People that can afford it will buy the product. People who cannot afford it will try the DIY. Still it is a great solution, I have seen thousands of bookshelves damaged or thrown away just because they do not fit on the new house.
I have seen this done with old wine cases and I know years ago, I saw plans for the same thing in a punk DIY zine - the really clever part here is the little plastic feet - the other designs used self-countersinking woodscrews for more stability, but also more hassle. I've built something similar with zip-ties and milk crates, but the trick there is that you have to do a full wall, tighly, or the crates deform laterally under load. I'm glad he's making a go of it, but I'd also encourage DIYers!
My husband made these for me. I use them for everything ... pots 'n pans, books, displaying, also for my white stoneware collection. I can stack them any way I like for whatever space. Btw, husband didn't do the "plugs". The cubbies are heavy enough and stay in place. I just love 'em. They're my favorite "furniture" besides the country cupboards hubby made for me.
Brilliant, you can take it a lot further with specialty boxes, like a box for a medium tv, or boxes to hang clothing (maybe with a sliding a door), ... infinite possibilities
I did this with milk crates years ago back in my military days. We always had to move rooms in the barracks and it made moving my books much easier with a "modular" bookshelf. Wish I had thought to patent it or make a business! ;) Maybe next idea.
Brilliant - simply brilliant!! Thanks so much for sharing with us - I can't wait until you sell these in the USA. I've moved a lot, and I'm even a bit older than these designers, so you can imagine how difficult it is for me. First thing I have to do when I contemplate a move is that heartbreaking decision to get rid of a lot of my books, which is very, very difficult for a bibliophile like myself.
such a simple idea, yet so amazing! It's definitely one of those "why didn't I think of that?" moments! haha I love the idea of creating walls, and filling the "wall" with books!
I had this exact same idea (great for moving and 1-person assembly), I wanted exactly this, but I couldn't be bothered to make it (it's a lot of work if you do it by hand) so I'm happy someone made it for me at a very very reasonable price.
Wahou ! just checked the prices on their website, super expensive !!! I thought this was great because I've always wanted to build furniture that would carry my stuff when i moove as well, without having to go through the whole cardboard boxing thing but I was worried about the steadiness of it all, seems like they fixed that for me, just gotta do it myself now...
After a small amount of digging on the manufacturer's website, I learned that ModMobili is their US distributor. The units are still pricey (US$65 for a large BrickBox in white), but at least there's free US shipping. I love the BrickBox concept, but don't know that I could afford it for yarn stash shelving in my craft room. (I have a rather large stash!) Clever design, though, Sr. Salvador!
@@maximusaurelius9906 Ouch! Menards sells something similar (manufactured by Dakota Shelving), which I believe is far less expensive (if it hasn't been discontinued), although they recommend anchoring the units to the wall if you build them more than 3 boxes high. I ended up going with wire cube shelving (reinforced with LOTS of zip ties) on one wall of my craft room, and a tool-free 5 x 5 cube wood shelving unit from Sprout on the opposite wall.
@@DOSBoxMom Thanks. I found them. The Dakota Stackube. Looks like they have discontinued the larger size and only carry the smaller cube. I would love to get a mix a both but may settle for several of the smaller cube size. Unless they sell out before I get around to it.
great series of videos, I lived in a Hymer motor home before settling in southern Spain and they all appeal to my 'can it serve two purposes' philosophy! Well done you! y gracias tambien! Lx
I must be slow. I've been following Brickbox and Kristen Dirksen for a while now ...and just figured out Kristen shot this video. Serendipity I guess :) ...thank you!
Such a good idea. It would be great if these guys could mass market this product, because it looks like it is quality made (unlike most Ikea products) to reduce the price. $50 is a lot of money for one little wooden box. Maybe a better thought would be asking how much it should cost. Where are they sourcing the manufacturing of these boxes. Maybe they are paying the workers fairly (also unlike Ikea).
It was hard for me to wait 'til the end of this video to comment!!!! This is an awesome idea& so structurally sound. I am an avid collector(hoarder) of just about anything,but especially books& have cheap(& wobbly!!!) bookshelves all over my home. this style would free up a lot of floor space& also show off my collections!!! red
At the prices on the website, could be a good idea to just buy a C&C machine, have the robot cut out all your pieces, assemble them yourself, then sell the C&C machine...
Modified Milk crates would come close to this, or double sized milk crates with solid walls would be a dead wringer ! 8) Very thick compressed wood pulp fibre (like egg cartons but thicker and stronger) might also work.
I've seen similar attempts at modular shelving but this is easily the smartest I've seen in some time. I particularly like the idea of using them to build dividing walls. This is something I'd expect to see at Ikea (in a good way), but they would have to be a lot (lot lot lot) less expensive to sell in the states. The idea is valuable, but paying that much for a plywood box with some handles and slots routed out may not appeal to much of the target demographic.
Home depot has a similar wood boxe with whole for handdle...a bit smaller but it cost 20$ canadian. You can easily add whole and screw to make those fixation.
Very clever but it uses a great deal of wood per linear foot of shelf. That's why it's so heavy. For the top shelf you only need half as many boxes since the books will sit just as well in the gap between. Of course that makes moving more difficult, but how often do you really need to move. If there was a way to do something similar with all the shelves so that assembling an entire wall of shelves only required a bit more than half the number of boxes you would really have something.
Ikea sells modular shelving made of wood composite that, although wont last a lifetime, looks better, has color choices, has add ons like doors, and costs one- fifth the price.
Yeah.. but they are using it for moving them also.. in this one, top of bottom box and bottom of top box has each a piece of board.. if we can cut 1 piece into multiple pieces, fix few to cover bottom box and few to cover bottom of top box.. but fix it alternative.. so we can stack them perfectly exactly like lego.. you can save 1 piece for every stack
Yea... I was going to say... although he's a genius and it's fantastic quality, it's so expensive! I was looking at them now so that I could get them in my apartment (cuz I love around a lot too) and it's way out of my budget for a shelving unit. If I'm going to drop a thousand, I can do it on other things...
@@mayamurad2068 yeah almost 50 boxes at 49 euros each is too expensive for what it is. When they set the price, people who invented this thinks that you pay for the idea but hey, I'm buying a book shelve, not a library building
the only weak point I can see, is when they disassemble, books are heavy which makes the lifting difficult and there are lot of steps to end up moving it: lift with your hand in an uncomfortable position, move a couple of inches, grab the hadles and then finaly move the box. You can see the struggle, I think it could be improved by adding a handle on top, I know those wouldn't match like the ones on the sides, but it would make easier the lift. Apart from that, the benefits are really good
Amazing, but pricey. One large box cost $59 and one small box cost $54 here in the U.S. Legs, casters, doors, all cost more. This is just what I need, but this would put me in the poor house real quick. They only appear to have one distributor here in the states, in Colorado.
01:54 The boxes perfectly fit the magazine files shown. I guess that was another design constraint for the boxes. The question arises though: what do you do with that one item that is slightly too tall to fit in a box? The encyclopedia or vintage world atlas, or expensive coffee table book of photos that has lost its place on your coffee table? However tall these boxes had been made, there would always be some usage that required a slightly higher one, and at any height there would always be a compromise of wasted space for shorter items like paperbacks which didnt fit an even number of times with inset shelves.
They’re like banana boxes you can get in supermarkets! I’m right after moving, most of my stuff still in those banana boxes, thinking about doing exactly that…
Love this idea . Single women can do it by themselves! No help needed. I use old fruit cases for this purpose. I think the should be cheaper if they want to sell a lot of those though.
this is a great idea! I think I saw some records in there.. do they fit? Also, you didn't talk about the inner shelf where you had cd's sitting- are they an option, or did you just screw in some more wood? was it sitting on top of the books below? I think it is a great idea, and I love it to divide a room- I have something similar from crate and barrel, but there is no backing, so you can't really use it to divide. send me some, i'll review it :)
Of course it's a very good idea and perhaps they were innovative at the time. Doesn't seem exceptionally brilliant to me though - many people I know have been doing this with wine boxes or similar things for ages. Definitely better than the IKEA solutions, but pretty pricey. The wooden shelves that I have been buying cost 16€ apiece - 180 cm tall with 5 shelves. It allows me to cover the whole wall for the price of 1 of these boxes.
I like this idea alot but I would go with a dark colored wood and not white. If they had more color options Im sure more people would be up to buying this
The price is too high right now. $50 (40 euro) would make any of the arrangements they showed on the box be over $1,000. It would make more sense at that price to simply pay someone $50 to move just your big bookshelf and books every time you had to move. I'd like to see a knock off of this in aluminum or steel, since it's really a great idea.
Such a simple and effective approach! Sad they aren't available in the US yet but I'm sure we can come up with something similar. We actually have an immediate need for something like this in moving a parent's book collection. The thing that concerns me is earthquake safety. Any idea how they would fare. The size and rigidity seems to make them very stable, but how well would that hold up to a shaker in costal California? Please share your thoughts!
00:35 A row of DVDs, a shelf, and a row of CDs pack perfectly into a box. I wonder if that determined the internal height for the design. Two rows of paperbacks would not fit, however and a box of paperback books would have a large wasted space of empty air, decreasing the storage per unit floorspace compared to a conventional bookcase with movable shelves, and increasing the cost per unit volume of stored objects. A general problem with having fixed standard box heights is not being able to set an optimal shelf height for the box contents. I note several boxes here are made to look full by packing a row of CDs above a row of unrelated larger items within one box, but storing CDs is an increasingly niche application, and wouldn't you want all your CDs together under some organisation scheme rather than scattered among your other belongings to fill in vertical gaps in underutilized boxes?
People that can afford it will buy the product. People who cannot afford it will try the DIY. Still it is a great solution, I have seen thousands of bookshelves damaged or thrown away just because they do not fit on the new house.
Man, this is my dream come true! I have 3 thousand books and moving is a NIGHTMARE
I have seen this done with old wine cases and I know years ago, I saw plans for the same thing in a punk DIY zine - the really clever part here is the little plastic feet - the other designs used self-countersinking woodscrews for more stability, but also more hassle.
I've built something similar with zip-ties and milk crates, but the trick there is that you have to do a full wall, tighly, or the crates deform laterally under load.
I'm glad he's making a go of it, but I'd also encourage DIYers!
My husband made these for me. I use them for everything ... pots 'n pans, books, displaying, also for my white stoneware collection. I can stack them any way I like for whatever space. Btw, husband didn't do the "plugs". The cubbies are heavy enough and stay in place. I just love 'em. They're my favorite "furniture" besides the country cupboards hubby made for me.
Did he include the cut out handles? And did he use compressed wood?
Brilliant, you can take it a lot further with specialty boxes, like a box for a medium tv, or boxes to hang clothing (maybe with a sliding a door), ... infinite possibilities
With little drawers or baskets it could also be a clothes dresser. Neat! Very useful!
You can buy them directly from the designers on their website: brickbox . es (I've put it in the text above as well).
Fantastically brilliant design.
I did this with milk crates years ago back in my military days. We always had to move rooms in the barracks and it made moving my books much easier with a "modular" bookshelf. Wish I had thought to patent it or make a business! ;) Maybe next idea.
Better without patents. ;-)
I am ahead of the curve. I have been using milk crates as furniture since I have had to support myself.
Brilliant - simply brilliant!! Thanks so much for sharing with us - I can't wait until you sell these in the USA. I've moved a lot, and I'm even a bit older than these designers, so you can imagine how difficult it is for me. First thing I have to do when I contemplate a move is that heartbreaking decision to get rid of a lot of my books, which is very, very difficult for a bibliophile like myself.
such a simple idea, yet so amazing! It's definitely one of those "why didn't I think of that?" moments! haha I love the idea of creating walls, and filling the "wall" with books!
I had this exact same idea (great for moving and 1-person assembly), I wanted exactly this, but I couldn't be bothered to make it (it's a lot of work if you do it by hand) so I'm happy someone made it for me at a very very reasonable price.
I've been thinking of something like this for years. You came up with a great design!!
Wow, that's really cool. It's every piece of furniture, like ever.
Wahou ! just checked the prices on their website, super expensive !!! I thought this was great because I've always wanted to build furniture that would carry my stuff when i moove as well, without having to go through the whole cardboard boxing thing but I was worried about the steadiness of it all, seems like they fixed that for me, just gotta do it myself now...
The best thing i have seen in years.. and price is good too, and being in europe i can get them woohoo.. thanks for taping this segment...
After a small amount of digging on the manufacturer's website, I learned that ModMobili is their US distributor. The units are still pricey (US$65 for a large BrickBox in white), but at least there's free US shipping. I love the BrickBox concept, but don't know that I could afford it for yarn stash shelving in my craft room. (I have a rather large stash!) Clever design, though, Sr. Salvador!
Have checked those prices lately. Makes me wish I'd bought some back when both box sizes were in the $50 range. They've doubled in price now.
@@maximusaurelius9906 Ouch! Menards sells something similar (manufactured by Dakota Shelving), which I believe is far less expensive (if it hasn't been discontinued), although they recommend anchoring the units to the wall if you build them more than 3 boxes high. I ended up going with wire cube shelving (reinforced with LOTS of zip ties) on one wall of my craft room, and a tool-free 5 x 5 cube wood shelving unit from Sprout on the opposite wall.
@@DOSBoxMom Thanks. I found them. The Dakota Stackube. Looks like they have discontinued the larger size and only carry the smaller cube. I would love to get a mix a both but may settle for several of the smaller cube size. Unless they sell out before I get around to it.
I love these boxes and I love Tetris too! Great video and great storage too!!!!! :-)
This is incredibly useful, thanks for sharing this video. Great work, love your channel!
great series of videos, I lived in a Hymer motor home before settling in southern Spain and they all appeal to my 'can it serve two purposes' philosophy! Well done you! y gracias tambien! Lx
I must be slow. I've been following Brickbox and Kristen Dirksen for a while now ...and just figured out Kristen shot this video. Serendipity I guess :) ...thank you!
Such a good idea. It would be great if these guys could mass market this product, because it looks like it is quality made (unlike most Ikea products) to reduce the price. $50 is a lot of money for one little wooden box. Maybe a better thought would be asking how much it should cost. Where are they sourcing the manufacturing of these boxes. Maybe they are paying the workers fairly (also unlike Ikea).
Absolutely love it! Simple and Effective! Form and Function :D
This is such a fabulous idea, thank you for sharing it with us. :)
What a great idea. Esp for renters. Should find distributers in Australia too. Will be a hit!!
It was hard for me to wait 'til the end of this video to comment!!!! This is an awesome idea& so structurally sound. I am an avid collector(hoarder) of just about anything,but especially books& have cheap(& wobbly!!!) bookshelves all over my home. this style would free up a lot of floor space& also show off my collections!!! red
Great idea for DIY
At the prices on the website, could be a good idea to just buy a C&C machine, have the robot cut out all your pieces, assemble them yourself, then sell the C&C machine...
simply beautiful in every way
Just saw this. I love it! and i think my cats will love these too. Awesome steps to climb on! :)
Modified Milk crates would come close to this, or double sized milk crates with solid walls would be a dead wringer ! 8) Very thick compressed wood pulp fibre (like egg cartons but thicker and stronger) might also work.
I've been looking around for something like this.
I've seen similar attempts at modular shelving but this is easily the smartest I've seen in some time. I particularly like the idea of using them to build dividing walls. This is something I'd expect to see at Ikea (in a good way), but they would have to be a lot (lot lot lot) less expensive to sell in the states. The idea is valuable, but paying that much for a plywood box with some handles and slots routed out may not appeal to much of the target demographic.
Very nice idea.
Milkcrates! :) yes im that old... We used to do this with milk crates!
brilliant! just to fly in the middle of the night
Thank you. This is exactly what I have been looking for.
Home depot has a similar wood boxe with whole for handdle...a bit smaller but it cost 20$ canadian. You can easily add whole and screw to make those fixation.
I love this.
Cabinets added are good.
thanks for pointing that bit out to us.
Su idea es muy MUY buena! Felicitaciones desde Colombia :)
gracias por compartirla!
¡Fantástica idea!
Very functional and unique but very expensive as well.
awesome idea!
Very clever but it uses a great deal of wood per linear foot of shelf. That's why it's so heavy. For the top shelf you only need half as many boxes since the books will sit just as well in the gap between. Of course that makes moving more difficult, but how often do you really need to move. If there was a way to do something similar with all the shelves so that assembling an entire wall of shelves only required a bit more than half the number of boxes you would really have something.
absolutely need some of those...
Bravo! I was thinking about how to do this for a while. Very ingenious. Best of luck to your company.
Que gran invento. El color me encanta. Felicidades desde Tenerife islas Canarias España.
omg! i've been trying to design for myself a lego like cabinets. Cool!
Ikea sells modular shelving made of wood composite that, although wont last a lifetime, looks better, has color choices, has add ons like doors, and costs one- fifth the price.
This is a good idea.
Genial!!! Y me quiero comprar el libro también!!!!
a most excellente idea seni`or,.. mad props to you.
Great idea :)
eu adoro tudo arrumado e limpo vcs arrasa
It's a great idea! But one box costs around 40€. If you want to build a shelf like in the video you need a lot of money obviously :(
Seems easy to build, a box.
Yeah.. but they are using it for moving them also.. in this one, top of bottom box and bottom of top box has each a piece of board.. if we can cut 1 piece into multiple pieces, fix few to cover bottom box and few to cover bottom of top box.. but fix it alternative.. so we can stack them perfectly exactly like lego.. you can save 1 piece for every stack
I love these!! Just awesome and I think you could use these for more than just books. Very cool :)
This is totally awesome :)
I LOVE this idea. but for plywood boxes they are very expensive. $60 dollars per box!
build your own.
Maybe ikea would be interested in buying them. I think they could make them much cheaper too.
This looks way above Ikea quality.
Yea... I was going to say... although he's a genius and it's fantastic quality, it's so expensive! I was looking at them now so that I could get them in my apartment (cuz I love around a lot too) and it's way out of my budget for a shelving unit. If I'm going to drop a thousand, I can do it on other things...
@@mayamurad2068 yeah almost 50 boxes at 49 euros each is too expensive for what it is. When they set the price, people who invented this thinks that you pay for the idea but hey, I'm buying a book shelve, not a library building
Guys if you think 1000 is a lot, then keep going to IKEA.
fantastic ideea....it looks very cool
Great idea its a solution for everyone
Intriguing. They would look much nicer if there was a 'handle delete' option. I have seen the new oak upgrade, but the white look nicer.
the only weak point I can see, is when they disassemble, books are heavy which makes the lifting difficult and there are lot of steps to end up moving it: lift with your hand in an uncomfortable position, move a couple of inches, grab the hadles and then finaly move the box. You can see the struggle, I think it could be improved by adding a handle on top, I know those wouldn't match like the ones on the sides, but it would make easier the lift. Apart from that, the benefits are really good
Amazing, but pricey. One large box cost $59 and one small box cost $54 here in the U.S. Legs, casters, doors, all cost more. This is just what I need, but this would put me in the poor house real quick. They only appear to have one distributor here in the states, in Colorado.
Love it
$50 for a box? Sounds like good DIY project. Couple of boxes at a time... (Where's my birch plywood stock? Go look for it.)
Make this in plastic and I think it would be a hit with college students.
Brilliant
Looks like you could create a "dress up your box" business to compliment his.... ;0)
this is perfect. love it first sight. but they are way to expensive for me. what a pity.
That what I thought back then as well. Have you checked the prices lately. Ouch!
01:54 The boxes perfectly fit the magazine files shown. I guess that was another design constraint for the boxes. The question arises though: what do you do with that one item that is slightly too tall to fit in a box? The encyclopedia or vintage world atlas, or expensive coffee table book of photos that has lost its place on your coffee table? However tall these boxes had been made, there would always be some usage that required a slightly higher one, and at any height there would always be a compromise of wasted space for shorter items like paperbacks which didnt fit an even number of times with inset shelves.
They’re like banana boxes you can get in supermarkets! I’m right after moving, most of my stuff still in those banana boxes, thinking about doing exactly that…
Love this idea . Single women can do it by themselves! No help needed.
I use old fruit cases for this purpose.
I think the should be cheaper if they want to sell a lot of those though.
this is a great idea! I think I saw some records in there.. do they fit? Also, you didn't talk about the inner shelf where you had cd's sitting- are they an option, or did you just screw in some more wood? was it sitting on top of the books below? I think it is a great idea, and I love it to divide a room- I have something similar from crate and barrel, but there is no backing, so you can't really use it to divide. send me some, i'll review it :)
The bottom row needs a mechanism to account for non-level, non-flat floors as most are in old houses.
I like the concept but is there one with a door?
Nomadic furniture book had this featured. Wonder it's the same company they recommended. The book was written many decades ago.
I love this idea. But it seems too expensive. I wonder if there's anything similar in the US that is cheaper?
GENIAL!
Of course it's a very good idea and perhaps they were innovative at the time. Doesn't seem exceptionally brilliant to me though - many people I know have been doing this with wine boxes or similar things for ages. Definitely better than the IKEA solutions, but pretty pricey. The wooden shelves that I have been buying cost 16€ apiece - 180 cm tall with 5 shelves. It allows me to cover the whole wall for the price of 1 of these boxes.
expensiiiiive
I like this idea alot but I would go with a dark colored wood and not white. If they had more color options Im sure more people would be up to buying this
80.00 USD each is not the ideal price for the mass market, Needs to be at least half that to work.
making cost comes around 5$.
luv it
I'm going to buy one and then copy it
The price is too high right now. $50 (40 euro) would make any of the arrangements they showed on the box be over $1,000. It would make more sense at that price to simply pay someone $50 to move just your big bookshelf and books every time you had to move. I'd like to see a knock off of this in aluminum or steel, since it's really a great idea.
Such a simple and effective approach! Sad they aren't available in the US yet but I'm sure we can come up with something similar. We actually have an immediate need for something like this in moving a parent's book collection.
The thing that concerns me is earthquake safety. Any idea how they would fare. The size and rigidity seems to make them very stable, but how well would that hold up to a shaker in costal California? Please share your thoughts!
Good idea but way too expensive in the US. Why should I pay twice as much as Europeans? This is flat pack furniture in the style of IKEA.
i wonder if they are more susceptiple to tipping over due to the simple locking points.
I fucking love this ! my body is ready
7:58 to explain this simple modular design, really!!
Que bien ya llego esta opcion a Centro America? Cuanto cuesta?
00:35 A row of DVDs, a shelf, and a row of CDs pack perfectly into a box. I wonder if that determined the internal height for the design. Two rows of paperbacks would not fit, however and a box of paperback books would have a large wasted space of empty air, decreasing the storage per unit floorspace compared to a conventional bookcase with movable shelves, and increasing the cost per unit volume of stored objects. A general problem with having fixed standard box heights is not being able to set an optimal shelf height for the box contents. I note several boxes here are made to look full by packing a row of CDs above a row of unrelated larger items within one box, but storing CDs is an increasingly niche application, and wouldn't you want all your CDs together under some organisation scheme rather than scattered among your other belongings to fill in vertical gaps in underutilized boxes?
Can these be used as stairs
WANT!
PLEASE start selling these in Australia!!
i think in your case the boxes would also need an additional side attachment/interlocking system
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