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French Country Bookcases

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French country bookcases offer an eclectic range of characteristics that you can fit with most designs. For example, some styles provide straight, clean lines and minimal design features. Or you can choose pieces with intricate design elements, such as pilasters, scrollwork, engraved lines, cabriole feet, a distressed paint finish, and curved or arched headers. 

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Updated 12/05/2022
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Large Rustic Round Top

Large Rustic Round Top

One Allium Way®

For character and plenty of storage, go with a tall, wide french country bookcase with intricately carved details. This piece has a bonnet top that forms a center crest above recessed paneled sides and Corinthian carved fluted pilasters in a glazed, distressed, cracked finish.

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French country bookcases are popular because they have intricate design details in various styles. For example, you can choose tall or short cabinets, wide or thin. And you can enjoy details like intricate carvings and moldings, distressed and cracked paint finishes, and curved or arched lines. 

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Ornate Open and Closed Storage

Ornate Open and Closed Storage

Brilliant Life

A combined french style bookshelf can offer open storage in the form of shelves and closed private storage from doors and drawers. This antique white french style bookcase with raised floral scroll molding sits on cabriole legs for sophisticated gracefulness. 

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Three Column Massive Case

Three Column Massive Case

One Allium Way®

This elegant french provincial bookcase has a curving concave and convex front. The trendy gray mahogany finish is distressed and glazed for a worn look. Six shelves per row provide lots of storage with a built-in light to illuminate items.

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Tall Slim Corner Country Shelf

Tall Slim Corner Country Shelf

One Allium Way®

Use an alabaster corner cabinet in a traditional style with a vintage distressed paint job to display items without taking up all your space. Six tiers of shelves lit by an LED bulb framed by a curved border add extra charm. 

$739.99 $915

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Elevated Slender Country Vintage Bookcase

Elevated Slender Country Vintage Bookcase

Kelly Clarkson Home

Smaller French Country bookcases are versatile pieces used for looks and storage. This slender freestanding bookshelf has five adjustable shelves that add visual appeal from the cabriole feet and arched crown molding in two colors.

Designer Advice:

When you’re tight on space, you can still enjoy the beauty and functionality of french bookcases. Look for height instead of width features to give you the desired storage. You can get more shelves without compromising your available floor space when you go with a higher cabinet.

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Short Rustic Reclaimed Farm Feel

Short Rustic Reclaimed Farm Feel

One Allium Way®

For petite french country bookcases, go wide and short, like this bleached reclaimed wood pine bookcase. Charming characteristics like knots, imperfections, and nail holes add rustic elements, while the off-white interior splits into two non-adjustable outer and adjustable middle shelving.

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Rustic Minimalistic French Country

Rustic Minimalistic French Country

One Allium Way®

This tall minimalistic, rustic french bookcase is free of decorative frills and ornamentation typical of french country shelves. Instead, there’s a curved top border, four deep shelves, and two drawers at the bottom. 

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Double Glass Front Doored Curved Cabinetry

Double Glass Front Doored Curved Cabinetry

Kelly Clarkson Home

This traditional vintage cabinet with five adjustable shelves gives an updated french book case. Two doors with glass-paned panels allow you to view the contents inside, while the arched crown molding and cabriole feet add touches of old-school in two finishes.

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Bookcases with glass front doors give you a modern approach while giving you the benefit of seeing the contents inside the shelf. Cabinets with doors also help keep the items you keep stored in the cabinet free of dust and dirt and safe from being knocked over or broken. 

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Charming Classic Farmhouse Cabinet

Charming Classic Farmhouse Cabinet

Birch Lane™

This classic cabinet features traditional straight lines with three adjustable shelves at the top and double doors towards the bottom that gives you private storage. A scored, distressed white finish gives the poplar and rubberwood cabinets an authentic, aged farmhouse feel.

$1069.99 $1836

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French Country Bookcases

Buying Guide

French country bookcases are items of furniture which can bring instant character and charm to your kitchen or dining room. Ideally suited to these rooms, they are available in a range of colors and various styles to suit each home. Regardless of how much storage space you need, there is bound to be something that suits you. Here are some of the main deigns which you will find when shopping for country bookcases.

Large three-section French country bookcase

This style has three sections – two matching ones on either side of a larger unit. This is connected to form a large bookcase which will take up almost one full wall, depending on the size of your room. It is approximately 10-12 feet in length, and there are normally five shelves on each of the units on either side, and a mixture of drawers, cupboards and shelves on the middle and largest unit. A matching ladder may come with the unit to enable you to reach the very top shelf. The tallest part of the unit will be almost the size height as the ceiling, and stands around seven to eight feet tall. Often painted with a light color such as white to reflect the French country feel, this natural yet elegant unit is ideal for many homes.

Simple bookcase design with antique finish

With a curved edge along the bottom and one over the top too, the natural wooden planks within the bookcase are contrasted with a finished cream wooden frame. Along the very top of the unit is a wooden shelf which can be used to store books, ornaments and candles if you wish. There are three deep shelves, and the unit stands at around four to five feet tall. You can keep books on the French country case if you wish, or you can use it to store other items, such as kitchen accessories, baskets and ornaments.

French country bookcase with glass doors

Somewhat resembling a French curio cabinet with a glass door, this style of bookcase is traditional and sophisticated. You can keep your books stored safely behind the glass doors, which is ideal if you don't want them to come into contact with other items or you just prefer to keep your items behind closed doors. Since the doors are glass, you can easily view the books before opening the doors. The frame of the bookcase is teak or hardwood, and the detail along the bottom is traditional of old French country furniture.

Curved French country bookcase

Depending on the shape of the room that you intend to place the French country bookcase in, the curved design might be a good solution. Not only does this enable you to have more space, which is ideal for those with many books, but it also fits into the wall without having to take the form of a separate unit. Built into the wall, there are often features such as spinning shelves and reversible sections, and gold details over the top and down the sides are often seen.

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