classic contemporary design is stylish and very attractive.

Built in bookshelves fireplace

This electric fireplace with bookshelves on the side will create a cosy ambiance, alluring from the first moments. White panelled finish and lots of shelves for display shall attract all, who like traditional decors.

Fireplace wall unit

Thanks to this wall unit you can surround your electric fireplace with your favorite decorations and precious collectibles. The whole unit is crafted of wood and bathed in white, offering 2 two-door cabinets with shelves, and multiple open compartments.

Electric Fireplaces With Bookshelves

Buying Guide

Electric fireplaces are fast replacing conventional ones. And why not. An electric fireplace adds the missing warmth and glow to your living room, at a fraction of the operating and maintenance cost of a real fireplace.

There’s no smoke, no ash, no soot to bother about. No gas, no fumes either. All you see is the soothing glow of an LED light that mimics a real flame. To make it even better, it warms your room as well. You can even add it to an existing real fireplace. It resembles a burning log and emits a continual warm glow.

If you are considering adding one of these amazing fixtures to your living room, then why not pair it with a wonderful bookshelf? A fireplace mantle bookshelf is a great focal point. The shelving gives you the perfect platform to flaunt your tchotchkes and accent pieces. And of course, your books.

Here are a few important things to consider when you go shopping for one of these.

One of the advantages of an electric fireplace is that you can retrofit it into the room without making expensive remodeling. There are both freestanding as well as wall-mounted varieties.

The freestanding ones are a breeze to install. You can just place it flush against the wall and plug it into the nearest electrical outlet. The caveat is that you wouldn’t be able to move it once you install the bookshelf around it. So, narrow down on a location before you make that installation.

Many electric fireplaces have an integrated top shelf that can be used as a TV stand. Always check the maximum weight bearing capacity before you place your TV on it.

Measure the dimensions of the space that surround the fireplace. Locate your wall studs using a stud finder if you plan to wall mount the book shelf. Now it’s time to narrow down on a design and there are tons of options to select from.

Standard bookshelves feature fixed or adjustable shelves with a closed frame on the back. Or it can be an array of floating shelves mounted on the wall.

Shelves made of solid wood or MDF are durable and will blend in with your existing décor. If you wish to create a more contemporary design, then you can opt for an étagère which has glass shelves instead.

By the way, if you get bored with your furniture layout very often, you can buy a freestanding bookshelf on wheels, just like the fireplace. Just move it to a different room or a different wall once it starts looking like an eyesore.

Electric fireplaces are available both with or without heating elements. The latter is purely an aesthetic addition. The one that heats the room uses either an infrared quartz heat element or a forced fan to blow heat.

  • Infrared quartz is the more efficient of the two and are suited for large rooms that are up to 1000 square feet.
  • Forced fan models work best for rooms that are up to 400 square feet at best.