Dorm Room Shelving for the Next Semester

It is never too early to start planning for your first year of dorm life. Even though it is only mid-summer right now, it takes a lot of planning to ensure that your dorm experience is a positive one. One way to ensure you are neat and organized as a roommate is to have the appropriate dorm room shelving to store all of your things.

One mistake new students often make when moving into the dorms is that they bring way too much of their stuff. You need to remember you will be sharing this space with between one and four other people, and there simply is not that much room for everybody’s things. With dorm room shelving, portability and a compact footprint are a must.

Because you want to avoid having wide shelving that takes up a lot of room, I recommend using shelf units that have four or more individual shelves. That way you can give your room a lot of shelving space without taking up valuable floor space.

Another thing to look for when you are purchasing dorm room shelving is to see if they fold down. Not only is this a great resource for bringing the shelving in, it also makes it easy to pack up when it is time to move out of the dorm at the end of the year.

The best kind of dorm room shelving:

The Narrow Folding Bookcase is the perfect choice for your dorm room shelving. This unit has four shelves and a narrow footprint that does not take up much floor space. It is made from solid wood, giving it excellent durability and a long-lasting quality, which is a must-have feature for any dorm room (you kids are hard on things!).

Obviously just one bookcase will not be enough to store all of your dorm room items, but keep looking into other shelving units so you can have a complete dorm storage system.