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Our homes can full of interesting and unique features. It&#;s what makes them so different from the next home. Interior niches can be a part of these unusual features and sometimes it can be a challenge to figure out what to do with them.

Wall niches or alcoves can be a great way of creating a focal point. As well as injecting your personality in to the space. And even making practical use out of something that maybe considered a little &#;awkward&#;.

Interior niches or alcoves can be found all over the home, in living rooms, bedrooms, entryways and any other room in the house! Depending on the space you can turn your wall niche into an amazing feature. Here are some top ideas and inspiration for decorating and styling those home details!

Wall Niches Living Room

This beautiful arched wall niche has been given a subtle colour contrast. A cute pale pink pops out from the white wall with plenty of space to display books and knick knacks.

Another curved wall niche but this one is a little shallower in depth. An all white paint colour for the niche and the walls for a minimal look. Two simple shelves along the wall niche gives the focal point for the wall and storage.

If you have a deeper wall niche you can think of creating some hidden storage by making a cabinet on the lower third of the niche. Use shelves on the upper section if you have a few favourites you&#;d like to display rather than one big item or canvas.

This wall niche has been divided even further by separating the arch shape into two halves. Minimal styling completes the look with no hardware on the cabinetry.

Shelves don&#;t have to be used all the way up the niche. Even when the wall niche goes from the floor to ceiling.

Fireplace Niches

Empty spaces next to the fireplace need some consideration on how they&#;re designed. Using a different colour on the niche from the fireplace brings attention to both features. Niches on both side of the fireplace gives plenty of storage space.

For this living room design they&#;ve chosen to use the spaces either side of the fireplace in different ways. One side has a beautiful window seat and the other side utilizes the majority of the niche with shelving.

A really simple design for the living room space, using a low built in shelf along the back wall. The feature connects the fireplace and gives a dual purpose either side of the fireplace as a bench and shelf.

Bathroom

Bathroom wall niches are a great way of displaying your favourite decor pieces. Think about how you can style it and how it feels. This bathroom niche gives a spa like feel with thoughtful styling with only a few key pieces.

Hallway

Making the most out of an awkward corner in hallway can be put to some good practical use with a built in bench. Probably one of the best ways to keep things organized for the hallway area.

Bedroom Niches

A beautiful botanical wallpaper is used to highlight the inside of the interior niche beside the bed.

Go ultra minimalistic with a Wabi Sabi inspired look. Just by using two simple pieces you can create an impactful styling statement.

A bold and bright colour block can bring some fun and creativity into a simple space.

Some salvaged wood has been used to create a unique wall niche. The wood adds warm and texture in the neutral space.

Big Wall Niches

If you have a big and deep wall niche, bang in the middle of the wall there&#;s not much way of hiding it. It&#;s better to put the interior niches to practical use!

I love the vintage feel of this area! The black chalk paint and the dark wood together and the thrifted style pieces along with the wicker basket look great.

An all minimal styled nook with live edge wood shelves to add character.

Create a sit down area with the deeper wall niches, as a home office space or a coffee breakout area.

Measure up and source a free standing piece of furniture that will fit perfectly in the recessed wall niche and style accordingly!

Top Tips For Styling

• Styling your niche with a framed photo or flowers is great way to highlight the niche and the decor. Just make sure that whatever piece you use isn&#;t filling up the whole niche. A good rule of thumb is to fill it two thirds of the way.

• You can also decorate the wall niche in a different way. By just painting the wall niche the same colour as the rest of the room it fades in to the background. This way you can bring attention to other features in the room that you feel are more important.

• If you want to have some fun you can colour block your niches. Using a contrasting colour to the colour of your walls. Still add some decor or a frame to the area. Otherwise you&#;re just highlighting the area for no reason other than it being an interior niche. Give it a purpose.

• In the same way that you can use a play on colour to highlight the niche you can add a wallpaper to the inside instead.

Have you got any interior niches in your home? What have you done with them? Let me know in the comments below.

Chloe

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The recessed wall niche has been a mainstay since the Classical Age, the mark of a truly stately home and world of riches within.

These top 40 best recessed wall niche ideas can display all your own worldly treasures, from valued art pieces to eye-catching flora & fauna, and shine a light&#;both real and metaphorical&#;on the nuances that set your home apart from the others.

Traditionally mounted in a tall and slender curve, the recessed wall niche can now be seen in a variety of shapes and sizes, standing alone or in a series. Perfect along a staircase or hall, recessed wall niches add depth and gallery-level ambience to any space, as well as act as safe and convenient placekeepers for your fragile objets d&#;art.

When the precarious coffee table or shelf won&#;t do, the recessed niche strikes a subtle balance between decor and look-don&#;t-touch insurance against accidents. You&#;ve worked hard to build the home you and your guests now enjoy, and what better way to show off your signature pieces than with an exquisitely crafted wall niche or nook?

Centuries of use have finalized the recessed wall niche&#;s place in mainstay architecture, and your own variation will no doubt prove that the time-honored classic needn&#;t be outside the moment.

Your modern abode is ready to be shown off in all its facets, and the recessed niche&#;or series&#;is ready to rise to the occasion, no matter the occasion.

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The wall niche, or in other words a recess in the wall, is a small corner that can have many functions. We have all these little corners in our living room, bathroom, bedroom or elsewhere that you never know what to do with!

To help you in your research, we present you our special selection of wall niche optimization examples.

Wall niche: original ideas and tips

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The possibilities of designing and decorating a wall niche are numerous. First of all, you have to ask yourself: do we need additional storage space, or do we want to decorate these small empty spaces? We can, of course, do both at the same time if the size of the space allows it and if we want it.

Wall niche: transform it into practical storage space by installing shelves

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Wall niches are often located in an inconvenient space: at the entrance, under the stairs, in the shower stall or elsewhere. Finally, when we say "impractical", this does not mean that these spaces can not be made useful! Arranging a dressing room or additional storage under the stairs, if possible, is a wonderful idea for those who want to maximize every little corner of their home.

Niches murales: optimize and decorate the space under stairs

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In the kitchen, the wall niches are used to store practical and decorative objects: utensils, pots, containers, dishes, flowers and herbs pot and many more. Look at this beautiful industrial style kitchen whose niche has been transformed into designer storage shelves:

What to do wall niches in the kitchen?

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Often, the wall niche can be integrated and transformed into a worktop and backsplash. This was the case of the kitchen photographed below:

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In the dining room, the niches are also transformed into shelves that allow the storage of dishes and the installation of a plant decoration, for example.

Ideas for decorating niches in the dining room

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The wall niche can easily replace the library in the dining room or living room. Just install shelves and you're done! The wall reinforcement below has been perfectly integrated into the decor of the dining room. The owners of this space have installed cupboards and open storage shelves.

Ideas for optimizing a niche in a modern dining room interior

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Optimizing space is important for living comfortably. Privilege functionality is essential. Paying attention to every detail allows the creation of a zen and neat atmosphere.

Create a modern and practical library in the living room

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The niches that are near the fireplace or your fireplace can act as very practical spaces to store the wood, as shown in the picture below:

The niches are very practical for storing the wood

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Here is another living room space that has turned the wall niche into storage space for the wood of the fireplace. Finally, the fireplace, too, was designed in this same wall reinforcement. If your wall niche is deep enough, it is quite possible to install an indoor fireplace. This will make your winter evenings warmer and warmer. It's wonderful to meet friends around the fire and enjoy a good mulled wine!

A niche placed above the fireplace that is used to store the wood

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In the living room or in the bedroom - for both adults and children - the large niche is transformed into a practical and comfortable work area or reading area. Just install a few shelves, a desk and a chair. Make them yourself or buy them, it depends on your desires and your DIY skills. We advise you to take the measurements of your niche and make shelves and your desk yourself. In this way, you are sure that your niche is perfectly optimized to measure. To make your shelves and a small office, you can use plywood or wooden pallets.

Idea of ​​optimizing a wall niche in the living room: turn it into a work area

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Who said that niches are always small? Look at this large niche, located next to the staircase that has been designed as a comfortable and modern reading and resting area:

Develop a cozy and cozy reading corner, we love it!

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Here's another example of how to design a reading and working corner in the modern bedroom:

A reading corner and a modern workspace, source: Royal Roulotte

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Place a small wooden desk, chair or comfortable chair, decorate the floor with an original rug and create a practical and modern workspace like this:

Workspace and modern storage space

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The wall niches can be transformed into a wonderful headboard or storage space. Storing decorative items or creating a small library for your favorite books: anything is possible! Look at this bedroom designed in white, yellow and very light gray with wall niches that have been imagined as practical spaces for storage and decoration:

Niches as a headboard and storage space

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What's going on in the bathroom? The niches in this room, essential for any living space, are often optimized as shelves to store cosmetics or towels and place decorative objects.

Bathroom ideas: storing beauty products

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Here is an elegant and classic layout where all the walls, including the niche and the floor are covered in white marble, look that it is beautiful:

Marble bathroom and practical wall niche

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Finally, without doubt marble is timelessly beautiful and always very popular, unfortunately dressing all the bathroom in marble requires some investment. And yet, it's beautiful Fortunately, there are perfect imitation marble solutions like cement tile.

Marble bathroom with two wall niches optimized as storage spaces

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The wall niches next to the bathtub can also be used as practical storage spaces. Look at this stylish bathroom whose wall niche has been marvelously optimized with practical and decorative objects perfectly matched to the wall decor consisting of two black and white frames:

A nicely furnished and decorated niche placed next to the bath

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Rustic and modern bathroom: the niches turn into shelves

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It is possible to design and dress the wall niches at the same time as the wall and the floor. This will melt them with all the interior and all the decor already present.

Small niches that are used to store the shower gel and shampoo

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Bathroom idea

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If your interior seems too white or you simply want to add an original decorative accent, it is possible to design your storage niche in a contrasting color with the rest of the interior, as shown in the picture below :

A niche dressed in original tiles and contrasting with the white wall

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It is also possible to illuminate the wall niches of your bathroom and create an original light spot. As we already mentioned in a previous article, the lighting in the bathroom is seen soft and discreet. The niches are then ideal corners to place a small light that will bring an original touch to the whole interior. It is possible to put adhesive LED strips or a light string. Be careful not to wet them!

Niche optimized and lit up very slowly: what elegance!

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If you have a wall reinforcement in your bathroom next to your bathtub, use it to store your products and install candles. When you take a long bath, you can also put your cocktail!

Niche next to the bath in a modern bathroom

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If the niches are located in the entrance of your house or apartment, it is possible to turn them into storage pockets or simply decorate them with plants and flowers, as shown in the picture below. below:

The wall niches in the entrance: to decorate or decorate?

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Here is a niche, on the image below, which has only an aesthetic function: place a frame with a nice family photo, decorate with flowers and candles. This deco solution integrates with all rooms: entrance, living room, dining room. Decorating with family photos is a very good idea. It will warm your heart and will always put you in a good mood! Ah, good memories

Idea for decorating a wall niche with flowers and a framed photograph

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If you want to light your niches at a low price, in any room, candles, inexpensive and easy to find everywhere, are a very good choice. Just put a few and you're done!

Decorate with candles: practical, aesthetic and above all - very romantic!

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A niche dedicated to deco with candles, an empty niche and the last welcoming a plant and a vase - here are three universal optimization ideas!

Decorate the niches with candles, it's romantic!

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And why not use your wall reinforcement to create a mini bar? Nothing's easier ! Put away your bottles of alcohol, your glasses, some decorative objects and create your own personal bar.

Idea of ​​decoration of a wall niche with glass bottles

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The large niche allows the organization of a comfortable work space

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Furnished and decorated, the wall niche below makes the interior of this living room a more cocooning idea. The books were perfectly arranged, there was even room for two candles and a small bouquet. Below, the inhabitants of this space decided to put away the wood for the chimney.

Idea optimization wall-mounted living room

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We love this idea of ​​painting a storage niche in a color already present in the room, as is the case of this modern dining room interior:

Idea of ​​optimization and decoration of a niche in the dining room

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Six welcoming wall niches two vases and four plants - a very symmetrical and elegant decoration, look:

Small spaces, small storage, small plants

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To highlight the objects that decorate your niches, it is possible to install small lights as was done in the interior below:

Three niches in a large open space lit and decorated with vases

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In the living room, niches are often used to place decorative objects such as potted plants, vases, books and others.

Niches painted in white that contrast with the large wall in matt black

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Use the niches to store these accessories? It's a very good idea ! Organize a mini dressing room with wall reinforcement. Install a curtain or sail if you do not want to have your accessories exposed all the time.

Storing business in the bedroom is convenient!

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Do you like reading and you never have enough space to store your book collection? The niches are easily transformed into a library - in the living room, in the bedroom or even in the hall.

Practical wooden headboard that serves as a bookcase for storing books

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The best way to use a niche located above the headboard - turn it into a library. You can also put a reading lamp. In this way, you will not even need a bedside table.

Large, optimized niche in the bedroom

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The bedroom, in the image below, has no wall niches strictly speaking. They are part of the wall insulation and false ceiling that were installed later. The result is obvious: behind the bed, a practical headboard and storage niches were formed.

Niche transformed into practical headboard and storage space

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This is not the case of the interior below whose wall niches were obviously conceived at the same time as the construction of the space:

Idea of ​​optimizing space in the bedroom

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Idea of ​​optimization and storage for the bedroom

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In the child's or adolescent's room, the niches are most often arranged as a small library or a space for practical games and work. Above the bed, the niche turns into a headboard.

Create a reading and games space for your child

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Here are some ideas how to optimize a wall reinforcement in the child's room:

Create a space for games and reading convenient and comfortable

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Children's room: any space can serve and become practical

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Optimize, store, decorate: it's simple!

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Niche decoration entrance

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