It is not always easy to find the right shelving for you. Yes, there are plenty of shops that sell all manner of beautiful or cheap units that can be used to store any generic items you might have. However, no matter whether looks or price are important to you, if you look for solutions on the high street then there is a good chance that the resulting unit you buy will not be fit for exactly what you need it for.
Consider how much space is wasted on the majority of bookshelves. With the array of different sizes, from paperback to hardback to all those funny ones in between that no one really knows the name of, unless you cram books on top of each other in a higgledy-piggledy manner, then you are either going to waste a great deal of space or end up with something that looks a mess.
Therefore, choosing the right shelving for you is about knowing the items you have, the exact sizes and shapes of them, and in turn getting a unit that will accommodate them perfectly. Finding such an item may seem easier said than done, but it is actually easy to go online and design your own bookshelves to your own exact specifications and therefore get storage that suits exactly what you have in your home.
No two homes will be the same and therefore, other than in a few rare cases, generic storage units will end up being fairly impractical, being okay for many, but perfect for very, very few.
It is also worth remembering that the space the units take up will be important too, and you may well find that this approach allows you to make the most of your floor space too, or find the perfect units to take up room only on the wall and leave you valuable floor space for the things you really need it for.