UPLIFT MoPac Cabinet

Before anything else, the disclosure: UPLIFT Desk sent me these cabinets and the MoPac Base free to review, along with the 3-Drawer File Cabinet on the other side of my desk. They get no edits and no say in the rating when it lands. UPLIFT also sent the UPLIFT V3 4-Leg Standing Desk and the walking pad free, so between those and now the storage, a lot of this office came from UPLIFT.

A Trip to Lowe's and a Vision

My old shelving was a trip to Lowe's and a vision. I executed it well, and I will stand by that, but it was not the best looking and it was not the best quality, and I was running out of space.

The biggest issue was that there was nowhere to hide anything. Everything sat out in the open, and the whole office looked messier for it. What I wanted was closed cabinets on the lower section. Out of sight, out of mind, and away from kid hands. With boys in the house, that was hugely important.

Four high: storage on the bottom, bookshelves on top, and the Funko Pops have a proper home.

Honestly Genius

The MoPac is honestly genius. Every piece is the same cabinet, closed with doors and handles or open without them, and you stack and connect them however your room needs. I went four high: two closed cabinets on the bottom for storage and two open cabinets on top as bookshelves.

That is just my version. You can stack them, or connect two side by side into what UPLIFT calls the MoPac Credenza. You can hang one on the wall with the MoPac Wall Cleat, anchored into at least two studs, and UPLIFT rates it for 50 pounds of contents that way. And if your office changes, you change the layout with just a couple of screw changes. It is very modular and there is infinite possibility in it, which matters to me, because I do not plan on this being my last office.

Building Four of Them

The first cabinet had a learning curve. Once I had one under my belt, I knocked out the other three super, super easy. They go together with cam locks and wood dowels, UPLIFT lists a Phillips screwdriver and a hammer or mallet as the tools, and the Allen wrench comes in the box.

One thing from the manual worth repeating: every cabinet ships with a MoPac Security Strap Kit, and UPLIFT requires the straps whenever you stack.

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Behind the doors: cables, spare boxes, and model kits waiting their turn. None of it on display.

This is the part I wanted most. The bottom two cabinets swallow everything I do not want to look at, and each one comes with an adjustable shelf. The doors close on soft-close hinges, and the bottom cabinet sits on the MoPac Base, which lifts the stack 4 inches off the floor.

Up top, the open cabinets are the fun part: books, Funko Pops, and my One Piece ships, with more figures lined up on top. It is a massive upgrade over the old shelves. The quality is amazing. The feel, the look, everything is amazing.

MoPac on the left, the V3 4-Leg Standing Desk in the middle, file cabinet on the right. The whole office finally matches.

Measure Your Baseboards

This one is on me, not UPLIFT, and it is the one piece of advice I would give anybody ordering these.

My plan was symmetry. Two cabinets and two bookshelves on the left side of the desk, and the same thing mirrored on the right. I measured, and on paper it was a perfect fit. What I did not consider was the baseboards. Once they were in the equation, the space came up about half an inch too short. I was not about to rip out baseboards for it, so the mirror will have to wait for a future, bigger office.

The right side of the desk, where stack number two was supposed to go. Half an inch of baseboard said no.

So take the tape measure down to the floor and measure baseboard to baseboard. Each MoPac Cabinet is 30 inches wide and 15 inches deep.

The Math

A single MoPac Cabinet is $229. A four-high stack in the configurator runs $928, and adding the MoPac Base there is $129 more ($139 on its own), so a four-high stack on a base is about $1,057 before any sale. That is more than a trip to Lowe's, and I know it, because I took that trip.

What the extra buys you: each cabinet is rated for 350 pounds static (stacked four high, UPLIFT puts the upper cabinets at about 210 pounds of contents combined), the top is a full inch thick, the laminate is Greenguard Gold certified, and the UPLIFT Desk 15-year warranty covers the MoPac system.

One more reason to measure twice: UPLIFT's return policy covers a single MoPac piece of each type, so read it before you order a stack. Measuring at the baseboard up front is a lot easier.

Who should skip it: if all you need is one open bookshelf that is never going to move, you do not need a modular system, and a trip to Lowe's will get the job done.

So thank you, UPLIFT, for being generous enough to send these over.

Every Dad Carry is reader-supported. UPLIFT Desk sent me these cabinets and the base free to review; they get no edits and no say in any rating. Links go through our UPLIFT affiliate account at no extra cost to you.