unique book shelving and storage solutions

Not every home would look great with a big white polar bear in it, but for the home with a safari room this bookshelf is right on the money. The large, adorable bear shaped shelves hold books and other objects while proclaiming to the world that you care about the dwindling polar bear population.

What do you get when you combine bookcases, comfy seats and wheels? You get portable storage that doubles as a relaxing reading space. These designs, both from Nils Holger Moorman, let you follow (or avoid) the sun by moving your reading space around to the optimal location. The lounge chair even comes with a built in lamp, further enhancing the portable reading experience.

Those of us who grew up with a book semi permanently attached to our hands have heard the above proclamation millions of times. But the ex libris table design defies parental orders and encourages reading at the table. The bookshelf legs provide ample storage for any and every book you could possibly need while dining; cookbooks would be an especially wonderful (if slightly obvious) choice for this setting.

If reading is much more than just a casual hobby for you, it makes sense to erect a monument to your books. These massive silver pyramid bookshelves are fit for pharaohs or anyone with a home large enough to accommodate them.

Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, these clever tree shaped bookshelves would look great all year round. Smaller objects or magazines could occupy the top levels while larger tomes would be relegated to the bottom, and when the holidays roll around you can simply replace the books with ornaments or gifts for a needle free tree.

Moving frequently can be hard on bookshelves, as anyone who has ever tried to disassemble and reassemble an Ikea bookshelf can attest to. But the Knockdown Bookcase is meant to be taken down and rebuilt over and over again with no tools and no hassle. The pieces simply slot together, so you can go from a box full of pieces to a fully assembled bookshelf in literally minutes.

You know the kind of person who prints out labels for everything in their home? This is the bookshelf for them. The shelf is actually made of letters that spell out the word shelf, leaving absolutely no doubt as to what that thing hanging on the wall might be.

You cant always fit a large bookshelf into a living area, so Henry Julier designed the Magneto shelving system each piece of wood contains super strong neodymium magnets that allow the shelves to stick to fridges, whiteboards or other surfaces. They may not be strong enough to hold up your entire book collection, but theyre perfect for sticking a few up here and there.

One of the best things about having a sizable book collection is sharing it with friends and family. This mobile bookcase design lets you do more than that you can haul your books around behind you, becoming your own mobile library. Quitante, by estudio, is a simple design consisting of fruit crates, cargo straps, plywood and castors and its completely brilliant.

If youre the DIY type, and you have a sense of humor about your books, this unconventional storage solution might be just your thing. Without harming your books, you can create a fun upside down shelf to display them and you can even use the bottom of the shelf for storing other objects double your fun.