Wooden Shelving: The Basics

It's surprising how some smart shelving can transform the whole appearance of a room, and, with more of us turning to home improvements rather than moving house in the recession, a new shelving system, rather than a new home, could be just what you need. Take the garage. These days, a garage isn't just for storing the car - it tends to be an overflow area for everything you can't keep in the house. If you are looking to tidy up your garage, wooden shelves can be one great way of bringing at least a semblance of order to the chaos.

You may not have given this much thought before, but wooden shelving is an extremely efficient storage method. Wooden shelves take up only a small area, make good use of vertical space, and give you easy access to your things.

Wooden shelving doesn't have to be expensive, especially when you construct it yourself. Also, if you build your own wooden shelves, you'll be able to fit the exact dimensions of the area you are working with.

Plywood is a good choice for building strong wooden shelves. If you want solid boards, go for pine wooden shelving.

One tip for building wooden shelving is to build them ready for heavier loads than you intend using them for. After all, you don't know what other objects you may need to store on your wooden shelves in the future.

Plan your wooden shelving carefully to save time during construction. Find out how deep the wooden shelving can be without taking up too much space. You'll also need to decide on the height or the distance between wooden shelves.

Of course, there are lots of detailed wooden shelving plans, from simple to elaborate designs, available online, in books and magazines

And, it goes without saying, wooden shelves aren't just a smart storage solution for the garage. If for some reason your library has increased, you may be looking for wooden shelves to house books, or maybe CDs and DVDs as well.

The Shelfstore Difference

Shelfstore, from shelvingsystem.co.uk, is a wooden shelving system designed 60 years ago in Sweden, and we have been in the business of supplying wooden shelves for the past three decades. Our shelving system is in use across a wide range of domestic and commercial settings - from schools to offices and shops.

The clean, simple lines of our stylish Swedish design remain popular as times change, and mean that our kind of wooden shelving is never likely to go out of fashion.

The components of our free-standing shelving systems are made from durable, solid pine, which we sand and varnish. Each of our wooden shelves is able to carry a load of at least 100kg. (As a guide, heavy books taking up a metre's worth of space weigh around a third of that.)

The beauty of our system is its versatility - it allows you to create the arrangement you need, whether that's a complete library or a single, simple unit. Our shelving can be used for the storage of anything from larger items like heavy boxes to smaller ones like CDs. The system means that the upright absorbs all the weight.

The system allows you to position the wooden shelves wherever you wish, within seconds. This means that, if you eventually move house or decide to swap things around, dismantling and re-building our wooden shelving couldn't be easier.

Our shelving uses a unique support method. Steel shelf supports fit diagonally into the upright holes and the groove under each shelf, so that, the heavier the load, the more stable the shelf. The system allows you to position shelves where you wish on the uprights, and to move a shelf, in 5cm distances, in a flash.

And, if you need more shelves, you can add to your wooden shelving unit whenever you want to. You can even paint it if you like - just rub down the varnish with steel wool first.

Shelfstore also comes with a wide range of optional extras to complete the look of your wooden shelving unit. These include shelf covers to cap off the top shelf, backboards, cross braces, and fascias which screws on to the underside front edge of the bottom shelf.

We're flexible in terms of the delivery date of your shelving system - just tell us when you would like your order to be delivered, and we'll be only too glad to oblige.

If environmental concerns are important to you, you'll be glad to know that our wooden shelves are sourced from sustainable forests in northern Scandinavia. Incidentally, the colder climate there also means that trees grow more slowly, so the growth rings are closer together, making the timber tougher.

Give us a call our log on to the web site today, to find loads more technical information, and more about shelving system could be just the storage solution you were looking for.