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Bookcases and shelving for the living room

Bookcases and shelving ready to assemble at home, with open units for books and bookcases with doors for closed storage. Widths from 43 to 200 cm and heights up to 215 cm, with prices from around €75 to roughly €430.

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Bookcases and shelving ready to assemble at home, with open units for books and decorative items and bookcases with doors for closed storage. The catalogue brings together more than twenty references in two main formats —open tower-style shelves and bookcases with a solid front—, with widths from 43 cm up to around 200 cm and heights ranging from 77 cm to 215 cm. Finishes cover the full oak range (Sonoma, Wotan, Riviera, dark Flagstaff, Stirling, Artisan), matte and gloss white, graphite and two-tone combinations, with prices from around €75 to roughly €430.

Types of shelving: open, with doors or hallway-style

Open shelving leaves every shelf in view: it is the natural choice for displaying books, plants, frames or decorative pieces, and visually lightens the wall by adding no solid front. Benny 80, Nevada A 81, Nepo Plus 114, Style 77, Zele 56 and Romance 76 follow this logic, with between 2 and 12 shelves depending on height. Bookcases with doors (Nuis 90, Nevada 81, Hesen 106, Yamael 90, Balder 62, Gent 66, Nepo Plus 60) combine an upper display zone with a closed body underneath, useful when you want to hide folders, board games or pieces that are not the decorative focus. Low, elongated hallway-style models such as Yamael 90 (200 cm wide and only 90 cm tall) or Homeland 60 (215 cm wide with 56 cm of height) work as a bench-bookcase in long hallways, under windows, or as a transition piece between living and dining rooms.

Available finishes: oak, white, graphite and two-tone

The oak finishes cover every tonal temperature for the living room: Sonoma and Wotan in warm honey, Riviera and Stirling in more neutral and contemporary tones, dark Flagstaff for pieces with presence, and Artisan with a pronounced rustic grain (Space Office 80). Matte white and gloss white —available on Benny 80, Homeland 60, Holten 68 and several Nevada and Nepo Plus references— visually expand small spaces and integrate effortlessly with existing furniture. Graphite (Yamael 90, Hesen 106) brings contrast for living rooms where the rest of the furniture is light and a chromatic anchor is wanted. The two-tone combinations pair an oak body with gloss white fronts (Balder 62, Nepo Plus 60), useful for avoiding monotony when the living room already has a TV unit or a chest of drawers in one of the two tones.

Sizes and formats: tall narrow, mid-sized or low and long

Width and height define what the bookcase is for. Narrow, tall pieces between 43 and 80 cm wide with 190–215 cm of height (Nevada 43, Homeland 60, Style 77, Zele 56, Balder 62, Nuis 50, Gent 66, Hesen 106, Holten 68, Romance 76) make use of vertical space without taking up floor area and fit into narrow corners, between doors or flanking a TV unit. The mid-sized formats (90–115 cm wide, 145–200 cm tall), such as Nuis 90, Ema 105 or Nepo Plus 114, are the most versatile for a standard living room and combine display zones with closed storage. The low and long pieces (Yamael 90, Homeland 60) exceed 200 cm in width and stay below 100 cm in height, so they work under windows or as a room divider between two zones. Depth ranges from 30 to 44 cm: 30–32 cm is enough for books and figurines, while models with 40–44 cm of depth take archive boxes, electronics or larger vases.

Drawers, adjustable shelves and fittings

Models with drawers (Holten 68 with three, Space Office 80 with two, Gent 68 with two, Gent 88 with one, Yamael 90 with one) add closed storage for table linen, documents or small accessories without giving up the open upper shelves. The drawers run on metal runners with safety stops and the doors, on most references, use soft-close hinges, which extends the life of the fittings and prevents banging when closing. Shelves can be fixed —when they structure the unit and carry more weight— or adjustable in height, which allows you to adapt the openings to paperback books in one area and to taller boxes or vases in another. On open models such as Nepo Plus 114, with twelve shelves spread vertically, the layout lets you combine books, decoration and plants in a single structure without making the whole feel cluttered.

How to choose the right shelving for your use

Before choosing, decide what you will store and how much you want on display. If the bookcase is going to hold mostly books, prioritise usable width and reinforced shelves: a 80 cm shelf full of books easily weighs 25–30 kg, so it is worth avoiding references with long unsupported spans. If the piece is decorative —frames, plants, displayed crockery—, look for adjustable shelves and shallow depth (30–32 cm), so objects are seen in full rather than swallowed by the background. A practical rule to avoid overloading is to leave at least a third of each shelf visible and to combine vertical volume (stacked books) with horizontal (books grouped in threes), so the eye finds resting points between pieces.

Fitting them into a small or spacious living room

In small living rooms, a narrow tall open bookcase with no back panel (or a thin one) visually lightens the wall and prevents the unit from «closing» the room; models such as Style 77, Nevada 43, Zele 56 or Nuis 50 work well in this context because they take up little floor space and rise close to the ceiling, using the air normally left empty above low furniture. In spacious living rooms, a bookcase with lower doors (Hesen 106, Nevada 81, Nuis 90, Ema 105) tidies the whole and leaves the upper part as a display zone. If the bookcase will sit next to a TV unit or a vitrine, choose finishes from the same family: the Nevada, Nuis, Gent, Balder and Nepo Plus series have matching references across shelving, vitrine and TV units, which keeps colour and fittings unified without resorting to bespoke pieces.

Shipping across Spain and home assembly

The bookcases are delivered flat-packed in boxes with screws, fittings, individually wrapped shelves and an instruction manual included. Assembly takes between one and two hours depending on the number of shelves and doors, and only requires a screwdriver and a rubber mallet to seat the dowels; on tall models, it is worth fixing the unit to the wall with the bracket included to prevent tipping, especially if it will hold books or heavy objects. We ship across the peninsula and the Balearic Islands, and we handle pre-sale questions about measurements, shelf load capacity or finish compatibility between series before purchase.