That often-ignored wall section under your windows is actually a prime location for extra storage, making any room feel tidier and more useful. Here are 30 creative ways to approach this, from simple shelves to full built-ins, or even a comfortable place to sit.
Floating Wood Shelves for Displaying Small Decor
Light-toned wood forms simple floating shelves beneath your window. They're a clean backdrop for carved wooden birds, stacked wooden discs, and brass candle holders.
Integrate Plants with Built-in Bookshelves
Built-in shelving units against the living room wall hold greenery alongside books. The dark shelves are a backdrop for various potted plants.
Frame Your Window with Long, Narrow White Shelving
Beneath your window, long, narrow white shelves run horizontally to display books and small decorative items. Their simple white finish blends with the wall.
Modular Cubes That Hold Records and Create a Window Seat
Stack simple wooden cube modules beneath your window to form a low bench where your vinyl collection can be stored, then add cushions to make a comfortable seat.
Blue Bookshelf Filled With Books and Plants
Blue defines the color of a bookshelf placed under your window for storing books and displaying greenery. Its shelves are filled with colorful spines.
Unify Your Space with Low White Shelving Across the Wall
A long, low white shelving unit, running the full length of your wall, can hold books, decorative items, and small plants on its continuous surface.
Maximize Space with Low White Built-In Bookshelves
Low white bookshelves extend across the wall beneath your window, holding books and decor.
Glass Box Holders for Candles and Books
Place clear glass boxes on your shelves; they're suitable for holding pillar candles and small stacks of books, keeping them neatly contained.
White Cube Shelving for Magazine and Decor Display
A low, modular white cube unit sits under your window for magazines and decorative items. Its open cubbies are for stacking periodicals, while a framed map, a potted plant, and lanterns rest on the top. It's especially useful for spots that don't get much other use.
Built-in Shelving With a Wide Ledge for Plants and Decor
Build shelves beneath your windows that extend into a wide ledge. The ledge holds a large potted plant and decorative shells, while the shelves below are filled with books. This works best if you want to mix greenery and personal items into your storage.
Dark Wood Media Console With Record Storage
If you need storage for vinyl records, a long, dark wood media console fits under a large window. Its open compartments keep records upright and also hold books and decorative bowls.
Light Wood Shelving Unit for Media Storage
With its low profile designed to fit perfectly under a large window, a simple light wood shelving unit with multiple compartments neatly holds your DVD and Blu-ray collection and allows for alphabetical or genre-based organization.
White Bookcase With Pagoda Decor and Orchids
A long, white bookcase holds both books and decorative items. It's topped with white pagoda sculptures and a tall vase with an orchid arrangement.
Two Tiers of White Ledges for Easy Book Access
White ledges, mounted narrowly beneath your window, can display children's books. If you arrange them in two rows, little ones will find their favorite stories simple to see and reach. It's a good choice when you don't want book storage to take up floor space.
Black Pendant Lights That Add Dramatic Contrast
Matte black pendant lights hang large above your dining area. They sit against the white walls and ceiling.
Built-In Shelves That Double as Window Seat Storage
A bench seat built directly over a series of low shelves forms a reading nook, utilizing the entire length of the window wall. It offers ample space for books and a comfortable place to sit. Patterned cushions introduce color and a soft texture to the bench.
Built-in Wooden Base With Open Shelves for Books
Build a low wooden unit into the wall to hold your favorite books. Its open shelves mean you can see your collection readily.
Keep Books Accessible with Built-in Window Seat Shelves
Open white shelving is integrated into the base of your window seat for your favorite reads. This continuous white base can wrap around a corner, holding a diverse collection.
Built-In Shelving With a Window Seat and Storage Drawers
If a spot feels bare beneath your window, a built-in window seat provides a cozy addition with shelving and drawers. Its light blue cabinetry, which contrasts softly with the patterned wallpaper, offers discreet storage for blankets or books, and its cushioned seat invites relaxation.
Maximize Space with a Wooden Bench and Integrated Cabinets
A custom wooden bench built into your window area includes cabinetry below, creating a seating spot and a place to tuck away blankets, games, or electronics out of sight.
Purple Cushions Top Built-In Shelves for Books and Records
Incorporate purple cushions onto built-in window seating. The custom benches offer storage below for books and records.
Wooden Built-in Shelving That Wraps Around the Corner
For a unified look, a wooden storage structure follows your window line and wraps corners. This same warm wood throughout the space holds many texts.
Conceal Clutter with Natural Wood Cabinets Under a Window Seat
Light-colored wood, showing its grain, forms a continuous shelving unit beneath your window seat. Simple cabinet doors hide everyday items.
Blend Storage with Flooring Using Light Wood Cabinets
Light wood cabinets with handle-less drawers sit beneath a large window, complementing light wood flooring.
Recede Visually with Dark Gray Built-Ins Under a Window
Dark gray built-in cabinets and shelves can span your window's full length, allowing the light to be the focus. The unit contains open shelves holding literature and closed cabinets for discreet storage.
Light Wood Drawers Under Window Seat Create Discreet Storage
Light wood drawer fronts form a low-profile storage unit beneath a window seat, blending with the surrounding cabinetry. This offers a subtle place to tuck away items.
Woven Baskets That Organize Under Window Seating
Natural fiber woven baskets, some numbered, fit into cubbies below a window seat to store items.
Built-In Bench With Patterned Cushions for Cozy Seating
Patterned cushions top a built-in bench under your window. It's a textured fabric seat with a throw blanket, featuring geometric and floral patterns.
Streamline Your Entryway with Low Natural Wood Cubbies
In an entryway, low-profile natural wood cubbies wrap around a corner. Their open shelves can tuck away shoes on one side and organize books or decorative items on the other.
Break Up Books with Artful Vases on Wood Shelving
Your collection of printed material can be separated by a custom wood display system that includes ornamental vases and art pieces. Layered plywood shelves hold stacks of novels and magazines, interspersed with a black vase of pink flowers and a graphic mug.
