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Vitsoe is lovely - string shelving would be a cheaper alternative but still nice (it’s what I have in my office). Worth thinking about lighting and sound etc also if you’re specifically redoing the room
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Irish seaside bungalow
Some design inspo for you
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Another +1 for String. Looks great, easy to install and very flexible.
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Fittingly, with a 4 bay 2.5m wide by 2.4m tall (limited to full sheet timber size) is coming out at just over £1500 (before discount, seems if you take a virtual consultation, you get a 25% discount).
Good range of customisation in finishes. I couldn't get the tool to equally space the shelves, but you could get the "consultation" or their online chat help to do that.
Not much different to Billy though if you go that route and not sure if they deliver to Ireland.
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Vitsoe, you won't regret it and if you want to sell it it's easy. I make furniture and I have lots of Vitsoe because it's overall better value than anything I can make.
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I might have misread the brief, but your OP sounds like you want bookshelves over ~70% of one wall to house lots of books in a room that will almost only be used to work in.
Imo your initial plan of the Billy bookcase hack is the right one. Black twinslot with nice looking shelves is another (potentially) cheaper option - but the lack of a sides, back and proper top is less practical than the Billy idea.
If it was for your living room housing a mix of items then investing in Vitsoe might make sense. But if you're looking for shelves to store your books then you want bookshelves. Going any other way seems like form over function.
Sorry if I've missed something.
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+1 for Tomado - only 200mm deep mind.
I cooked up a plan for a knock off vitsoe vibe using these spur bookend brackets once ...
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Wife has finally come to the realisation that I’m full time working from home and given the nod to turn our spare bedroom with a desk into a dedicated office, so before she could change her mind I dismantled the hatefully uncomfortable ikea hemnes day bed and stored it away in the loft til we get more rooms up there.
First on my agenda is to sort shelving for the wall opposite the desk as we currently have almost no storage space for books or otherwise in the house, meaning all our books are still in storage since we moved out of our previous house in July 2020! I’m totally paralysed with decisions!
I started out with a plan to do the old built in Billy bookcase hack, but that has quickly escalated to an enquiry with vitsoe on some 606 shelving (likely 3 bays to begin with, just shelves because budget won’t stretch to cabinets up front), but I’d love to hear from the masses on my options. Blank wall about 3.5m in width, 2.5m high, but I don’t want to use the full width as there’s a door on the perpendicular wall on one end, and want to keep it symmetrical on the opposite end.
House is a mid-90’s Irish seaside bungalow, so I’m a bit concerned that vitsoe might look wildly out of place.
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