When we bought our house I was trying to figure out where to put everything and what new furniture I would need to buy. Bookcases were high on the list. Not looking for high end furniture, I decided to search online. There are over 9000 bookcases on Amazon.com! I spent a lot of time looking through hundreds that weren't even the right size let alone the right color or style. There wasn't any way to search by size reliably either.

Why was I so concerned about size? When I was searching for the perfect bookcases for our office I ended up buying based on price, style, customer reviews, and shipping costs. I didn't, however, pay enough attention to size. The bookcases ended up being much smaller than I expected. Barely 4 feet tall. Now I pay much closer attention to the dimensions! In fact, I can quote the exact size of bookcase I am looking for to use in the kitchen for cookbooks and as a shelf for my Aerogarden. It has to be less than 30 inches to fit under the chair rail molding, and I'd like it to be wider than 36 inches so there is lots of room.

I browsed through hundreds of bookcases on Amazon looking for short and wide items. I even looked at console tables to see if they would match my space. Amazon doesn't seem to index the item dimensions in a way that allows us to search through them. This gave me an idea though. I still haven't bought the bookcase I want, but I've narrowed it down to two. One is a little bit too tall and the other is a little bit too long.

So the solution? Measuredfit.com. The Measured Fit website will let you narrow the list of bookcases on Amazon by entering the width, depth and/or height of the space you have to fill. You can restrict it with all three ranges or just one or just minimum or maximum sizes. The items on the site all come from Amazon and mostly include bookcases, but I want to add other types of furniture very soon. I'm hoping that people will start to make suggestions.