Corner Shelves for Living Room
Buy the best corner shelves for living room selected and recommended by interior designers. By Caroline Patterson.
Living rooms can quickly become cluttered with remotes, books, toys, and multimedia items, creating a chaotic living environment. One of the best ways to reduce clutter is to install a shelving unit. Corner shelves provide increased storage capacity and organization for your home, especially when floor space is limited. They can also improve the décor, enhancing the style and atmosphere of your home.
Corner Shelves for Living Room
Buying Guide
Caroline Patterson
Interior Design Expert
Caroline is a young, New York-based interior designer and home decor writer, obsessed with textiles and designer furniture. Backed with rigorous training from a prestigious design school, as well as a profound understanding of material quality and fabric care, she offers spot-on advice on how to furnish your place with reliable, functional, and aesthetically pleasing pieces.
Corner shelves for your living room come in all sorts of sizes, heights, shapes, and styles. One of the most common is the triangular shelf set that can fit in that odd bit of space that doesn’t seem to work with anything else. A corner shelf can be used for books or magazines but is more commonly used to hold decorative knick-knacks.
The most common types of corner shelves for the living room include open units, hutches, mounted shelves, and solid backed pieces. Cabinets with lighting are increasingly popular too.
The Open Shelf Corner Unit
A simple shelf set with triangular shelves held up by metal wall brackets is easy to install and modestly does not draw attention to itself. It is a good place to keep plants, figurines or even books on display racks. Reasonably sturdy, it can manage a faux marble bust or two, or even act as the keeper for your favorite reference books. If you’ve been wondering where to put that big dictionary, this might be the place.
The Corner Hutch
A corner hutch is the perfect place to keep those odd bits of this and that needed for your daily life. If you don’t have a desk, it can double as the place to keep bills, letters, stamps and writing material. Alternatively, it can serve as an out of site repository for a purse, wallet, keys and similar items that you want to have close at hand, but don’t want to place right by your front door.
Solid Backed Corner Shelf
A stand-alone corner shelf with a solid back allows users the opportunity to rearrange the furniture, as desired. The ability to free stand also means that you don’t have to worry about accidentally drilling or nailing into electrical wiring, something that is always a concern when hanging pictures or securing shelving. It also means that it will be easy to pack up if you decide to move. No decisions about what to do about built-ins or add-ons that have been secured to a wall.
Wall-Mounted Corner Shelves
Wall-mounted alternating corner shelves can add interest to your living room. Select a darker color or a contrasting color that will stand out against the paint or paper on the wall for a visual effect that will pop! Add figurines, a small lamp, or plants as part of the visual effect.
Lighted Corner Shelving Unit
Create a cozy appearance by backlighting your favorite tableware set, or even add grow-lights and plants. The warm lighting from the cabinet makes an excellent night light, allowing you to make your way through your house without running the main lights. The soft lights are a solution for families with children or elderly who might need to make their way to the kitchen or facilities. Yet they don’t scream “night light” like those other little plug-in solutions and are unlikely to be turned off accidentally.
Frame Corner Solution
Some floors are unstable, and a free-standing corner unit might be a hazard for young children or pets. The A-Frame unit relies on the stability inherent in a pyramid, making it a sturdier solution than a unit that relies on three vertical supports or two vertical back walls.