Glass Shelves for Living Room
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.
Updated
19/01/2022
While you might be used to thinking of glass for the bathroom and wood in the rest of your home, glass shelves for living room can be a much more creative and quirky decorative choice. They translate into a spacious airy feel and can often be a better match for contemporary settings. Because they’re not as strong as wood, however, decorate them wisely with items that aren’t too heavy.
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Quirky glass shelf
Wrought Studio™
This 18” x 6” glass shelf for living rooms is small but mighty when it comes to design, guaranteed to grab your guests’ attention with its sleek wave-style look that translates into two separate sections.
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Wallmounted glass shelves for living room in a tiered design
This piece consists of three 35” glass shelves for living room kept together by a luxurious iron frame in an opulent gold finish, perfect for art deco and Hollywood regency settings in particular.
Designer Advice:
Tiered models with some kind of frame are a beautiful compromise between a set of standalone shelves and a closed cabinet: they maintain some tidy lines and a compact look without forcing you to give up on the airy feel of floating shelves.
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Simple glass shelf for living room
Latitude Run®
This glass shelf comes with subtle accents in chrome, black, or white and 25 different sizes (from 18” to 48” in length), so it’ll be a breeze to find the right one for what you’re planning on storing on it.
Designer Advice:
A basic glass shelf is usually the best choice to showcase some special pieces such as collectible ones, figurines, or small curated selections of items. This is because, unlike more elaborate designs or wooden models, a glass shelf won’t draw attention away from what’s on top of it.
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Modern glass shelves living room
Greyleigh™
40” in height and 31.5” in width, this piece with four shelves combines glass and metal in a glam finish that can help you reinforce your modern interiors thanks to its creative geometric shapes.
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Long glass shelves
Ebern Designs
This set of two 39.4” glass shelves is a practical option if you have quite a few items or books that you’d like to store. You can choose between two different depths, too.
Designer Advice:
Just because they’re identical and part of a set, it doesn’t mean that you must automatically place your shelves one above the other! If you have quite a lot of wall space left, consider creating visually interesting lines by placing one shelf slightly to the side, with only a portion of them overlapping vertically.
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Creative floating shelf design
Latitude Run®
Available in nine sizes and in a brushed steel or black model, this glass shelf for living room delights us with some raw vibes thanks to the metal brackets, especially indicated if there won’t be any wall decor above it.
$94.43
$96.88
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Accent glass shelf design
Greyleigh™
Available in a golden or silver finish, this set of two glass shelves in an 18” or 24” design does a great job of putting your chosen items in the spotlight. The ornate corners are also delightfully decorative.
$128.99
$142.99
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Set of floating glass shelves for living room
This set of two 24” x 6” floating glass wall shelves is a practical choice to store a good variety of smaller items, such as souvenirs, succulents, and paperback books.
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Glass and wooden wall shelf
Loon Peak®
This long 55” shelf maintains the floating effect of its glass element but pairs it up with a creative wooden background that’ll stand out against your white walls.
Designer Advice:
This type of design is a handy compromise if you’d like to keep an airy feel in that part of the room while also reinforcing your decor’s cohesiveness by matching your existing wood finishes.
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Glass shelf design on wall with an additional layer
Latitude Run®
Choose between brown and black depending on your palette’s hues. While the glass shelf will allow you to showcase a plant or a particularly special decorative item, the bottom part is perfect for some coffee table books.
$146.99
$175.99
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Glass Shelves for Living Room
