This shelf is a solid little addition to our downstairs kitchen. We built a smaller sized kitchen with bathroom etc. in our basement family area, so that our children could feel at home in their own area. They come and go with hockey, so the times when they arrive from a 1 hour distance and then having to pack and unpack works for us. The shelf was placed above a 24x24 cupboard that we use for a coffee nook, thus the shelf works for placing mugs just above the cupboard. We didn't use the cup hooks because they would have interferred with the coffee purculator.