Oak Bookcases & Bookshelves

Oak bookcases include traditional sturdy and stately furniture with stacked shelves and closed backs for housing books or displaying keepsakes. Oak shelving comes in contemporary, sleeker designs as well, without sacrificing substance for form. Many more modern oak-finished pieces are structurally secure, even while available in lightweight, adjustable, and foldable designs, all of which provide an attractive accent to any space. Much of the oak shelving comes in easy, ready-to-assemble kits. Browse Staples® for office and home furniture to meet all requirements. 

Oak Bookcases for All Spaces
Traditional and contemporary oak-finished shelves fit anywhere, from dorm rooms to offices to classrooms, as well as any space in the home, whether the den, living room, or bedroom. They're available as both open-architecture and close-backed oak bookshelves, and as corner units and hallway hanging shelves. These units all provide you a range of storage and display options to match any interior decor or functional application.

Some home bookcases are elegant versions of traditional shelving. They include sliding glass doors with pocket handles and thickly mullioned windows for displaying the contents of the main shelves and keeping them dust-free. Coffer-style molded frames at the bottom of each door hide a larger area for extra storage. The unit rests on four solid-wood turned-ball feet for added architectural appeal. More basic shelves include open slotted display units for the classroom, giving students access to large storybooks and other school material, with heavy-duty casters for classroom mobility. For offices, dens, and libraries, bookcases consisting of side-by-side shelves and storage drawers with attractive leather pull handles are available for combining versatile storage with unique, appealing looks.

Types of Material and Finishes for Oak Bookshelves
Oak shelving comes in several durable underlayment's, including hardwood, melamine, birch plywood, laminates, and fiberboard. Some oak shelving consists of lightweight, hollow-core metal framing, powder-coated for durability, with multi-density fiberboard shelves. Bookcase shelves themselves have light, medium, or dark-oak finishes, depending on the substrate. Oak finishes range from oak-stylized and textured paint to hand-rubbed oak stains and oils, to oak veneers. Many of the finishes also come in gray, weathered-oak colors.

What Are the Dimensional Elements of the Bookcases?
You can get practically any reasonable size and shape of oak bookshelf, ranging from rectangular tall multi-shelf units, both narrow and wide, to short units, whether squat or console-style. Square dimensions, also in tower height or short boxy dimensions, are available as well, as are both triangular and corner dimensions.

What Are Some of the Unconventional Oak Bookshelves?
Besides the traditional closed-backed and contemporary open-architecture shelving, two shelving styles, with unique practically, are available. One includes shelving designed for easy assembly and mobility, ideal for the dorm room. The bookcases are assemblies in which sets of hinges and brackets allow the shelves to fold upwards and the sides to collapse inward for flat storage or portability, and then the opposite for assembly and use. Attaching a top shelf secures the entire unit for stability. Another stylized bookcase includes a single shelf unit secured to a wall-mounting board, containing a series of pegs for hanging hats and coats in entryways or mudrooms.

Do Oak Bookcases Have Adjustable Shelves?
Many of the traditional closed-backed bookcases have pegged-dowel slots on the inside rails to seat individual shelves at different heights from each other. These configurations are normally for units with between four and seven individual shelves. Units with between two and four shelves are normally fixed in place, as are square-unit bookcases.