Contemporary Home Office Cube Bookcase Display Shelves
List Price:
$399.99
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Product Details
- Home base Office
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Product Description
- Dimension: 55"L 12"D 68"H
- Devour: Mahogany
- Material: Wood
- Contemporary Relaxed Office Cube Bookcase Display Shelves
- Untainted lines and functionality describe this home office cube bookcase.
- Bookcase features 14 openings that showcase books and your favoriteIn generalcollectibles
- Item is designed to be practical in use and to embellish your home decor.
- Matching Desk, Send in Cabinet and Credenza are available separately.
- Uncontrived Assembly Requested.
Customer Reviews
Plenty of storage with a unique design
The piece was put together with no problem, although the instructions were mostly in pictures. Just lay out all the pieces first and decipher them from each other, and you should be fine.
I was going to leave the backings off and have hollow cubes, but the backs turned out to be necessary if you want any kind of stability. The shelves are slightly adjustable with 3 holes positions for each, so you can get one or two extra inches in certain cubes if needed. The shelves could have fit better as they just set in place and slide left to right about a quarter inch.
If you are placing this bookshelf on bare floor, you will want to have felt sticker pieces prior to building it. The screws at the bottom do not set in deep enough, and they will scratch your floor if you are moving or sliding the piece ever. Penny or nickel size felt sticker pieces do just fine.
For the price, this piece does its job and it provides a good bit of storage. Overall, it looks nice with its unique shape, and its dark color hides its minor flaw of the shelves not fitting as snuggly as they could have.
2010-08-18
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
Poor Quality
I thought that this was going to be awful to put together from looking at the pieces, but it was not that bad. The only frustrating part was the fact that it did not state the middle tall shelf had a specific UP, so I inevitable put it in upside down, not discovering this mistake until the entire piece was put together and tried to place the shelves in (which would not sit level because of this).
My main grip with this product is the number of blemishes that are on the wood. Very poor quality control.
2010-07-30
| Angela M (Virginia, USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 2
Terrible Build Quality, Unique Bookcase
As echoed by other reviewers, this was the most frustrating piece of furniture that I've ever had the displeasure of putting together.
Material quality is middling, instructions are poor, end product is middling, but it ends up looking pretty nice.
I'm the type of person that other people come to when they can't put furniture together and I still had MULTIPLE problems putting this together.
1) For the descending pyramid shelves, there are 3 shorter pieces of varying sizes and 3 tall pieces all the same size (for the two left shelves).
2) These three tall pieces have a "left-right-center" relationship that is not labeled, not clear, not indicated in the instructions.
3) Furthermore the "center" piece has a "north-south" orientation that is not labeled, not clear, not indicated in the instructions (this is the inexcusable one)
4) The screw-holes are not counter-sunk on the bottom or the top. I ended up partially counter-sinking the top screw-holes so I didn't have dumb screws sticking 1/16" out of the top with a sticker on top. On the bottom, I covered them with felt and plan on not dragging it across the floor.
IF YOU DO BUY THIS:
1) Separate the 3 tall pieces. Determine "left-right-center" by looking at the unfinished *back* of the bookshelf. There is a lap/groove that the cardboard back fits into. Make sure that the center piece has no raised lap/groove protrusions.
2) Determine the "north-south" orientation of that "center" piece. I think the only way to determine this is with a damned tape measure. Make sure that the height from the bottom-most holes to the ground are consistent otherwise you will be disassembling the whole thing, popping the nails out of the back, forcing the glue off the top and bottom dowels, flipping, regluing, renailing the center piece and generally getting a lot more frustrated than necessary.
There are similar products by IKEA that can get you a similar effect and are of a much higher general build quality.
All that being said, the end product ends up looking fairly nice.
It would be easy for this product to get four stars:
1) Label the pieces vertical pieces: 1,2,3,4,5,6.
2) Put an "up arrow" on piece #2.
For five stars it would have to be made of more solid material and the shelves would have to fit better between the vertical supports.
If you'd like to continue the pyramid effect, you can get the IKEA "Billy" 15" wide shelf (these shelves are ~10" wide) and slide to the left. There is a slight color variation but it's in the same general tone and not very noticeable. This approximately doubles the amount of linear-feet of shelving if you have a lot of books. For *yet more* storage, you can make sure your ceiling permits it and get another Billy with the extra ~15" tall top-extender. I haven't had the need to go that far but it's good to know there will be a good-looking option for expanding.
2010-05-27
| ramses0 (Dallas, TX) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 2
Best Priced
I've seen this exact same bookcase go for $400. It is beautiful, sturdy, and contrasts wonderfully against my eggshell colored wall. I love it! The pieces weren't always labled clearly so be careful when building. Also, make sure all the holes are level before you nail the back on! The middle of the three tallest boards have the same number of holes on the ends so just be careful. Instructions were fairly straight forward. Again, great price. Love it! :-D
2010-03-29
| Esther A. (Phoenix, AZ) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
New IKEA EXPEDIT Shelving Unit/Bookcase/Display Shelf b 
: $200.00 
