Awesome Shelves

The myth of Sisyphus sees a man being rolling a massive boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back down before the top, then repeat the task endlessly, reminding us that the journey is more important than the destination. Now, your toilet paper can experience that journey, thanks to Artori Design’s playful, diagonal bathroom shelf.

Do you collect Funko POP! figures? Assuming you take them out of the box to enjoy them, 630Laser’s acrylic wall shelves let you display them easily, and grow your display as you grow your collection. They stick with double-sided wall tape, and are sold in singles or multi-packs. They also make displays for boxed figures.

We’ve seen a couple of tables that can be transformed into shelves, but the Aiko is by far the most affordable one yet. It can be used as a table, a fully-upright bookshelf, or as a semi-open display shelf.

Tylko’s Type02 flat pack shelves combine customization with convenience. Choose from a variety of colors, patterns, sizes and more. Design everything from a shoe rack to a bookshelf. They have color-coded mounting points and require no tools to assemble.

This cleverly-designed wall shelf provides a horizontal surface for small trinkets, and a vertical one with a magnetic backing for knives, key rings, notes, and more. Made from solid oak wood. Its maker recommends you treat the wood with a varnish of your choice.

Ella Merriman was inspired by her old books to create the Dog-eared Shelf. It’s a simple yet funny and practical twist on shelves. One corner of the aluminum shelf is curled like the pages of an old book, allowing you to use it as a hook or a coat rack.

Quartertwenty’s smartly-designed storage decor offers a place to hang your bicycle, along with a wood shelf for accessories, books, or other small items. Its metal bike frame hooks can also hold a dowel if you’d rather use it to hang clothes. Includes mounting hardware.

Similar to, more minimal than the Urbana table, German Smart Living’s Swing is a wood and metal table that can be transformed into a shelf in one motion. It also has casters under its feet for easy transport. It comes in six variants, including two for outdoor use.

Designed by Michael Hilgers, Twofold is a brilliantly simple space-saving piece of furniture. When folded, it looks and works like a normal wall-mounted shelf. But you can bring its top half down and outward to create a desk.

Trent Austin Design’s appropriately named “Urbana Incredible” table can quickly convert from a dining table into a bookshelf. Simply loosen the side screws, and the shelf can be locked down at any angle along the way for a unique display shelf.

What better way to display and store your whiskey bottles than in a whiskey barrel? Back Forty Barrels makes this wall-mountable shelf from a reclaimed barrel stave, and includes the bung – the opening where spirits entered and left the barrel. Also available without the hole.

The QuickShelf Safe looks like an ordinary shelf, but it actually has a hidden compartment. You unlock its secret stash by placing one of the RFID keys on top of the shelf. You get four keys – two cards, one key fob, one token – and each shelf can work with up to 12 keys.

Snow Peak’s versatile camp furniture can not only be used as a couch or as a bed. You can also take it apart and use it as two chairs and a table, or as three stackable shelves. It comes with a pair of adjustable backrests and folds flat for storage.

A great fit for sneaker addicts. These chests are shaped and painted to look exactly like shoe boxes from Air Jordan, adidas, Supreme, and more. They come in two sizes: the small one holds up to 8 pairs of shoes, while the large one holds up to 16 pairs of shoes.

These interlocking modular display shelves are made from layers of high-strength cardboard using 80% recycled materials. They can be stacked like giant building blocks, and each shelf holds up to 44 lb. The blocks have both a black and a natural cardboard side.

Beautiful and versatile flat-pack shelves made out of aluminum and either oak or walnut. Tekio is available in different configurations and look organic whether solo or with multiple units side-by-side.

Sean Woolsey’s open-face home bar can hold 20 to 25 bottles, along with all of your barware, and up to 20 bottles of wine in the storage area. It’s made from powdercoated aluminum, with a black walnut pull out shelf for drink prep. Just be sure to mount it into wall studs!

“Put your spices, put your honey in there… Okay. Maybe your honey won’t fit in there. Need a little bit bigger shelf for your honey.” Michael Henn’s semi-permanent adjustable plastic shelf attaches to many surfaces using 3M Command Strips. Dad jokes included.

A smartly designed modern bookshelf combines three useful features in one. Its zig-zag shape provides a place to store books, a spot to hold your place, and a reading lamp underneath, which automatically switches on and off when your book is removed or placed.

Inspired by its store display shelves, Swenyo’s Wallace is a brilliantly simple modular shelving system that uses an easy to install aluminum mount and birch plywood rails. Mix and match its shelves, boxes, hooks and more as you desire.

Department Chicago’s beautiful mid-century-style stereo console. It has a pair of speakers, each with a 100W amp, a 6″ driver and a 1″ tweeter. You can connect to it via Bluetooth or RCA. It also comes with removable record dividers and an adjustable shelf.

Artist Sebastian Errazuriz created a series of beautiful wall shelves and tables that incorporate fallen tree branches from the forests of South America. The only additions are paint, glass shelves, and the occasional bit of steel to provide added support.

Nendo’s piece for the 2015 London Design Festival, the Nest Shelf cleverly hides an inner copy of itself, effectively doubling its width when fully extended. It’s made of carbon fiber and aramid, then coated in larch veneer.