3 Of The Best-Selling Bookcases At Ikea

An organized and stylish bookcase is becoming a popular trend these days. According to Literary Hub, a professional book stager can now help you arrange your bookshelves like a curated art show. You may not necessarily need to hire a professional to create a beautiful display of your own books, but you will need to find an attractive bookcase upon which to feature it. A good bookcase will complement just about any room in the house and provide an endless array of storage options. Position it next to a desk to expand your home office, or use it to organize baskets of craft supplies. Even a bookcase in the kitchen can allow for the open-shelving trend when it's filled with decorative tableware and colorful cookbooks.

Ikea offers many well-built bookcases that are reasonably priced and often part of a collection. This option gives you the choice to purchase a single piece or add it to matching items to create a larger storage solution. However you decide to style your bookshelves, Ikea has a number of options that will work great as the base of your display. Here are three of their best-selling bookcases.

Ikea's BILLY bookcase collection was launched in 1979 and it continues to be one of their best sellers. This open BILLY Bookcase with customizable shelves can be used on its own or it can be the base of a larger collection of coordinating pieces. The white unit is priced at $89.00, but the bookshelf is also available in black-brown or birch for $109.00. It is priced economically due to its construction from particleboard as opposed to solid wood, but many customers mention that the BILLY bookcases they've bought in the past have held up beautifully for years.

Customers use these bookcases to house a library in the den, store shoes in a closet, or create a space to organize bedtime books and baskets of toys in a nursery. The bookshelf can even be used as a built-in pantry in the kitchen. One reviewer comments that the unit has a "classic traditional look [that] blends nicely with the varied styles of furniture" in their home. Another reviewer states, "Good quality and more customizable than most. I was able to make taller shelves for plants, not as tall for hardcovers, and narrower shelves for paperbacks. Almost impossible to accomplish with other units."

The BILLY Bookcase with glass doors brings a bit of color to the best-selling BILLY collection. It works well on its own or in conjunction with the other complementary pieces, and again, the adjustable shelves make it easy to customize your collection of books or décor and feature them behind beautiful glass doors. Available for $229.99, this bookcase is made of particleboard and is available in dark blue or gray.

Reviewers are filled with compliments for this unit, and they offer various ways to customize its use. One review says, "This bookshelf is just what my office needed. It's sturdy, and holds a lot! I love how professional it looks." Another reviewer uses it as a linen closet for sheets and towels, and yet another suggests adding peel-and-stick wallpaper inside for a decorative touch. One satisfied customer notes that the "Billy cabinet in dark blue adds a calming color to our neutral colored room. ... Very classy and such a good value." Finally, one reviewer calls the bookcase "sleek and beautiful," but adds that it "must be mounted to [the] wall as the weight of the glass doors make[s] it easy to tip forward when opening."

This HAUGA Bookcase with cabinet offers the best of two worlds. It features open shelving to display items such as books, pottery, or pieces of art, and it also includes a bottom cabinet to store table linens, cookware, or office and electronic accessories. The bookcase is made of particleboard and is available for $179.99 in white or gray. Its simple lines and classic style will fit in well with a modern interior design aesthetic. 

Customers have found a variety of uses for this double duty piece of furniture, such as board game storage in the playroom or for extra organization inside the closet. Creative reviewers use it as a coffee station, with the coffeemaker on the main shelf, cups and saucers on the smaller shelves above, and the extra coffee supplies stowed out of sight in the cabinet below. It's very popular in the kitchen, as one person states, "It provides storage for seldom used appliances and plastic storage containers behind the cabinet doors, and [an] open display of cookbooks and pretty cookware above." Another customer agrees with this idea noting, "Absolutely thrilled with how this unit has transformed the whole look of my kitchen."