Northville Cube Bookcase

I am very happy with the bookcase I purchased. It was the size I wanted and was very easy and convenient to assemble.

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As a person who is not very good at building furniture (literally only had experience building a floor standing TV stand before this which was really hard for me!) I managed to get this together in about 1 hour and 20 mins. This is because I missed an important step in making the shelves sturdy by not adding the small wooden bits between the shelves for one section of it, I thought the screws would be enough but turns out they aren’t you need to wooden parts to make it sturdy all the way through so I had to unscrew part of it and start again. Just as an FYI you need a screw driver and a hammer as well but all other parts come with it. I didn’t have a hammer so I didn’t nail it to the wall as per the instructions which I think would have made it even more sturdy but I was pretty happy without doing this. I also didn’t put the back panels on as I didn’t have a hammer but because I bought storage cubes to slot into some of the squares I didn’t feel like I needed these as aesthetically I preferred this look. However, if you want to put anything really heavy on this unit like a TV or imac I’d recommend nailing it to the wall otherwise it still holds well with heavy books and other electronics. I also think it looks better horizontally rather than vertically. I bought the storage cubes separately the dimensions of the cubes are 26.5 cm x 26.5 cm x 28 cm. I was super proud of myself for getting it up as I’m hopeless with these things! Really happy with the end look :) super quick delivery took 2 days to get to London.

Easy to build but paint work was abit dodgy and was given discount off to save returning it

Perfect size to fill the gap of my fireplace, well made unit and looks great! Really pleased with it.