Board Games · by Oliver Smith · 2026-09-02

storage question from a small-apartment goblin: vertical or horizontal for game boxes?

I know the ideal answer is "buy more shelving" but London rent says no. Some boxes live on their sides already and the components seem mostly okay, yet every time I do it I feel like I am betraying an invisible uncle.

Would love practical wisdom.

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Mariana Costa · 4 likes

Vertical with bagged components is fine for most modern inserts.

Yasmine El Amrani · 0 likes

Ikea Kallax has committed more boardgame real estate than some nations.

Brian Otieno · 3 likes

The invisible uncle is called gravity and he can be negotiated with.

Luciana Vargas · 1 likes

Horizontal for games with terrible inserts, vertical for everything I've aggressively bagged.

Oliver Smith · 2 likes

Aggressively bagged is basically my entire strategy at this point

Léa Bernard · 1 likes

Just never trust punchboard tokens loose in a tall box unless you enjoy archaeology.