27 Custom Bookcases & Bespoke Shelving Units Ideas

On this page, we put together some of the best bespoke bookcases that we built in the past for our customers in London. I hope that gives you lots of great ideas to choose your perfect design. Custom fitted bookcases not only provide you with book storage it is also a good place to display picture frames of ones you love and store your favourite subjects such as birthday cards for example. Many people use their bookshelves to show their favourite books and trophies and once you have guests they can tell about you by simply looking at your favourite books on the shelves. Custom shelving can be crafted to fit any available space and they transform your living room to another level.

Our bookshelves units are very bespoke and can be modified to your taste. They can be made in a very traditional style by adding to your bookcase a lot of details such as beading, skirting board and coving. Optionally we can make them in a very contemporary way with minimum details and chunky floating shelves.

In most cases, our customers prefer to have bespoke bookshelves with lower cabinets with doors at the bottom and shelving space at the top and most of the cabinets are slightly deeper than the shelves and stick out a bit more. But we can design your bookcases to your custom needs and they can be made without doors and only shelves from top to bottom.

All of our bespoke bookcases are made from MDF and fitted with professional carpenters and hand painted on site by professional painters with any custom colour you like. Read more about How we work.

We also shared some pricing examples for your information below. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us.

Bespoke bookshelves wall to wall — This bookcase is about 3,8m wide and it cost about £4,700+VAT

So If you live in London and within M25 range we would be pleased to hear from you. The members of our team will be glad to assist you with rough prices first before we continue to the next step - your home visit and measuring process. We are a registered limited VAT company and accept all forms of payments including major Credit Cards, PayPal or direct transfer payments.

If you are interested in alcove bookshelves then go visit this page instead - Alcove shelving ideas for your living room

Custom bookcase very interesting style with random chunky floating shelves and cabinets with plain doors. Very modern and minimalistic design for modern properties. This is the picture of our very first bookcase in this style we designed and built in London in 2011. This bookcase was designed by our customer and at that time I thought it a very crazy idea to do random-sized shelves. If I'm being honest, I thought it was going to look awful. But once we built it actually appeared to look very good and it became a very popular style, and I placed it at the front page of our website and since then we have built over 50 custom bookcases of similar styles. Some of them you can find below. The rough price for this bookcase is around £4,000+VAT

So after we built our fist 'crazy paving like' bookcase people started to love it and this project was the second custom bookcase similar style that we installed in Acton, West London. This one we made with grey-painted doors and the same green cubby holes created by chunky shelves. We also installed an LED light strip on the top shelf pointing to the ceiling. This custom bookcase roughly cost £4,000+VAT

Another 'crazy paving-like' custom bookshelves contemporary style that we recently designed and fit for our customer in East London. This time we used grey colour for the cubbyholes. Looking good as well! This custom bookcase roughly cost £4,000+VAT

In this example, you can see a very similar design of the fitted bookshelves but this time it is painted in white without different colour cubby holes. This custom bookcase roughly cost £4,300+VAT

bespoke bookshelves with cabinets — Bespoke bookcase with floating shelves. Rough price is £2400+VAT

This bookcase was made with shaker doors at the bottom and at the top we designed it with some floating shelves. Because the space is a bit too wide for a single shelf, we made it with a vertical partition to create two sets of shelves. This makes the shelves much stronger.

The whole wall bookcase with cabinet — This custom bookshelves with cabinets roughly cost £3,900+VAT

Custom bookshelves with floating shelves which we built on a wide wall ad to go around the pillow. We designed it with chunky countertop to match the floating shelves, two grilled doors and skirting board to match existing.

Another example of custom bookcase with chunky shelves that we made in Chiswick (West London) in 2010. The rough price for these custom bookshelves is £4,950+VAT

Probably the biggest bespoke bookcase I ever built. It has 10 doors at the bottom and covers 5m wall. It made with chunky shelves and space for TV in the middle. Rough price is £5,800

Another custom bookshelves with shaker doors. You can see it is very common to paint the back of the bookshelves with dark grey colour to create a good contrast. This bookcase roughly cost £3,600+VAT

We designed this interesting custom bookcase for our customers in South London. It's very handy to have a little desk for the laptop where you can work at home so this bookcase got this feature. Sd you can see from the photo we also created a space for 15 bottles of wine surrounded by the shelves.

I am also happy to share our original Cad drawing for this bookcase that we made for the customer before we started installation. This is a good example of how we work. A detailed Cad drawing is always provided to agree on the sizes and all specifications.