Customer Reviews

Visiondecor not Poundex

5 star:		(90)
4 star:		(54)
3 star:		(19)
2 star:		(8)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

This shelf is very modern looking, saves space, and keeps the room looking brighter and more open by eliminating the tradition boxy shape of a bookshelf. I'm enjoying it very much in my bedroom, but other buyers should take note that this bookshelf absolutely CANNOT hold heavy items on the bottom shelves. Because of the positioning of the screws on just one side of the bottom two (largest) shelves, heavy books will cause these shelves to rotate backwards to the point of breaking. I partially solved this problem by wedging 3 old textbooks underneath the bottom shelf, which now is holding about 60 pounds worth of my school books. The second shelf I could do nothing about, and is now holding a box of tissues and some magazines. The upper shelves are more stable (ironically, since they're the smaller ones), because of the more central positioning of the screws. So YES, it looks great! But be aware that this is not the most solid of bookshelves.

This shelf is not worth the price. The material is flimsy and lightweight. In my opinion, it would resale in your neighborhood garage sale for $19. I am very disappointed. I was charge over $30 for shipping and it took more than 30 days to arrive! I could have built my own shelf with that cheap material in the same time. The list price info says you save over $300. That has to got to be a misprint. Because its not worth that amount and I soon found out all sales are final, including rip offs!"

I must say that this picture does not do it justice. The depth of the bottom shelf is large enough to fit a small microwave. And the top shelf is not so narrow. The shelving space is very generous. This bookcase IS NOT intended to store hundreds of heavy books. It is not made out of oak or pine wood. However, if you're like me, and have a good 20 - 30 books with no place to put them, this bookcase is perfect. It does not take up a lot of space and is very appealing to the eye. A few books, a few decorative accents and you have a very nice looking bookcase for your home office.

I had been looking for leaning bookshelves for months, and most of them were priced somewhere around the $150.00 range. When I saw the Poundex shelves for a little over $40 - with good reviews, I was intrigued. I'm generally a bit skeptical of "a good price", but decided to take a chance with these and purchased two of them. They arrived at my home quickly,together, and very well protected. Best, opening the box (all the tape used) was more difficult to do than it was to put them together. I did it on my own and in less than 1 hour (would not have taken so long if I hadn't been distracted by my favorite t.v. show). These are BEAUTIFUL, sturdy, and a fantastic purchase at a good price. I would buy these again - they are good on their own..not just good for the price.

Great shelf, easy to assemble. Looks very modern, much better then a normal book shelf, will buy another one for another part of the house.

I have never bought furniture online but the price tag lured me to do so. I got the material shipped [free shipping] earlier than it was supposed to be shipped. The assembly was pretty straight forward and took less than 30 minutes to get it up.

It is much lighter than I thought it would be. It is very easy to move it from one place to another without any load. It definitely saves a lot of space and we use it to stack all my study material. Once you load it with your books, you have to take out the books to move the rack around.

I have a lot of books and hence I was a bit afraid to load it up and test the strength of the shelves. I tested it with a dozen big books on the lowermost shelf and it seems to hold it pretty well so far.

If you are looking for something less heavier to hold, for instance flowers or if you intend to use this in the kitchen, try
[...]- My neighbors use this in the living room and they just have pictures and some art.

Good value for the price, I rate it a perfect 5!

This book shelf is very attractive but, unfortunately, the fourth shelf collapsed within an hour of putting books on it. The books that I placed on the shelf were both paperback and hardcover, only 1 row, nothing unusual. I would not recommend this shelf set for books or anything with equivalent weight.

I have another one of these shelves. it's made by crate & barrel and it costs about 2.5 times as much. this one looks about the same. feels the same. and it's very easy to assemble. Note : on the instructions they would mention that you need 2 people or more (!) to assemble. I am not very good with assembling furniture but I had no problem doing this one all by myself.

The product was as described online. It arrived in perfect condition! Just took really long for them to mail it out! So if you need this product in a hurry....I would keep this in mind.

After two days of attempting to assemble this seemingly easy-to-assemble bookshelf (the problem was that the diagrams do NOT show you which direction the shelves are screwed), I get to the last step which shows a wall mount (to stabilize it), which mine did not come with. You can't just lean the thing against the wall unless you want massive black scratches on your wall and it to topple over.
I don't know what I'm going to do with this thing. I already threw out the box.

EDIT: Okay, it now occurs to me that these flimsy POS straps are the secure straps. Well, it would have been nice to add in a description that a drill is required. I do not own a drill, so, this entire piece of furniture is useless. There are no predrilled holes in the top of the bookshelf where you are supposed to wall mount it, either, yet there are predrilled holes everywhere else.