Mezzo Artist Paint and Brush Rack - Wood Grain Laminate Multi Layer Desk Stand Professional Storage Display Organizer for Paintbrushes Tubes Rotating (MZZ-BRUSH)

As an oil painter, I like to store my paint tubes top down, and was hoping that this organizer would accommodate that, even though it is designed for the tubes to fit with the crimped end in the slots on the “floor.” It does exactly what I need it to do, and I don’t have to worry about the upside down paint tubes falling over & knocking the other tubes out of place. I like the organization & being able to see everything at a glance.I don’t often purchase the large tubes of paint, so the majority of the places for large tubes are unused until I can find a purpose for them. I would have liked an option to purchase a set with two of the racks that hold 18 small-to-medium tubes of paint, because that is what I am most in need of. It can be purchased separately, so that is an option, but it would be nice to have it all in one cost effective kit.Assembly is pretty easy for the most part. There is one little nit with the assembly of the unit for the smaller tubes: there is a definite front edge to the cross pieces that hold the bodies of the paint tubes, but there is no marking that delineates front from back. The tabs on either end of the cross pieces are slightly off center and are meant for the shorter sides to be placed facing front. If the pieces are not put into the unit correctly, it affects the ability to secure the final piece… but the problem goes unnoticed until the very end because everything appears to fit nicely until then.Once I disassembled and reassembled correctly, there was no issue. Neither of the other two modules of the system had this little issue. I think the instructions for this particular module could more clearly point out the difference & show the right way to place those cross pieces into the assembly.

I recently purchased the Mezzo Artist Paint & Brush Rack set of 3 racks and I'll begin by saying that the racks are a lot bigger than they look online and they're a lot better quality and sturdier than I expected. I thought that they'd be flimsy and made of particle board, but they're actually made of wood and once you've got them put together, they're solid and they hold items well. They're also really easy for even a clumsy person like myself to put together, as the instructions are clear and simple.Having said that, I'm disappointed that they aren't great for watercolor supplies, which are shorter and smaller overall than oil and acrylic tubes and brushes. The brush holders are made for much longer brushes, so when you put watercolor brushes into the holders, they almost disappear; this means that you'd have to pull the brushes out by their bristles, which obviously is very bad unless you use cheap brushes. You can make it work for the brushes if you take off the top portion of the brush holders, but I imagine that will make it somewhat less sturdy. I'm going to give this a try, as I don't want to have to send them back.The real problem is with the paint tube holders: They were made to fit acrylic and oil tubes, so, even though they're smaller than the giant tube holders, they're still too tall for watercolor tubes. If you set the watercolor tubes in just right, with the edges sitting exactly inside of the slit at the bottom, then the tubes will fit and not fall, but if you're off by even a little, they'll just fall through. Also, partially empty tubes won't fit - they're too short, so they'll fall through. This can be rectified by placing a couple of sponges below the tubes, I think, but you'll need to get 3 or 4 sponges and cut them to fit properly to make it work.I'm going to find ways to make this system work for me by doing the DIY things I mentioned above, but I hope that at some point, Jerry's Artarama will make a version specifically for watercolor, as our tools are very different from oil and acrylic painters' tools.Overall, it's a great set, so I can highly recommend it generally, particularly if you paint in either oil or acrylic, but just be aware that you'll need to make adjustments to make it work for watercolor.*I took off a single star because it doesn't fit watercolor tools and I wish they'd have put that in the description, but if I'm just rating the quality of the item and not the description, then I'd rate it 5 stars.*

So I really liked these racks when I saw them and for the first one that I made for the corner rack it was a breeze, the assembly is clear about the directions you want to have things facing, and the elastic band system was very well suited to allowing for small adjustments and easy attachment, but there were some very notable challenges I encountered.First, one of my two linear racks included the exact directions as the other. At first, I thought this meant that the two racks would be mostly the same, but after building the one I had directions for, I soon saw from the remaining pieces that their construction was not at all the same.While the corner and the first linear rack were built by first attacking a middle section to a flat base, this third rack instead attached three flat shelves to one of the end pieces and then slid the shelves through the middle section before attaching the other end piece. I encountered a lot of issues with being unable to get the upper portion of each shelf to fit into their indented sections when I realized the three shelves that look the same and are marked the same need to be placed at specific tiers in the rack. so I had to take them out and then attach them all, but at least now they fit properly.All in all, I didn't have any issues with the elastics for the first two racks, and there seemed to be far more than needed, but thank goodness for that since while making the third rack I broke 6 bands.I am hoping that what happened to me was just a mistake of packaging and is not a common problem since other than that these racks look amazing and I can't wait to use them.

I’m so happy with storage solution, so easy to see all paints organised. Holes a tiny bit small for tubes, so bending the base of each Matisse tube worked fine.

They do the job but are a little flimsy.