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Living Room Built In Shelving

Has anyone used a contractor to build and install built in shelving in their living room or dining room? I got a ballpark estimate from Pittsburgh Remodeling Co. and it was 10-20k! That seems on the expensive side. Has anyone else looked into this. 

Re: Living Room Built In Shelving

  • Tony Rozic does that type of work
  • We are getting ours done for our daughter's bedroom (full length bookshelves on each side of window, window seat; crown, etc) and it was around $1500 but our person was with our builder who is going to do it in the winter months
    ourblackandgoldworld.blogspot.com
  • Are you building as a part of new construction or installing post build? Does your builder do this on the side? If so, Id be interested in his/her info! 
  • I don't have a specific estimate, but I will say that the more specific you can be about what you want, the better the bid number you will get.

    How many shelves? How many vertical elements? Is it all wood? How are they finished? Do you want a modern, sleek look or is everything trimmed out?

    The wide range of the first estimate makes me think that either the parameters were very general or the contractor you talked to doesn't really need/want the work right now.
    Heather Margaret --- Feb '07 and Todd Eldon --- April '09

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  • I agree totally with Amy, the more specific you are the better.

    Also, if you have drawers in addition to shelving it will drive up the price a lot since drawers are labor intensive.
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