UTEX Kids Bookshelf, 3 Tiers Book Shelf and Storage for Kids Rooms, Kids Bookcase Rack Wall for Bedroom,Study Living Room,White

Love this book shelf
So stylish for my toddlers room. We love that we could mount it to the wall just in case my toddler try’s climbing it. I love the amount of shelves and how many books we can fit on it. It was easy to put together and mount to the wall.

solid, functional shelf but a few assembly quirks
I purchased the three-shelf version of this. Once I got it assembled and mounted, I’m very impressed with this shelf. (Caveats below.) The shelves are deeper than I had assumed, so several books fit in front of / behind each other and there’s still room to actually get them out, and there’s sufficient height to get picture books in and out too. (I had been skeptical that this style of shelf could possibly be as useful as it looked in pictures, but I was happily wrong!) It’s a sizeable shelf and holds a good quantity of books. And it’s a good height; my three-year-old can reach books on the top shelf (three-shelf model).Assembly was pretty clear and seemed fine, until two of the screws that connect one of the back cross-pieces to the shelf weren’t quite long enough or too easily stripped out the hole, so those two pieces wouldn’t actually attach. (It worked fine for the lower shelf, so it might have been user error, but then once it had removed enough material from the hole, there was no way to correct it.) It wouldn’t matter (both attach securely to the side pieces, so who cares if they attach to each other too) except that particular cross-piece was the one that you use to secure it to the wall. I figured it was *probably* still fine, as there are dowels connecting the cross-piece to the side pieces, and the entire rest of the thing is sturdily constructed around it to hold them all in place. But I did put an extra screw into the wall stud through the other, lower shelf’s cross-piece for stability and peace of mind. I also had an issue with the included wall anchor (it didn’t seem to expand and then just pulled right out), so I gave up on that and screwed into studs on both sides even though that’s not where the holes were. (I’m honestly astonished how few items like this have the holes at a distance that they can both be screwed into studs if you want to!) So I ended up using my own screws to secure it to the wall and secured at three points rather than two, though I had to drill holes for two of those myself as they didn’t line up with studs otherwise. But that worked well, nothing split, and the whole thing seems very sturdy now.One weird thing is that the side pieces have little spots cut out so it can go flush to the wall over (the small type of) baseboards, but then those pieces are mounted onto a box to add a little height and to make a surface for the bottom shelf, so the cutouts are in the wrong place and the box is what’s against the baseboards. I don’t think it really matters — it was still close enough — but kind of a weird design.

Sturdy
I love this bookshelf. It was so easy to build and install. It fits perfectly behind my son’s bedroom door!

Beautiful but flawed!
This bookcase is BEAUTIFUL but it is flawed. To install it properly, you really need to cut out any molding you have behind it. It is meant to be screwed in because without that, it stands very flimsy. However, if you have any decent size molding on the ground in your house, it can not be installed well. For the books to not fall out the back of the bookshelf, it needs to be FLAT against the wall. I ended up using a white board to glue on to the back to help with this. The bookshelf is beautiful, but could use some better features like notching out at the bottom for molding OR having the back of the unit extend some. Without a back, it is not usable.