Blog Teebooks®
Find inspiration
Category: Buyer’s Guides & Comparisons
-
The figure most guides quote is 25 to 30 cm, but it’s overkill for the way people actually shelve books today. A B-format paperback measures 13 cm wide, while most standard hardbacks are only slightly deeper. Once you’ve taken stock of what’s on your shelves, the case for a deeper unit gets thinner than expected.…
-
How much weight can a bookshelf hold? It depends on the shelf. A compact wall-mounted bookshelf may have a maximum recommended load of 7 kg, while a deeper, heavy-duty metal shelf can support up to 40 kg on a solid wall with suitable fixings. But weight isn’t the whole story. To choose the right bookshelf,…
-
A home library is not a single bookcase pushed against a wall. It is a planned space, sized to the books you already own and to the ones you intend to keep buying. The difference between a corner that holds your novels and a room that actually reads as a library is mostly down to…
-
A standard 80 cm Billy is rated for 30 kg per shelf. A tightly packed row of hardbacks weighs about 40 kg. That gap is where the slow bow starts, and it pushes plenty of owners who once lined a wall with Billys to look elsewhere. The five Teebooks lines below answer the problem with…
-
Half the wall-mounted bookshelves sold online never make it past their first year of hardback books. Brackets bend, plasterboard gives way, or the shelf itself bows under its own load. Before you compare prices and finishes, the useful question is what separates a shelf that holds 20 books over a decade from one that ends…
-
You’ve seen the photos: a stack of books that seems to float against a bare wall, with no shelf in sight. The look has been everywhere on Pinterest for years, and a dozen brands now sell something they call an invisible bookshelf.