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Five Creative Ways to Use Bookcases in Your Home

The bookshelf has long been a favorite of literature fans, housing their well-thumbed paperbacks and hardbound classics. However, Home Zone Furniture knows these furnishings offer more than storage. They also deliver flexible design solutions. 

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Types of Bookcases

Fuse your home with innovation, using bookcases as furniture to organize clutter, define floor plans, and add a touch of fun. These shelves complement every space, offering a variety of styles and accents to match your decor

Standard Bookshelves

Standards are known for their tall, wide frames and are the most common choices in many homes. They’re classically designed and easily transition from trend to trend. 

Barrister Style

Prefer old-world charm? Barristers sit neatly in any vintage-inspired space, offering glass accents, metallic hardware, and stacked cabinet constructions.

Cube Shelves

Give your home a modern makeover. Cube bookcases combine open-back shelves and sharp, symmetrical lines for a sleek effect. 

Ladder Style

Bring some industrial flair into your home with ladder bookcases. These sophisticated shelves prove perfect for narrow spaces, with their leaning frames slotting into even the tightest corners. 

Creative Bookcase Uses

After finding the perfect shelving for your home, you can focus on creating a fresh new design — using our five tips to elevate every shelf. 

Divide and Conquer 

Create a multipurpose space with ease, using bookshelves as stylish dividers. Strategically place them in a room to redefine the layout, building custom zones that adapt to your family’s needs. Changing the floor plan and traffic flow allows you to take full advantage of your home. 

You can also spare yourself the frustration of swinging a hammer. Free-standing shelves don’t need support or installation. They leave each space untouched and, unlike mounted curtain rods or glass partitions, maintain the walls’ integrity. Construction is unnecessary. 

Transform Your Bedroom 

Craving both style and function? While bookcases have traditionally been staples of home offices, living rooms, and reading nooks, these days they also serve as chic additions to the bedroom. Use them as headboards to anchor your space and create bold focal points. Achieve a sense of height in even low-ceiling conditions by drawing the eyes upward and adding texture with rich color palettes and playful accents.

House Them in Closets 

Nightstands border your bed, dressers anchor the wall, and you’ve shoved chests into any available corner. The battle for storage leaves you forever searching for extra space — but blending your home decor with bookcases may end that search. 

Turn bookstands into adaptable closet organizers. Their deep shelves easily accommodate shoes and clothing while their compact frames won’t steal precious floor space. Sturdy designs further help you maximize bedroom storage, taking on the weight of your heaviest blankets, suitcases, and accessories.

Make Your Garden Grow

Want to showcase your green thumb? Consider bringing the great outdoors into your home with bookcases, using their wide, flat shelves to display decorative planters, terrarium jars, and more. Hang small containers from the open sides, and flank the base with larger pots for a fun indoor garden. 

Due to the use of hardwood materials and mixed metals, book shelving should — in most situations — remain indoors. Exposure to intense ultraviolet rays, humidity, and rain undermines their structural integrity. Keep them in low-light environments and choose your plants accordingly. 

Add an Accent to Living Areas

Frustrated by flat walls and empty spaces? You can use bookshelves to transform them into imaginative focal points. Stylish bookshelves bring depth, dimension, and drama to every room.  

  • Position a sofa between bookcases to create an intimate seating nook. 
  • Flank your fireplace and turn it into a statement piece.
  • Frame unique room elements  such as window seats or arched doorways — to add emphasis.
  • Use horizontal shelves in shallow spaces to create an illusion of depth, extending the lines of the wall.

Home Zone Furniture Stores Sell Bookcases: Find Your Perfect Match

Turn every room into a statement, with innovative shelving that delivers storage, style, and sophistication to your home. 

Searching for a bookcase store near Dallas? Visit one of our Home Zone Furniture locations or contact our team directly to learn more about available options.

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How to Add Finishing Touches to Your Home Décor

While you may have carefully selected furniture for your home, such as a comfy lounge suite, stylish coffee table, and practical entertainment center, your home décor adds the finishing touches to any room. Home decorating accents are stylish pieces that turn your house into a home. They tie everything together, make your space feel cozy rather than empty, and give you an opportunity to showcase your personality. 

Whether you want to update a house you’ve lived in for years or you’re starting fresh in a new place, our home décor ideas will make your space feel complete. From adding fresh greenery and warm lighting to focal points and textures, these small and effortless touches have a significant impact.

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Choosing the Right Table for Your Living Room

Decorating your home with living room furniture that suits your lifestyle is essential for creating a cozy and functional space. But while selecting the ideal sofa or armchair may come easy, finding a living room table that complements your interior design and elevates your space might be more of a challenge.

Living room tables come in various sizes, shapes, colors, and functions, from large round coffee tables to stylish end tables with storage. With our living room and modern coffee-table guide, you can readily narrow your selection and incorporate a stylish piece of furniture that will be the perfect companion for your space.

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Preparing To Buy New Furniture? What To Do With Old Furniture

Do you remember your first sofa? The one you bought for half price, borrowed from a family member, or saved up for when you moved into your first apartment? Furniture is part of our daily lives and usually follows us wherever we go. However, as our lives change, so do our needs. You might find yourself needing a bigger dining table as your family grows or wanting a new bed when the old one starts to creak.

Whatever your reason for upgrading, you’ll need to remove your old furniture before buying new stuff or suffer a rather crowded living space. 

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What To Do With Used Furniture When You Need To Upgrade

Donate It to a Local Charity

This is the best way to repurpose old furniture, extending the life span of chairs, tables, sofas, and TV stands by letting others make good use of them. Plus, when you donate furniture, you help less fortunate people upgrade their living and working spaces. Of course, this option is best for gently used, surplus, or unwanted furniture and won’t work for anything damaged or beyond repair.

Donating is also an eco-friendly way to get rid of old furniture, preventing it from ending up in a landfill where it will go to waste. Furniture often contains plastics and metals that can leach chemicals into the environment over time, so it’s best to keep it in use for as long as possible. 

Nonprofit organizations that offer various donation drop-off points for used furniture:

Some donation centers will pick up your old furniture for free, while others may ask you to drop it off. You can also call local churches, libraries, and community centers to check whether they accept furniture donations and if they can pick up bulky items.

Recycle or Upcycle It

You can give your furniture new life by sending it to a local recycling center or upcycling it into something new. Many junk removal companies can recycle furniture by dismantling it and salvaging the best parts or selling it at a reduced price. 

If you have metal chairs, cabinets, and other office furniture, you can take them to a local scrap yard for recycling. These recyclers can use aluminum, steel, or wrought iron parts to make new products while you put cash back in your pocket. Most wooden furniture is also recyclable; you can often take it apart, sand it down, and turn it into something new.

If you prefer to keep your old furniture intact, you can sell it online to used furniture stores or via platforms such as CouchCycled. You can even trade old furniture with neighbors using Freecycle, a platform that lets you swap unwanted household items instead of throwing them away.

Take It Out With the Trash 

While reusing, recycling, and donating are ideal, some furniture items, like broken mirrors, frames, or water-damaged mattresses, simply have to go in the garbage. Always check with your waste removal provider before placing an old couch on the curb on trash day to make sure they accept bulky items. While most municipalities should take old furniture, you can always haul it to your local landfill or transfer station yourself if they don’t.

If you’re doing a full house cleanup or urgently making space for a new living room set, you can rent a dumpster to quickly get all your old furniture out of the way. Many private companies offer roll-off dumpster rental services, including delivery and pickup, to help dispose of old furniture without leaving your property. Rental prices differ depending on the size of the dumpster, so it’s best to estimate how much space your unwanted furniture will take up before contacting the company.

Find New Furniture at Home Zone Furniture 

Once you’ve disposed of your old furniture responsibly, you will have enough space to buy something new. Whether replacing mismatched chairs with a modern sectional sofa or swapping stained carpets for a plush new rug, you can find your next upgrade at Home Zone Furniture. We offer a range of high-quality, solid-wood furniture built to last, ensuring you won’t need another replacement for a long time.

Explore our living room, dining room, and bedroom furniture range, or browse our accessories and décor for design inspiration. Feel free to visit us in a store near you or contact us for more information about our collection.

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DIY Tips for Upholstered Furniture Care

One of the most exciting parts of decorating your home is choosing the furniture. Deciding on the size, shape, and design of pieces for a specific room, and then picking the color schemes and textures of the upholstery, sets the tone for your living space. Once completed, that room becomes as much a reflection of you as it is a place to kick back and relax. 

Of course, because you put so much effort into creating the perfect space, you’re going to want to enjoy the fresh look of your new furniture for years to come. Keeping your furniture clean and staying ahead of everyday spills and mishaps is essential, and will add years to each precious piece. 

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