I bought this shelf for my daughters room to display her trophys and crowns for lack of floor space. It is a nice little shelf, anchors with a wooden board to the wall and shelf slides over it with two small screws anchoring it to the board on the wall. Due to the size I was only able to pick up two studs and putting in wall anchors is the recommendation if no stud In wall is used. With no more weight than I put on it I'm not worried about it. It's definetly note a shelf you can put more than 40 pounds on but looks nice.