Built-In Bookcase Ideas for the modern and traditional home.
Fitted Bookcases
Fitted bookcases work great in alcoves. Alcoves are a perfect place to fit shelving and additional cabinets. A fireplace offers a perfect opportunity for extra shelving creating a cosy and symmetrical look and an instant home library.
Here are some more beautiful alcove units featuring floating shelves, shaker cabinets and moldings in Victorian style to sleek modern and minimal lines.
Fitted shelves and cabinets around a fireplace. You can use color to create depth and to highlight certain features.
Blue blue electric blue (hague blue actually). Via Crouch End Carpentry. 
Two alcove bookcases designed to match the Victorian fireplace. The customer decided to paint it with grey color and it really transformed this living room and created a cozy atmosphere. Via jvcarpentry.com 
Traditional alcove cabinets with modern floating shelves in Victorian house with fireplace in between. Via jvcarpentry.com
Stylish mix of modern and traditional. A traditional Victorian fireplace with given a modern edge with floating shelves, walls and shaker cabinet painted in Little Greene Paris Rooftops. Via crouchendcarpentry in the UK.
If you don’t know what to do with strange alcoves, nooks and crannies in your home, adding a fitted bookshelf not only gives you a better, flowing look, it adds always needed extra storage.
Stepped cupboard with floating shelves. Via Crouch End Carpentry. 
Two alcove bookcases designed to match the Victorian fireplace. The customer decided to paint it with grey color and it really transformed this living room and created a cozy atmosphere. Via jvcarpentry.com 
Fitted alcove with custom gray paint. Via jvcarpentry.com 
Blue painted alcove cabinet and bookshelves, a great way to hide ugly infrastructure. Via jvcarpentry.com 
Replace handrails by a staircase with built-in bookshelves. Via Crouch End Carpentry.
Over the door Bookshelf
Built-in bookcase around doorway
Solid oak ladder with stainless steel bar and fittings, creating a library around a doorway is a great use of space. Job from Crouch End Carpentry.
This bookshelf over a door make great use of much needed space by going over a doorway, oak ladder and steel handrails are great for reaching those things stored higher up.
Sources
jvcarpentry.com, Crouch End Carpentry.
