The bookcase is very narrow & if you can remove the shelving, store the contents elsewhere & paint a feature colour or put some wallpaper in the back that suits your decor style (woven grass cloth e.g) & just have a painting or mirror there to simplify what is an entry point to your living room & kitchen. A narrow shelf or two in a dark timber or glass with console display items or a vignette of framed photos could be more decorative too. These canvas photo prints stretched over a frame could look good.Or if you need the space for storage some doors or drawers could be custom made to suit unless you start again. This niche idea could be built in too with lighting added.

Hello. I'm doing renovation whole apartment and also built in wardrobe (hinged door) for two room. We had argue about the internal drawer size for each wardrobe. One wardrobe cabinet internal size is w 1117 x d 600 and second is w 1063 x 510 The builder brought the internal drawers way too smaller than actual size of cabinet. he says that it is how usually doing for hinged door wardrobe. so actual internal size of wardrobe is w 1117 x d 600. the drawer size is 900 x 300. Another wardrobe is w 1063 x 510 and brought 850 x 330 drawers. ( this is all bottom drawers) The problem is that the inside drawer is too small and has a big handle like kitchen drawer. The wardrobe drawer should have no handle as it is inside of wardrobe and need to bigger and fit into actual space of cabinet. The depth of drawer is only half way of actual size of cabinet depth. the width size also about 5 to 12 cm is empty gab between actual wardrobe panels. It is nearly half of actual cabinet space is just empty. Finally the builder admit that the depth size made wrongly as there is about 30 cm empty gab but not the width size so they want to make a deeper drawer but keep width between panel about 5 to 10 cm. The builder says rest space will cover up by the panel and also keep arguing that the drawer is small because they need to give a space for door hinge because this one need to install next to drawers. Door hinge is only 2 cm wide and 2cm depth. I do understand door hinge but still too many space is empty. Therefore, I have asked him to make a drawer for right size of cabinet (make drawer size wider and deeper) and put the door hinge between drawer. But the builder refuse to make new one as they need to make whole new drawers and says that it is standard to keep space between 5 to 10 cm between door, panel and drawer all around and cannot compare with other brand such as ikea or freedom. Simply they said they cannot do it. Also, he argues that I should request make drawer to be back to back size before making. I request standard drawers and sent him the pictures before making like https://www.instagram.com/p/B-MRD7XlUfi/. Total 16 drawers was made wrong size. every drawer has different size gabs. My question is that is true to have gab between 5 to 10 cm between drawers and actual size of cabinet due to door hinge? This should be the custom built in wardrobe.

@Kate i like your suggestion of custom trimming a door. But how can I install so that it looks just like a wall? I did some measurements. 19” between wall and side of nightstand. 38” between wall and bed. Each nightstand is 19”, total of bed with nightstands is 106”. floor to ceiling 8’, headboard to ceiling 65”. how Wide should I make the panels? would it be a good idea to use ready made kitchen cabinet doors like ikea but I would not use handles? (As they are for frameless kitchens)? They have a simple flat white Design, inexpensive of all the cabinets I think HÄGGEBY https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/haeggeby-door-white-50267172/ Particleboard, Polypropylene, Foil, Melamine foil, Foil, Melamine foil and make my custom frame. I mainly want shelves.

What do you like about the second picture? I like both pictures. But the first one gives you a sense of the layout of the whole wall whereas the second one does not, it doesn't even show the whole tv. I'm no expert but looking at the first picture even though there are different elements in it the sides line up. reading down the wall, there's a wide shelf, another wide shelf, a narrow shelf and the tv side by side, and a wide drawer unit. On one side is a vertical unit. It has variation and it's not symmetrical yet somehow it looks, what would you call it, ordered? Taking a guess, the second one might be symmetrical, which is simpler and works well. I thought of something else. If you want to put up floating shelves and definitely if you want to put anything with weight on them, you need to attach them to the studs in the walls, so you need to find where those are before you can make any decisions. Same for floating cabinetry.