How I Retailer Over 170 Board Video games in My Small Residence

Luckily, there are a variety of the way to rein within the dysfunction of an overstuffed Kallax. 

IKEA sells a spread of its personal inserts, and they’re reasonably priced and simple to assemble. Companies catering particularly to tabletop players have began to develop their very own organizing options, too, and there are even 3D-printable DIY choices. 

Here are a number of that I’ve tried, and you may see how they appear in my shelving system.

IKEA’s Kallax inserts: strong, reasonably priced, and versatile

This insert is simple to assemble and set up, and it leaves sufficient house for very massive video games.

Perfect for low-profile containers, this insert conveniently packs a ton of video games.

IKEA sells two shelf inserts for the Kallax: a single-shelf choice, which splits the sq. in two, and a four-shelf divider.

The singular choice works properly for bigger video games (something over the roughly 3-inch field top of most video games). So it’s superb for video games like Heat and Mansions of Madness, each of which might take up a ton of house or be too heavy in the event that they had been positioned atop different, more-lightweight video games. 

The four-shelf insert is ideal for video games with low-profile containers, like Brass and Pandemic (or something beneath 2 inches tall).

This mannequin’s small cubbies are good for holding tiny video games and decks of playing cards, however the prolonged house behind them is a bit wasted.

The IKEA Kallax insert for bottles is one other helpful choice for organizing smaller video games, equipment (like cube), and oddly formed containers. It helps to maintain these odds and ends from getting misplaced in a standard Kallax dice or from being hidden by bigger video games. But the lengthy, slender sections depart a variety of wasted house behind the video games. 

For small video games, the Kallax insert with 2 drawers works a lot better.

With a clear look and a stunning quantity of house, this drawer insert is superb for wrangling smaller video games. It was a bit tough to assemble, nevertheless it works nice within the unit.

The drawers are massive sufficient to retailer a number of decks of playing cards, plus a pair mid-size video games (like Sushi Go). Conveniently, the Kallax Insert with 2 drawers additionally lets me disguise my copy of Cards Against Humanity (which I’ve had since faculty and might’t carry myself to eliminate). 

Most of those inserts had been simple to assemble and set up, they usually really feel very safe and durable (by IKEA requirements). The drawers had been just a little extra difficult to construct — I initially put in them backwards. And you must be on alert for any containers that may fall behind a drawer if you pull it out.

Artisan inserts: Clever, customizable, and (comparatively) low-cost

The Kallax system has grow to be standard sufficient with players that tabletop-gaming accent firms promote their very own merchandise to switch the basic IKEA shelving models. 

Although these merchandise have much less of a cohesive look than the IKEA choices, they do carry their very own fashion and comfort.

Dividing the Kallax dice into three slots (which could be custom-made to the dimensions of your containers), this shelving is flexible and durable. And it’s a breeze to assemble and set up.

The Laserox Kallax Insert is extremely sturdy, and it took me lower than a minute to arrange and set up (you simply slot the items collectively and slide it in). And when it’s completed, it seems unobtrusive and stylish.

I want it had extra than simply two cabinets, nevertheless, as a result of this setup leaves solely three slots for video games. Still, it’s an ideal choice, particularly for heavier board-game containers.

With this equipment of brackets and precut dowels, you’ll be able to add as many particular person cabinets as you want. Initially it’s a bit tough to put in, nevertheless it turns into simpler when you get the hold of it.

With Lax Rax kits, you’ll be able to set up particular person cabinets for every of your video games inside the clean canvas of a Kallax dice. The kits include plastic mounts for small picket dowels, which you’ll stick onto the interior faces of the cubes, offering an analogous kind of storage to Box King’s metallic shelving. 

The smallest equipment comes with 12 units, and that was sufficient to supply devoted cabinets for 16 containers in my testing. While it felt a bit flimsy as I used to be setting it up, it has held up positive over time. The dowels enable for lots of flexibility by way of storing various-size containers. And they had been pretty straightforward to put in, although it took a while to grasp one of the best ways to put them.

A DIY choice: 3D-printed group

The Venn diagram of “board game hobbyist” and “3D printer enthusiast” is nearly a circle, so loads of players have tricked out their Kallax with customized prints for higher board sport group. If you could have entry to a 3D printer, you could have extra custom organization options than what’s obtainable from a retailer.

For instance, a fast search led me to this option, which features very similar to the Lax Rax system however with an extended plastic piece connected to every interior aspect of the dice, with locations to insert massive dowels as cabinets. 

It was pretty straightforward to arrange, with the one tough half being reducing the dowels to the correct size. The dowels maintain video games properly, although the system lacks the fine-tuned management you get with the Lax Rax. This meant that with the DIY cabinets, every Kallax dice solely held three containers reasonably than the Lax Rax’s 4. Still, this left a variety of house to retailer smaller video games across the bigger containers.