38.75" Double Tower Media Storage

I very rarely write reviews, but based on a few negative posts, I wanted to share my positive experience. The shelves came in a well-packaged box. This is not fine furniture, but is very well made from medium-density fiberboard (MDF) and sturdy. The laminate surface is very nice. The directions were clear and everything fit together nicely. I am fairly handy around the house, but not a professional. Still, it seems like this would be easy for almost anyone to assemble in less than an hour. For the quality, I thought the price is very reasonable. Plus, it's made in Canada (soon to be the 51st state), not China. I set it up a few days ago and put my CD collection in it, and last night my wife commented on how great it looked!

First of all this is particle board furniture and I'm reviewing it as such. I built two. If you want something nicer, wayfair has nicer and more expensive stuff. After I finished putting the two units together, they were sturdy and didn't wobble. A one star review I read said that they fell apart when they were carried up the stairs. I'm certain that if you pick them up by the top, they would come apart. The top is held on by a push in wooden dowel and one dowel that expands when you turn the cam. I had to carry my first one up the stairs and I was careful to pick it up by the walls and not the top or the bottom and I left the shelves out. I had no problem. I read another review that said the back was made out of carboard. The backs for mine appeared to be made out of something that I consider a step up from particle board. The instructions tell you to put the back on with the unit standing and some shelves in, probably to keep it square. I laid mine down face down and squared it up with a carpenter's square (you can buy one for probably 10-15 at home depot. A cheap one is fine). Until the backs are on you can wiggle the unit some to get it square and it's a lot less frustrating to locate and nail the back on with it laying down. If you don't have a square you probably need to put the back on it with the unit standing up and with shelves in it to get it square. A one star review criticized the unit for having a loose fit for the screws holding the bottom on thus causing the screws to strip. They are a loose fit to make them easier to screw in. I suspect if you use a power tool to put the screws in that they would strip in the particle board. Finally pay attention to how you orient the uprights before you start screwing them in. The one with holes on both sides goes in the middle. The two outside pieces are made left and right if you want the cam screw to face the inside where it won't be visible. The instructions don't tell you to watch out for this. When I finished my units had no wobble. I also like the fact that the base protrudes toward the front making it more likely, in my amateurish opinion, that it doesn't tip over. I didn't bother with the wall anchors and I liked not having to tear up my sheet rock. All the holes lined up and the shelf supports were either a push fit or a light tap fit. I'm no kind of handyman, yet the assembly was easy except for putting the back in. I probably spent 3-4 hours unpacking the stuff and putting 2 of them together. My major complaint is that the box was full of sawdust. My wife immediately had the vacuum out. The units had a strong wood smell which lasted for a day or two, which the wife hated. I thought it was ok. I thought the units looked nice when finished but I wouldn't consider them to be furniture. I never write reviews. I'm doing so in the case because I think some of the reviews were a little off base from my experience.

At this point, I've bought and assembled 4 Double Width, 1 Triple Width and 1 Quad Width Wall Storage Cabinets (each are separate product listings on Amazon), to fill half a room with media storage, and I've been satisfied with Prepac's product. Each of the cabinets arrived without anything but the most minor cosmetic damage. All of the proper parts, hardware and instructions have been included, and assembly has been relatively simple. A power drill has been helpful to get the longer base screws into all of the vertical panels, but I have used a manual screwdriver to get them in as well. The composite board these are made from is relatively dense, giving the cabinets some weight and durability. The included nail-on gliders on the bottom helped me get the cabinets in place without scratching the floor. The cabinets are strong enough to completely fill with CDs, DVDs and or blu-rays without any bowing, leaning, or other concerns with the build quality. They're strong and stable enough, as long as they're against the wall. NOTE: These are made to be at least placed against walls, if not fastened to walls. For stability, the bases protrude about 3 inches in front and almost 2 inches on each side, but not at all in the back, so if not at least placed against a wall, it can tip over backward pretty easily. I've arranged my room to place 2 of the cabinets back-to-back and that's been stable. As for the hardware included to fasten them to walls, people seem to complain about these, and prefer finding their own solution for that. I've been fine with setting them along my walls, and back-to-back. The most trouble I've had with assembly is properly lining up and nailing on the hard paperboard backings and fitting the metal shelf pegs into the interior holes, as some of them can be pretty tight. I've used light tapping with a mallet and learned not to push them in all the way if they're hard to get in there, and that's worked well for me if I need to remove them to adjust the shelves. My all-over satisfaction with all of the various Prepac cabinets has been generally high. They do the job well, but don't reach my highest ideal. I decided to go with these after reading reviews and considering the alternatives, this seemed like my best option without spending a lot more, having shelves custom-built, et cetera. One thing I'd have really appreciated with the double-width and triple-width cabinets is if they were taller by the height of 1 or 2 CD sized shelves. That would make the cabinets the best size for CD, DVD and blu-ray cases to be placed on shelves vertically, meaning 9-10 CD case shelves tall, 6-7 DVD case shelves tall, or 7-8 blu-ray case shelves tall. The way these are, if you space the shelves for the height of the cases, you can have 6 blu-ray-height shelves with room left over, or 5 DVD-height shelves with room left over for 1 shelf of CDs. If you're not storing CDs in there, you can have an extra shelf where you stack cases on their sides, but another 5 1/2 inches of height would have gone a long way. As these are, the height is only slightly over half the height of my walls, but they still offer a lot of storage. The quad-width cabinet is taller, meaning significantly more shelving for movies. Here are my notes on actual, real world storage capacity, using real disc cases, and ensuring they fit comfortably in the shelves without squeezing them in too tightly. For CDs, I used all standard single-width jewel cases for measurement. For DVDs, I used all standard-width DVD cases. For blu-rays, the cases range in width so often, and also often blu-rays are sold with slipcovers, in steelbooks, etc., I used the average single releases in my collection. If you're storing only the normal slim blue cases, you'll be able to fit more blu-rays on the shelves. Also, this reporting is based on storage similar to described above, without consideration for stacking cases in horizontally to use up the excess space, also without consideration for being able to place anything on top of the cabinets. 40 CDs per shelf: double width cabinet capacity (16 shelves) = 640 CDs; triple width cabinet capacity (24 shelves) = 960 CDs; quad width cabinet capacity (38 shelves) = 1,520 CDs 28 DVDs per shelf: double width cabinet capacity (10 shelves) = 280 DVDs; triple width cabinet capacity (15 shelves) = 420 DVDs; quad width cabinet capacity (26 shelves) = 728 DVDs 30 blu-rays wide per shelf: double width cabinet capacity (12 shelves) = 360 blu-rays; triple width cabinet capacity (18 shelves) = 540 blu-rays; quad width capacity (30 shelves) = 900 blu-rays I can recommend these cabinets to anyone who doesn't need anything too fancy. They do make my large collection look handsome, and they're good, stable shelves. They're pretty clearly composite board cabinets I bought and assembled, not pieces of hardwood furniture, but they're nice for what they are. They're available and affordable. After buying 6 cabinets of varying sizes and having no significant complaint about them, the Prepac cabinets get my stamp of approval.

I bought this CD storage tower for my mother for Christmas. She absolutely loves it. It is very sturdy and easy to put together. Notably, I want to give kudos to their customer service. We called December 26 because one of the side pieces did not have holes drilled in it. The company representative immediately sent out a replacement side piece that arrived within two weeks of calling. The packaging was impeccable, the piece arrived in perfect condition. I would highly recommend buying this CD tower from this company. I would definitely use them again.

This is perfect for what I wanted. I have thousands of DVDs and they were all in books. It was inconvenient and hard to store. So I decided I only need the DVDs themselves and wanted something that makes it easy to get to them! I love this and holds a lot. Its stability is a little shaky but they supplied a toggle to toggle to the wall. Super happy!

At first this seems like a good product, but I paid $108 for it and it's got some serious design flaws, however now that it is mostly assembled (save the backer board), I am not sure how I would send it back. But I am NOT happy about this purchase! My notes are in order of how they arose: 1. The black melamine finish is pretty good except for some quality control issues with glue residue. Not really a deal breaker 2. The bottom screw holes should be set up to be countersunk. It would be stronger, look better and you wouldn't have to add those tack glides which raise the unit of the floor and leave a dust accumulation area below. Thought about returning it as this point, but still it had the look I want, so I continued. 3. Most of the remaining assembly was easy...all the pre-drilled holes lined up fine. 4. But then I got to the the so called backer board. This piece is supposed to stabilize the unit, but instead of providing a piece that spans all three uprights, the backer board is four separate backer boards two of each are taped to each other to make a joint which would run up the center of each side of the unit. While not a great design, this would be ok, BUT....you then have to line these two taped backer boards up to each other and nail each of them into the SAME 5/8" wide center gable. That is asking way too much for self-assembly. This is practically an impossible task for a non-carpenter - especially as you have to do it with to unit standing so you can some shelves in there to keep it square whilst doing so! Even if I do manage to get it on straight the fact the board isn't going to provide the stability it should and would were it one piece. So now I have a CD until that I cannot completely assemble nor use because there will be no stability. Bottom line, the company who makes this need to resolve this issue: 1. The backer board should be a single piece (as it shows in the instructions!) - even if it's a piece with a fold in it. 2. And if they are unwilling to do that (because it probably costs more to package),change to design so that the center piece is double thickness which would make it easier to nail these floppy back boards into and have even a prayer of getting it straight!

I love this item so much and I am very happy that I purchased this item even though it wasn't what I had in mind.I was looking for a rack to hold my video games, but I also wanted it to look elegant and not cheaply made. This product is very well made and very beautiful, from the minute you walk into my living room you notice it. Best part is that it comes with interchangeable shelves that does not damage the design of the product. So you will be able to place what ever you like regardless the size and length. I read many reviews on this item before purchasing it and i have to agree with some of the things that was said. 1. It is very heavy, and huge! Its taller then me and I am a 5'4 female. 2. I notice in the reviews that a lot of people claim some of the shelves was not fully covered with the black paint. So I was prepared for that to be one of the problems I will have to face, but to my surprised that issued never occurred. It was completely covered with fresh paint, it had no marks or any white spots as mentioned so I am assuming that they took into consideration what the other customers was complaining about. 3. The instructions was not as easy to understand as I had hoped but they made sure to remind you to check if you received all the pieces before proceeding to put it together and if any was missing they had given you a number to contact. I really liked how they was willing to be so helpful, but I am also glad that I didn't need to call them. 4. Now this was almost a deal breaker; I purchase this item thinking it was meant to hold video games like a DVD rack but I to my surprise it was more like a book case. After building it and seeing how wonderfully it compliments the rest of my furniture plus the fact that I was able to change the shelves to what ever size I needed so that my games and limited/special edition cases can fit perfectly is what convinced me to keep it. 5. Also it is build to last!!! Besides that I honestly believe that this is an amazing product for that cheap price and once i get paid again i do plan on buying another one!

I have high standards for furniture and tend to not buy flat-packed furniture at all if I can help it. In this case I got tired of having my CD collection in bins and wanted a cheap, temporary solution for storing them while I finished plans for a more permanent shelving unit. At first I was pleasantly surprised with the quality. No scuffs or damaged edges, holes were bored at the correct size and in the correct place, the design of it is simple but effective. When assembled it's pretty sturdy (although I used wood glue where the side columns meet the top to add some additional strength). For anyone wondering exactly what they're getting, the sides are basically 5/8" paneled Melamine, whereas the shelves are finished in the same veneer but over MDF instead. And that's where the problems start. The undersides of the shelves and the undersides of the top and bottom pieces are exposed MDF. This thing off-gasses really horribly. It's been four days since I assembled it and when I open the door to the room it's in I'm hit with a wall of chemical smells (and this is with a window being left open). It's worse than Milwaukee Packouts. Had all sides of all the boards been veneered then this would be much less of an issue. The part of assembly that will also likely give people trouble is the backing board. You have to nail this to the back of the unit as the final step and I don't see a world in which the average person misses the sides or center column and bangs at least a couple of nails through the thin backing board. I used an 18ga narrow crown stapler for this which was much easier. Wall anchoring is also an issue. The wall anchor system is a screw set into the back of the unit, a screw into your wall, and a piece of wire between them. This is completely inadequate for something that's only the depth of a single CD. If you have curious cats then this is going to get knocked over very easily, and even if the wire prevents it from fully falling over, everything on your shelves is falling off. I added French cleats to the back of the unit and the wall to prevent it from falling. The final problem is the complete lack of leveling options for the feet. The feet are just tiny plastic pads that nail into the bottom. If you have totally level floors then this may be sufficient for you. Most floors however are not perfectly level, especially where they meet the wall. Having threaded feed that could be screwed in and out would help massively and wouldn't add much to the manufacturing process, they'd just need to bore four more holes on the bottom and add some t-nuts. I did exactly that and it helped dramatically. All in all it's a decent unit and I'm grateful I found something to finally get my CD collection displayed. But it was purchased so I didn't need to build my own right away and instead it's caused me to move that project to the top of my to-do list just because of the shortcomings of these. If you have a friend who has a saw, a drill, and a little bit of free time then just have them build you something instead.