Bookshelves or expedit?  (19 Posts) susannahmoodie Tue 29-Apr-14
13:58:18  We are having kitchen extended to accommodate dining
table and going to convert existing dining room into second
living room/playroom. Most of dcs toys will be in there plus
books.  I want to have bookshelves put in along the back wall,
perhaps get a joiner to build them. Dh thinks instead we should
just get big expedit boxy units from ikea for the whole wall.
Then we could use some of the squares for books but others for
storage, toys etc.  We already have a few if the smaller expedit
units in the boys' bedrooms and IMO they just seem to attract
clutter. I'm more and more convinced that what we need is not
less storage but less stuff!!  I think books look nice on
bookshelves and we'll have to keep them tidy as they'll be on
display.   Thurlow Tue 29-Apr-14 14:04:37  We have two Expedit
cases in our dining room, so 16 squares, four of which are
cupboards/drawers. I like them a lot and you can fit a
ridiculous number of books into them