Need Creative Storage? Try Decorative Book Boxes
No matter how much space we have in our closets, attics, and garages, we seem to never have enough room to store everything. Items like Christmas decorations and baby clothes are stuffed into plastic storage bins and stacked away where we hope nobody will ever see them. Even the assorted items we use every day need a neat, tidy place to be stored when they aren’t in use.
Fortunately, storage solutions have gotten more sophisticated over the years. Hat boxes, long used in areas like bedroom corners as an attractive way to store photos, are great for adding a feminine touch to a corner. But for an even more inventive solution, consider choosing one of the many book boxes on the market.
Creative Options
Designed to sit upright on a bookshelf or rest flat on a table, decorative book boxes look like books on the outside. However, the front cover opens and reveals an interior that is completely hollow. You can tuck your items inside and keep tabletops, counters, and desks clear and clutter free. If you have bookshelves that always seem to be empty, you can fill them with book boxes. You can even stack them on an end table or coffee table for convenient storage that looks attractive.
From literary classics to movie titles to designs that don’t even relate to a book at all, there’s no shortage of options when it comes to storage boxes. The design of these boxes makes it appear as though they have actual pages, creating the illusion that they’re real books. The only problem is that your guests may pick one up in an effort to read it and be surprised to find it isn’t a book at all.
Keeping Items Safe
As attractive a storage option as book boxes make, they’re even more valuable as safes. Safe books are made from real books, complete with pages around the outside. When you pull it off the shelf and open the front cover, however, you’ll find a hollowed-out section in the center designed to hold valuables such as jewelry and cash. It’s important to note that these safes don’t lock, so you’re relying solely on a criminal not realizing your book isn’t actually a book at all.
If you’d prefer something more authentic looking, you can try a do-it-yourself version using a real book, a sharp utility knife, a saw, and thin super glue. This will allow you to use a book from your own library, ensuring it will better blend with the books around it. You’ll just need to make sure you pick an extra-thick book and find one you never plan to read again, since you’ll be destroying it.
Decorative book boxes are an attractive way to keep clutter at bay, serving as a better alternative to standard storage bins. Whether you’re interested in hiding valuables or keeping your items out of sight, there are plenty of options on the market todays. You may even be able to make your own.
