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Glass Shelves Are Can Transform Your Interior Design

By Garry Shamn

Today is an era where a book is often judged by its cover. Whether or not there is enough substance with respect to a subject, it is necessary to present it in a special way. The same thing applies to the home we live in. This is why maintaining a living room becomes a necessity in today's world. Your living room reflects the way your home is not to mention the way your life is as well. And so it becomes your responsibility to give it a nice look by maintaining it in a proper fashion. Evidently, this will be a tough job as there will be huge amounts of accessories, stationary, furniture, and decorative items that have to be arranged to make a living room look perfect. An instant solution to this problem could be to dump unnecessary stuff into garage or a store room and simplify the necessary stuff. And for those who wish to arrange and organize their accessories, there are wooden, plastic or glass shelves.

Any conventional resident of the house would prefer wooden shelves because they get along well with the rest of the furniture taking into account that most furniture is in general wooden. For example, wooden tables, wooden chairs, wooden stools. However, as we look for an improved sense of beauty and architectural expertise, it is observed that glass furniture is showing new paradigms to design homes better. Glass furniture is gaining a lot of momentum these days as it has been observed that glass makes the living room look exceptionally good. Let us know how.

The very evident reason to begin with, is that they are beautiful. They make the living room look beautiful to look at considering that we have been using wooden furniture for decades and glass furniture blended with the furniture exhibits creativity which appeals very much to any human eye. A mere glance through any interior design magazine clearly shows how popular glass designs and shelves have given 21st century architecture a new dimension.

Apart from looking beautiful and improving the appeal of the living room, glass also meets the need to be strong. Ordinary glass, as we might expect would be brittle and might break off easily. But the kind of glass which is generally used for furniture is actually a different kind of glass which is both beautiful as well as strong. The kind of glass used for shelves is called 'tempered glass'. It is processed or rather, 'annealed' properly in order to meet our exact needs and this makes the glass less brittle. This means, when a glass of this kind breaks, it doesn't explode into tiny pieces of glass which are both harmful and cumbersome to deal with. Instead, they remain as big pieces and stay intact without releasing minute glass particles, which could scatter around on the floor or into food and drinks and cause harm. And hence this kind of glass is strong enough and can take enough stress to hold the kind of heavy books, or decoration pieces which are common in a living room. With advanced architectural and structural techniques, glass shelves have been designed to be able to bear more and more strain. Some people go to the extent of placing music systems and heavier electronic appliances on these shelves and they can take that strain too.

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