Does your home or apartment have a window that you either hate or love? Maybe you’re looking for an economical way to give your plant’s extra sun or start seeds. No matter which scenario is yours, Hanging Window Shelves by Beautiful Views might be your solution. This post contains Amazon affiliate links.
About Beautiful Views:
Beautiful Views is a small company with a great idea. Their Hanging Window Shelves are simple, yet ingenious. They transform any standard home window into a beautiful display of plants, collectibles, or whatever your imagination can dream up.
The shelves are made from clear acrylic and are suspended by small diameter metal cables which are barely noticeable from several feet away.
The entire shelf system, when installed, appears mostly translucent when the shelves are empty. As a result, this setup is ideal for providing your indoor plants with the fullest sunlight possible, while still allowing sun to penetrate into the room.
The Beautiful Views Hanging Window Shelves can be used for (but not limited to) displaying the following things:
- Indoor plants
- Bonsai Trees
- Seed starter kits (windowsill size) <— My favorite use!
- Collectibles
- Awards
- Pictures
- Merchandise
- Decorations
- Anything else your wild imagination can dream up!
Installation:
Standard installation takes about 2 minutes… really! In fact, it will probably take you longer to remove all of the protective bubble wrap the shelves were shipped with, than to actually install them!
There’s a piece of painted (white) aluminum angle stock with holes for nails. You simply hang this bracket onto the upper window molding, and bang a couple of nails through the holes into the molding. You’re done!
It’s one of the easiest DIY projects ever!
Have window blinds?
Beautiful Views offers extension mounts for windows that have blinds. The extension mounts are installed directly into the drywall above the window molding, and the hanging bracket is screwed into those extension mounts.
This bumps out the shelves to allow for the extra space the blinds take up. There are even kits for windows that don’t have molding.
Custom Sizing:
If you’re thinking to yourself, “My window is pretty funky, it’s not a standard size, so I’m not sure if these shelves would fit”. I can confidently say from experience that Beautiful Views has excellent customer service, and they will work with you to find a shelf system that works.
They even make custom sizes! If your window really is THAT funky, where the folks at Beautiful Views tell you their shelves wont work with your window, chose a different window! They are honest and straightforward, caring more about your satisfaction than making a sale.
Adjustable:
The Hanging Window Shelves are easy to adjust by simply raising or lowering the support collars (with the included hex wrench) that are mounted to the cable. Beautiful Views even threw in a torpedo level to aid in leveling the shelves.
Everything you need to install and prepare your shelves for their first use is included by Beautiful Views. The instructions are comprehensive and easy to understand, with lots of pictures. I dare say “anybody can install these shelves”!?
Our Experience:
I’m using my shelves to house some new indoor plants and start seeds for this upcoming spring. I used to be restricted to starting seeds under grow lights in the basement because I had no window sills.
Therefore, I couldn’t utilize my bright south-facing windows. Gladly, I can now start much more seeds than I previously could fit under my lights. Plus, it’s not costing me any more money.
The quality of the Beautiful Views Hanging Window Shelves is top notch. I couldn’t find anything wrong with my shelves when they arrived.
All holes were fully de-burred, aligned properly, and were pre-drilled to the proper diameters.
Nothing arrived damaged because it was so well protected inside its shipping box. Plus, my custom order was shipped within 3 days of me placing it!
A typical Beautiful Views Window unit starts at just $129 and include FREE shipping!! You can purchase this product conveniently on Amazon.They are one of few companies with a perfect 5 star rating from over 250 happy customers!!
those are pretty!!! i think that my kittens would LOVE it.
I love the way these shelves look! I could really use some of these in my home for seeds too!
I like this so much better than my garden window!
This is an amazing idea, so happy you shared this!!! Thanks!
This is such a good way to have a window garden! I love the idea of these shelves.
That looks gorgeous! I could so wake up to that in my office every day.
That’s brilliant that they can be used on windows with blinds. I love that easy mounting fix!
That is great. It would be perfect for my herb garden
I absolutley love this! We have such a short growing season and such a long cold winter season…this is just what I need to keep my gardening glum away! To have something green and growing in my windows like this would be wonderful!
What a great idea. It looks so nice and really adds a lot of color to your windows. Thanks for sharing :)
WHen my toddler is old enough not to be fascinated with strings I would get this for my house. I love the idea and I can’t wait to do this.
Oh I agree, toddlers can be rough on items hanging in the window.
In the past we have prepared units for customers with small children that contained two sets of cables, a short cable that allowed them to use 2 shelves that would be out of the child’s reach and a longer set that would allow the use of 4 or more shelves to fully fill the window when the child gets older.
That Beautiful Views Window product is a great concept! Perfect for indoor plants!
I LOVE this! I wish I had a window in my kitchen I so want this!
Great idea! Love the windows, but my big fat cat would take it down or knock all my plants to the floor!
Milena, unfortunately some tabby’s are attracted to the shelves.
Recently a customer emailed me to let me know that the shelves were much sturdier than she thought they would be. Her 23 lb kitty ( not even going to go there, I’m just not sure 23 lbs can be considered a kitty ) “field tested” her shelves after someone mistakenly placed the “cat grass” ( not sure what that is, I’ll have to check and see if she lives in Colorado ) on the shelves.
The shelves held up great, but as you could guess, “kitty” did manage to displace some of the potted plants. Maybe we should just make a “shelf” just for the kitty : )
I love this idea! Will definitely be giving it a try!
What a great idea, I love those shelves. I never thought to do this!
These are really beautiful! I would love to have a few plants that I’m growing. I even love the decor element of hanging the plants at the window like that. Thanks for sharing with us!
That is neat! Such a great way to have a little indoor garden.
Wow, I’ve never seen anything like that before!
I love the way the shelves work. I wish I could do something like this in my home.
I thought bonsai plants would be too sensitive to that much son. But I’m sure you’re right though. I could imagine this would also liven things up around your home too.
Oh wow, what a nice plant display.
Oh I want!!! I hate living in an apartment on the first level. I feel like everyone looks in my windows so I always keep the blinds shut. With something like this I could let the light it and still have privacy and have the joy of having real plants!
Beautiful way to dress up a room! I never have plants because I’m afraid my kids are going to knock them down but this puts them up a bit higher or in a room they don’t go in. What a great idea!
Those shelves look really nice! Adds a great look to the rooms decor.
How do you purchase the window shelves?
Interested. How do I order this? Would Ike it for two rows.. what is the price?
Hello, I have added some links in the post to their store. Thank you : )