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I've used Elfa twin-track shelving for book shelving in chimney alcoves, and ended up just using three tracks and brackets (so at ~60cm spacing). This meant I could just use 18mm ply for the shelves, and even heavy art books are fine. Once the books are on, the tracks mostly disappear anyway.
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Thanks for that. Is Elfa better than other own brands twin track?
I've got a load on the adjacent wall which isn't very deep, maybe 25cm and I'm a bit dubious about loading them. But it's a wall apparently made of soot and horsehair, so hopefully the brick party wall would be better. Ideally I'd like to go quite deep on the shelves maybe 40-45cm, so potentially quite a lot of leverage.
hoefla
Looking at stuff like that, makes me realise that I don't really like modern/minimal detailing :/
It's lovely, but the shadow gap skirting makes me twitch.
I like this oak(?) lipping on the front of twin track shelving though. Been thinking about what storage to do in a wide recess next to the chimney breast, was going to just batten the walls but slightly worried about wanting to change shelf heights in future. Needs to be strong enough to hold 1.3m wide magazines and books and stuff though.