What Card Boxes Will Fit Best on Your Shelves?

If you have a large collection of sports or gaming cards, you likely have card boxes on your shelves. The IKEA-style shelves (pictured below) or wire rack shelves (pictured further below) are effective solutions for card box storage.

So, what card boxes are best for your card collection? There are a few things to consider before you buy card boxes or shelves. Will your cards be stored loose, in toploaders, in magnetics, or other card holders? Will you have any graded cards? How many cards are in your collection? Whatever the answer, BCW has card boxes to solve your storage needs.

Before you purchase card boxes, consider how they will fit on your shelves. We provided examples below to demonstrate how your boxes will look on IKEA or wire rack shelves. The wire shelves we used are 36 inches wide by 16 inches deep.

BCW also offers small card boxes, which are not pictured below. You can find all of our card boxes here.

Card Catalog on IKEA Shelves
Card Catalog on IKEA Shelves

The Six-drawer Card Catalog is designed to fit in IEKA or similar shelving but can also lock together with other units to create a modular system. Using the catalog with an IKEA Kallax lets you find cards easily, as you don’t have to physically maneuver boxes. This makes it a perfect setup for someone with a large collection they access regularly.

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