I’ve moved twice since then, but even as I’ve gained square footage, friends with drills, and more money for my dream furniture, I have never been interested in replacing my bookshelf. It was only two hours later, when my roommate got home, that the piece received its first compliment. It arrived four days later with clear assembly instructions, and about 20 minutes after I opened the box, the unit was holding all my books. After measuring my space to figure out which of the five available sizes would be the best fit, I placed an order for the smallest model. Photos showed it holding garbage bags and antifreeze, but its 4,000-pound capacity suggested it could hold plenty of books as well. The industrial shelving unit in a cheery red - a color that reminded me of Arad’s Bookworm - was hiding amid a sea of steel and black shelves in Wayfair’s “Garage Storage and Shelving Units” department.
Within hours, I found exactly what I was looking for. Remembering this kernel of wisdom, I changed my approach and began to look not for bookshelves but simply for any unit that was tall, wide, shelved, and strong enough to hold all the books I needed to find a home for. A golf rack can become an entryway organizer a kitchen shelf can become a laptop stand a power tool can become a massage device (or a shower cleaner). If I’ve learned anything from tasteful friends or reading the Strategist (both now and when I was searching for bookshelves two years ago), it’s that you don’t have to use products the way they are designed to be used.
Sandusky bookshelf 2 tier cracked#
But as I continued to browse, I kept running into the same problem: Every good-looking, affordable bookshelf I saw had comment sections full of complaints about cracked wood, chipped paint, and painful assembly. Still, I was determined not to give up and become That Person with thigh-high stacks of books along the edge of their floors, nor That Other Person who settled for the Ikea Billy bookcase that I (and everyone else) had in my college bedroom.
Sandusky bookshelf 2 tier install#
But since I’m a renter, their cost - and the effort it would take to install (and eventually uninstall) them - just didn’t make sense. Aware that I was inching closer to this tipping point with every title I bought, I began to bookmark bookshelves while I shopped online for books, keeping tabs on Ron Arad’s Bookworm, the Vitsoe 606, and CB2’s Stax bookcase via tabs saved in my browser. A couple of years ago, I reached a point where I had too many books and too little storage for them.
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