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Got the wall painted, emptied the old shelves, put the new system in place, and put everything back on the shelves. I still have a lot of stuff at my end (by the window) to sort through and thin out, but Emma has just done wonders sorting out here stuff! I even bought some 12inch oak board for additional shelves at my end! I did a quick Walnut stain and its darker that I wanted, but it'll do (once they fully dry). Wow - busy week and weekend!

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Just got home after buying Greg's wall system - thank goodness again for the CRV - got everything loaded in! Its a tight fit, but after a slow drive around the beltway in rush hour, its here. With much help from Emma, its all unpacked and in the basement! Now all I have to do is empty our office, sand and paint the wall, reassemble the wall unit, and load all our books and software onto it. But, this is a good start!

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Here are the 3 Dressers for the Wall system. I currently use them stacked in my bedroom - Teak exterior and birch interior ...

The system uses an aluminum track that gets screwed to the wall, and has wooden brackets with metal tips to support the shelves


The problem is the dressers, cabinets and desk unit have these hooks bolted to the inside - and they don't mesh with the aluminum tracks - so there must be some additional fitting or adapter that I don't have thats needed to hang those units to the tracks

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Earlier this year I got an older Danish Modern Wall System. Its a very neat series of cabinets, desk and shelves, with aluminum tracks meant to be bolted to the wall and brackets to you can hang everything with. The seller said she got it at SCAN years ago, had moved around with it for ages, and wanted something new. On the back of the cabinets it's stamped HG - Furniture, Made in Denmark. I brought it home, wiped it all down with orange oil, and stacked the 3 dressers in my bedroom for all my things. I put the glass-front display cabinets and extra pieces in the basement until summer was over. Now its time to have a deeper look at it.

It's Teak veneer with Birch drawer interiors - each piece is 35 1/2 wide, tho the height and depth vary.
There is a kind of desk unit with 2 half-width drawers and 2 cubbyholes underneath 35x16x6 1/2 tall.
There are 2 cabinets with glass sliding doors and glass shelves - 35x16x16
There is one dresser with 4 drawers - 35x16x16
There are 2 dressers with 4 drawers that are 19 3/4 deep
Plus a couple of shelves of varied depth 8 1/2", 11", 14 1/2

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Emma wants to redo our home office shelves, on the wall behind us when we are at our desks. Currently its a collection of folding shelf units and such we accumulated over the years, generally nice wood, but mismatched. We had gone to IKEA but it looked like we would spend $950-1200 for a system the way we wanted it. And flat pack furniture from around the world isn't very green.
But then I saw this Modern wall system on Craigslist ... Its a little rough and the seller wants way too much money, but its flexible and doesn't rely on proprietary hardware like that old SCAN system I got in FEB ...

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