In a tight living area, horizontal surfaces quickly disappear. This narrow 5-tier bookcase offers five tiers of vertical storage. It fits into those awkward, unused corners. You gain extra space for your items.
Check your floor plan for narrow gaps where it can sit. Ensure it fits through doorways to its intended room. This bookcase is a solution for anyone maximizing their living area.
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What it needs from the room.
This is a tall, thin bookcase: 15 inches wide, 13 inches deep and 56 inches high, so it takes a strip of wall narrower than most doorways and gives back four cubes of storage. Each cube is 13.5 by 13 by 12.5 inches, which takes paperbacks and most hardbacks upright. The whole unit weighs 37.5 pounds.
Check these before you order
- Measure 15 inches of floor width and 56 inches of clear height, including any coving or sloped ceiling at the top.
- Leave 3 inches at the bottom for the baseboard height, or it will not sit flush where the wall has one.
- Find the stud or buy the right anchor before you start: four anti-toppling kits are included and a 56 inch unit needs them.
- Check the shelf height against your tallest book. Each cube is 12.5 inches high, so anything taller lies flat.
And who it is not for.
A studio or a shared flat where the only spare wall is the strip beside a door or between two windows. It holds up to 165 pounds across the unit and the surface is waterproof, so it copes with a kitchen corner or a bathroom landing as well as a living room.
It is wrong for you if you have a long low wall to fill, because five narrow tiers will look like a column in the middle of it. It is also wrong if you cannot fix into the wall at all: at 56 inches tall the anti-toppling kits are the point, not an extra, and it should not be free standing in a home with small children or a cat that climbs.
The questions we get asked.
How much weight will it actually hold?
The maker states a maximum of 165 pounds for the unit. That is the whole bookcase, not each cube, so spread heavy things down low rather than stacking them all on the top tier.
Does it have to be fixed to the wall?
Four anti-toppling kits are supplied and the height is 56 inches against a 13 inch footprint, so yes, fix it. Illustrated instructions and the fixings come with it.
What is it made of?
Engineered wood in a natural finish, with a waterproof surface the maker describes as easy to clean. Assembled it weighs 37.5 pounds.
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