Mustard Made Lowdown Locker Review: Stylish Storage

I’ve ever been the benignant of idiosyncratic who's surrounded by “doom piles”—random collections of my belongings that don’t needfully person a rhyme oregon reason. I person ADHD and a emotion of Things, and I’m a Millennial who’s ne'er had capable built-in retention successful her home. Be it shoes, other toiletries, random crafting supplies, oregon my ever-growing service of stuffed animals, I ne'er knew wherever to enactment anything. And past I started a occupation arsenic a merchandise reviewer, and my postulation of doom piles expanded twentyfold. I get worldly sent to my location for a living—and that worldly gets promptly deposited into piles astir my office. And kitchen. And surviving room. And bedroom. And effort arsenic I mightiness to corral it each with integrative totes and wide bins, those extremity up making my location consciousness similar immoderate benignant of organisation halfway for my Stuff. Champagne problems, I know, but problems nonetheless.

This twelvemonth is the twelvemonth I decided I needed to fig retired however to store and signifier my things, some enactment and personal, erstwhile and for all. And the Mustard Made Lowdown Locker is 1 of the champion solutions I’ve recovered truthful far. (No wonderment Senior Commerce Editor Julian Chokkattu included these lockers successful his Work-from-Home Gift Guide.)

Set It Up

This flat-pack locker comes successful a long, rectangular container replete with integrative wrapper and styrofoam. Assembly is comparatively simple. I appreciated the wide insubstantial instructions, positive the video instructions for ocular learners similar myself. All you truly request is simply a modular cross-head screwdriver, though immoderate assembly is easier if you person a pal astir to help. I managed to acceptable up The Lowdown each by myself, and I lone swore a fistful of times. (That’s a bully happening compared to my accustomed sailor rima erstwhile assembling thing for work.)

The metallic pieces and panels are casual to portion together, though 1 of my backmost panels was either machined incorrectly oregon damaged during shipping, starring to an imperfect country signifier that made it hard to slot successful connected 1 side. After overmuch swearing and elbow grease, I failed to determination it backmost to wherever it should be. I ended up forging up with the remainder of the assembly and it each worked retired OK, though evidently this flaw is not perfect (and if you tally into a akin situation, you tin email photos to lawsuit work and get your portion replaced). Other than that, the pieces were each machined smoothly with fewer unsmooth edges, and the overgarment was applied perfectly crossed each piece. And contempt my somewhat misshapen backmost panel, I managed to get everything squared away. It’s important to enactment that, aft looking astatine different reviews online, this mistake seems to beryllium an anomaly. Fully assembled, the locker is sturdy, and it looks fantastic. The doors enactment enactment and the legs are straight. I bash privation the doors snapped unopen with a satisfying dependable akin to the ones I’d slam successful precocious school, but adjacent without the tactile satisfaction, they’re solid.

Fill It Full

Each support of The Lowdown tin clasp astir 90 pounds—Your other gift-wrapping supplies! Your workout equipment! Your random camping gear!—and you get a mates of other brackets to set the default layout if you wish. The default layout is 2 shelves crossed the locker astatine the aforesaid height, but the other brackets let you to spot each support astatine antithetic heights. Those brackets are the lone other hardware pieces you get—another insignificant happening that bothered me. When I was attaching 1 of the handles, I dropped the teeny-tiny screw and washer. The washer disappeared into the jungle of my carpet. It ended up being fine—I conscionable attached it with the screw—but if the screw had disappeared, I would’ve been rather upset. So support way of your hardware portion assembling!