Thank you very very much for the advice even years later. I was pleasantly surprised to also discover you are one of the first RU-vidrs on the site! Hats off to the pioneers!
This is a great video and many thanks for all your hard work, doing a great physical comparison of each set of shelves. Just the thought of carrying all of those games up the stairs had me out of breath! But thank you for your efforts it really was very much appreciated.
I love your videos Scott! It's because of you that I've added some great games to my collection. Thank you very much for being you and for your love of the hobby! :-) Good luck with your new life in Canada! :-)
Great video! I have been trying to come up with a choice on these 3 shelves and seeing the same games placed on each model like that really helps conceptualize how my collection would fit best.
I never thought there was that much difference between those shelves until you moved the same set of games onto each one. Then the differences were very clear. Thanks!
Thank you so much for all the work you did in this video! This is exactly the video I was looking for :-) I am going to try to organize our board games and I have been trying to decide which system to get from IKEA. Thank you thank you thank you!
Hi Gregory ;) hope your adjusting to your new place and country... Thanks Scott for the review Im looking for shelves today and I was thinking about getting the Kallax so I came across this video. I actually thought you stopped doing videos. Glad to see ya back.
Excellent video. I have only been playing boardgames since January of this year. Good Lord! I did not realized they were so addicting. I'm already shopping around for shelving and your video helped a lot. Thanks again :-)
Fantastic. Have a fantastic time in Canada. I've been moving with Billy cases for years now. As the board game collection has increased though things are starting to get tight!
Awesome! What every gamer needs! I have the Kallax and it's working pretty well! Was hard to assemble tho but once it's up its good! Definitely need to secure to the wall.
Great video! I just moved my own collection. Getting the boxes and then actually moving them were the worst parts. I went with five 4x4 Kallax units and five of the 4x2s to stack on top. I didn't find putting them together myself too difficult but the left over space after filling them up with games is something that I came across as well. Right now I've just stuck slim card games in there but I want to eventually go over everything with a bit of reorganization.
Thanks Scott. This video was oddly fascinating for a video about shelves. I wish I'd seen this BEFORE I bought my Billy shelves. Good luck with the organizing! 8)
I used to watch Board Game with Scott when i was in school. (8 Years ago?) I have became a serious gamer / collector of my own now. Can't believe you are still making videos. You are one of my favorite reviewer of all time! Welcome back !
I store my 100+ games in a small closet using two different sized Billy shelves (TTR-sized boxes on the large, Sheriff of Nottingham, San Juan, etc. on medium) and the GNEDBY CD rack for card games and small box games like Resistance and For Sale. Works quite well. Scott, I'd love to see your shelves once you have everything organized!
For a real brief time in 2013/2014ish they had a Billy bookcase that was about 15 inches deep as well as the 11 inch deep ones that they only sell now. Other then the depth they were both the same height and width. We were able to get 3 of those and they are amazing for holding board games. Thanks for this video, between board games and my son's school stuff we're reaching the point where we're probably going to have to expand some more and it's handy to see what other options are currently available at Ikea.
I'm currently moving to a smallish apartment in NYC and trying to figure out what to do with my board game collection (much smaller than yours, but I'm hoping to grow it). This video was super helpful. Currently learning towards Kallax. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and doing all that work for us!
Great video, thanks! I have Kallax and Billy in my house. I moved all games to Kallax, its way better since I have glass doors in Billies and so most of the games don't fit in. There are little doors available for Kallax, I use those to hide my card games, extra packs of card sleeves and such. Ikea also has boxes that fit in Kallax snuggly, those can be handy for smaller games and accessories as well.
Great video! Thanks. I know it doesn't matter to many people, but I also appreciate that back on the Besta in many situations from an aesthetics stand point. But the Kallax also has those well-fitted inserts which can be great for us OCD people too when something just doesn't look right in stacks. :) Anyways, my first Scott Nicholson video. Off to find more!
Really helpful video! I've been trying to decided which system would be the best option for my (too) many books. I think I'll try the Kallax as it's more reasonably priced here in the UK than all the Billy bookcases I'd have to buy for the same storage space.
I ended up going with the kallax. I drilled 5mm holes in all the vertical wood, and added lil shelf pegs splitting the shelf in half and in thirds (options for taller boardgames). Sure it there is wasted space, but no games are stacked or stored on their side. All happy games :)
Thanks Scott! My only complaint is that this wasn't available 6 months ago ;-) I ended up going with the Kallax shelves and love them. I did buy another line at IKEA for my books and larger games (forget the name). I ended up buying the doors and drawer inserts for the smaller card games.
Very helpful video. I'm in the middle of reorganizing my apartment and find my Finnby (also Ikea's) shelves just too shallow for board games, and sticking out is not an option since the space is relatively crammed and someone (most likely: me) would bump into games constantly. Didn't know that Kallax 5x5 can have some dividers removed, I already considered Kallax for games but didn't know that. Also, for card games, if you don't have old cd racks, there's Ikea Gnedby (tall, VERY narrow and shallow shelf)
I'm late to this...but just want to say this video was very helpful. I'm about to 'Kallax' half my house for storing games, books etc. I'm going to use the kallax inserts for smaller, loose items. Swedish storage wins the day.
I just watched this from beginning to end. I'm surprised how informative and useful that was. I'm more surprised that I watched it all... Thanks, Scott Nicholson.
expedit/kallax is also a big hit with people who have record collections, since the interiors are the perfect size for LPs. there's also a 2x2 version.
we have a lot of kallax all over the house. they hold games and tons of books. the 2x4 kallax is really nice for me when you put it down longways and then you've got a waist-high shelf space. we've got one like that as our entertainment center (tv on top, games & stuff in the boxes under). another nice thing about any kallax is you can get internal storage dividers: double-drawers, T-divider, and cabinet. so for smaller card games & such, you could turn one of those squares into two drawers or 4 smaller squares.
Excellent comparison of the IKEA storage options. Kind of like a good board game. No single optimal path to victory for any given set of variables. Players, er, people, must balance cost, flexibility, and ease of construction based on their specific situation.
I have a combination, I have the Kallax as my "Regular sized board game shelf" and a Besta for my smaller games. Do you have a way to store those little card games? You mentioned CD rack?
Scott, I highly highly recommend you search for a norrebo for game storage if you find it, there are some listings in CA from the looks of it for a used one.
I try very hard not to stack any of my games ontop of eachother. I currently have a closet with sliding doors and I have made a bunch of standalone shelves that each fit 1 game height (2 or 3 side by side). Keeping all games flat and none stacking. The problem is... that closet is now full :( And my overflow space for cheaper games is also full... It looks like the besta is the only one that can hold games like this, but Id pay alot for many extra shelves :( Oh well, thanks for the review. great info.
Hey There!! Gregory. Say hay to the Trailer park boys eh. Good day eh. You got your workout for the week all in one day. Love the black shorts with button top.
Husband? I just bought 3 KALLAX and some dividers for the small card games (wine diver works perfectly fine with them). Sadly here in Europe they are only available in white.
What Besta model/configuration number did you get... im looking at the ikea site but i do not see those tall versions... all are short... thanks for the video
For 5 years, I did the first board game video series on RU-vid called Board Games with Scott. I started many videos with a funny intro, and it was something that many fans told me they missed when I didn't do it. So, who needs it? Fans of Board Games with Scott. Oh, and me. Given that I'm doing this for the fun of it, I do those things because it amuses me.
Oh man, HeroQuest UK ánd NA versions... *jealous* I love the Kallax. A black stylish shelf is just so much cooler. Besta looks so drab, especially in white. Billy is more of a book case, so not very good for boardgames, unless you only have smallish boxes. Anyway, "internet >:(" appreciates your efforts! Hi Gregory! >^.^
