I have a number of different sizes of the Ikea expedit shelves in the darker brown, and I love them! I have them in my scrapbooking retreat centre because they hold 12x12 albums and the baskets with 12x12 paper, and plan to use them in my daycare as well with the bins to hold toys. I'm going to have my hubby close in the back of one of them so I can use it to block access to the front stairs which cannot be gated. The bottom 3 stairs don't have a second wall beside them, hard to explain. So I need to put a piece of furniture in front.