REGILLER 5-Wire Shelving Steel Storage Rack Adjustable Cabinets,Standing Storage Shelf Items for Laundry Rest room Kitchen Pantry Closet(Black,11.8″ D x 16.6″ W x 53.5″ H)

The Saga of The Cat, The Mouse, and the Shelving Unit…
It’s a tale as old as time….The Cat, Oliver, is a rather tubby cat but for all his blubber, he’s one heck of a mouser.Of course, he mouses at his best at 3 AM.Of course the rodent in question has decided to be in the vicinity of my washer, either in the wall, or under the floor or some such other nonsense.Now, normally it’s not an issue. He mouses and life goes on, even for the mouse. Unless he’s in a decapitating mood.Well, in this particular case, the area the hunt was occurring was between my washer and dryer.Okay, you say, no biggie.Well, not ok. Big biggie!See, because my house is old, like 175 years old, storage is an issue. Like we have none. So I have to improvise and in this case, in the area between laundry machines, I had placed those cute wooden crates that are stackable and so 5 years ago. This created a hole like area behind the crates. Perfect for fat chubby cats to stalk what I’m assuming are sleek mouses.Now, because of the crates, Oliver, bless his heart, couldn’t climb out of the hole like void crated by the crates and implements if laundry once he jumped into it.So after Oliver’s attempting to extricate himself, unsuccessfully, and me having to rescue his fat self at 3 AM on a nighly basis, I finally came to the conclusion that I needed to figure out a different, better solution to the cat and mouse shenanigans going on. I needed a Shelving Solution.One that could hold laundry paraphernalia and one that Fatty….oops…Oliver could either go under or climb over on his quest to slay the mouse.So turning to Amazon because they’ve never let me down, I started to look for units and got caught up in fancy units with wheels, ones with basket like shelves, ones that were….all to big, once I realized that I needed to measure the area I wanted to put the shelving unit in.So I measured, refined my search and voila! I found this unit. In white no less to natch my kitchen/laundry area. And according to the item information helpfully listed buy the seller, it would fit!I was in!I promptly ordered it and it came lickety split.It was very well packaged so it arrived in perfect condition. It included, all the parts and an instruction sheet. I was thrilled.Oliver was thrilled.The jury is still out on if the mouse is thrilled….This is an awesome shelving unit! I got it in white as stated before and it looks really nice. I added some non skid shelf liners I bought from Walmart on a whim. For those wondering what the floral prints are, they are Pioneer Woman brand. I thought they’d look nice and keep things from getting stuck or falling through the wire shelvesNow, for the pros mixed with the cons: the unit is well made and sturdy. The feet are adjustable as are the shelves although I recommend that you plan out your desired configuration as you go and before you put it all together because you have to take it apart to adjust the shelves. Well, you could also take it apart in sections to adjust it. That’s kinda a con. It has tons of options for adjustment but it’s not convenient to do. It’s easy once you take it apart though.Another thing that was interesting was the plastic bracket? thingies that you clip onto the shelving poles to affix the actual shelves to the unit. Unless you click then into place, they tend to fly off the poles when you try to run the shelves onto them.On the con side, the instructions have letters listing the parts/pieces but no letter stickers on the corresponding packaging for the parts. While it wasn’t difficult to figure out, I had to carefully look at the instruction diagrams to figure out which rod/pole was which. Thank God for glasses!!Just as a mention, not a deduction, the unit was packaged very well so they place little round plastic spacers/caps to help in transit. That’s fantastic, but since you throw them away, I’d like to see those made from a heavy cardboard that way, less plastic is used and the cardboard can decompose.Overall, I’d give this shelving unit a 4.75 stars. Oliver gives this shelving unit 5 stars because now he can mouse seriously. Although he would like me to point out that without the wooden crates, he’s lost his feeding station so I get 0 stars for selecting this unit.The Mouse gives this shelving unit a 5 in esthetics but a big fat 0 in everything else because now he has a fat cat to contend with.

Sturdier than they look
I usually build my own shelves in closets but this move I couldn’t. I bought these shelves to use in a closet that was going to become my pantry. Putting them together takes a little finesse — not a lot but a little — but once they are together they are very sturdy. The only downside I noticed, after I began filling the shelves with the pantry items, is that the wire shelves aren’t solid enough for some of the boxes. I ended up finding thin plastic cutting boards to put on top of the wire shelves where I had smaller boxes. They look so clean and it is organized the way I like it.