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Im moving soon and have to say goodbye to my built in shelves 🥲 how do y’all calculate how many standalone shelves you need to buy? I’m thinking of the ikea Billy shelves if anyone has those
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Anonymous 23h

I always buy shelves based on the space rather than the books. Is your new place going to have to same amount of room for shelves as your current one?

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Anonymous 23h

maybe start with measuring the width, height, and depth of each shelf (if it’s one large unit, just divide the length in thirds or something to reflect 3 individual units) and compare your measurements to the billy ones or target ones (similar to billy but no option for additional shelves). then if you really needed to, i’d count all the books and divide it by say 5 (the amount of shelves per unit) to see how much would fit on each unit (i think. i suck at math)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23h

It has more, it’s a small house with an extra bedroom that I’m converting into a library/reptile room (worried about humidity tho so that may change). Rn I have a little nook built from knocking down the wall between my room and the attic above the garage about 8x8 ft. Because of this the room has a triangular back wall and all the shelves are different lengths, widths, and heights so it’s hard to get a good estimate. And I’m running out of space so some shelves have two rows of books

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 22h

No don’t worry, if I was good at math I’d probably have figured this out already 😅 all my shelves have weird dimensions and I have a lot of books so was trying to see if there was a better way before I bored myself counting them all

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 13h

In that case, I would recommend getting as many shelves as you think will fit comfortably in the new place. It doesn’t hurt to have a little extra space to display things or for future books, and if you end up with one shelf too many for the room, you can always put it in another part of the house🤷‍♀️

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