Home Office Wall System 2400mm Wide with a Desk Shelf in Solid Walnut

A desk and the storage above it on one set of uprights, sized for a shared home office with two desk positions. The desk shelf is 600mm deep and braced for a person leaning on it.

The track system is the reason this shelving scales. Slotted uprights fix to the wall on a 600mm grid, brackets hook into the slots at 32mm pitch, and shelves sit on the brackets. Nothing is fixed at a height you have to live with. A shelf moves in about twenty seconds with no tools, no new holes and no filler, which matters more than any other feature once you have owned it for a year and the books have changed. The uprights carry the load straight down into the wall rather than trying to lever off it, which is why a track system holds far more than the same shelf on a pair of cantilever brackets.

Specification

• Dimensions: 2400mm wide, one desk shelf at 600mm deep and five shelves at 250mm deep
• Material: solid American black walnut, 30mm thick, finished in hardwax oil
• Finish: hardware in your chosen finish, timber oiled and ready to use
• Load rating: desk shelf rated to 120kg, upper shelves 97kg per shelf evenly distributed, tested to twice that before deflection reaches 3mm
• Span and bracket spacing: uprights at 600mm centres, the desk shelf on braced 600mm brackets
• Adjustability: every shelf including the desk moves on a 32mm pitch, so the desk height can be set for the chair rather than the other way round
• Suitable walls: timber stud at 400 or 600mm centres, brick, block and concrete. Not suitable for plasterboard on dabs without a timber backing batten
• Fixings: stainless screws and the right plug for masonry are included. Fixings for plasterboard on dabs and for metal stud are supplied on request at no charge
• Desk height: set anywhere between 680 and 780mm, adjust it to the chair
• Desk shelf: 600mm deep, braced with a diagonal stay at every bracket
• Cable management: a 60mm grommet and a cable tray under the desk shelf
• Upright height: 1800mm
• Packed weight: approximately 111.5 kilograms

What you get

• Five slotted uprights, 1800mm
• One desk shelf, 2400mm by 600mm by 30mm in solid walnut
• Five upper shelves, 2400mm by 250mm by 30mm
• 5 braced desk brackets and 25 shelf brackets
• One under desk cable tray and a 60mm grommet
• Fixing packs for masonry and for timber stud

Fitting

Two people, a drill, a spirit level and about two hours for a single wall. Mark the top line first and hang every upright from it rather than measuring up from the floor, because floors are never level and a shelf that follows the floor looks wrong in a way nobody can put their finger on. Fix the first upright, level it, then use a shelf as a straight edge to set the next one. The fixing pack, a paper template and a printed sequence are in the box.

Planning your wall

Work from the top down. Set the top shelf where it looks right, usually a little above eye level, then space the rest below it. Books want 320mm between shelves for paperbacks and 400mm for hardbacks and art books, and there is no reason for the spacing to be equal. A wall of identical gaps reads as storage and a wall of varied gaps reads as a room. Leave the bottom shelf at least 300mm off the floor so a hoover and a skirting board both have somewhere to go.