![]() ![]() I switched over to single colors per column (for the office walls), and they become a bit more noticeable. After building a 5 x 7 pattern (for the bedroom's main wall), I found that you don't really notice the pattern unless you actively look for it. Way Basics storage cubes come in a variety of colors, and I spent many an hour drafting up cute little patterns and schemes in a drawing program. I haven't had them long enough to notice any sagging, but my guess is that it won't be a problem. ![]() With cubes, every horizontal shelf is reinforced either by the floor or the top of the cube beneath it. It was a habit of mine to flip my shelves, like a mattress, every six months or so. The fact that there are more "walls" to cube storage is actually a benefit in disguise: with most cheap bookshelves, your shelves will start to sag over time. Other conclusions and a happy-faced Morbus You can see the Plus-sized cubes in the first or second rows of the floor to ceiling photos. With six regular cubes and one plus-sized cube per column, I maximize the height for most of the books I own, while still allowing room for the various oversized items I have. Since the cubes fit into tinier nooks than the full-blown shelves, I was also able to fit a fifth column on the side, bringing my total up to 235″, nearly 5½ feet of extra horizontal space in the same footprint.įor floor to ceiling columns, something I could never do with department store bookshelves, the extra space gained is even larger. Replacing those shelves with cubes gave me 188″. For the bedroom's side wall, which had two three shelf units, I had 160.5″ of horizontal space. ![]() With the Way Basics cubes, I can get four shelves in the same space as a three shelf unit. For a three shelf unit, that's a total of 80.25″, or 133.75″ for a five shelf unit. A single shelf gives you 26.75 inches (″) of horizontal space. This is both because you only get a certain number of shelves (one of which is hardwired near the middle for stability) and because there tends to be only one optimal way to place them. If you look at my "before" pictures, you'll see the standard department store shelves I've had for years, with lots of wasted vertical space above the book tops. I've moved around cubes full of heavy books without mishap (and by supporting the required backboard, of course). The colored laminate hides any indication they're made of cardboard and, when they're properly built and have rested for 24 hours, they're quite sturdy. But, besides the weight, they seem indistinguishable from the standard MDF or particleboard shelves you can buy cheaply nowadays. You might be saying "cardboard?! adhesive?!", and you wouldn't be alone. You build a cube by sticking the pieces together with double-sided adhesive tape from 3M. The cubes are made out of recycled cardboard, which makes them quite light at 4.4 pounds each. (I'm not kidding, either - that was actually part of my stress-testing.) Though they don't lock together for stacking, wedging something into the remaining space provides enough stability that I've no fears about jumping four- or six-year-olds. These are Way Basics cube storage: six individual Storage Cubes and one Storage Cube Plus create a column that rises to about an inch and a half from my ceiling. I just couldn't back up enough! Cube storage is a go! This is one of the better attempts at using Photosynth. I had quite some difficulty trying to get a single image of the entire layout. ![]()
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