Wood storage cubes, depending on the type, grade, and amount of wood in the content, can run a bit pricier than other modular furniture cubes available online or in your local big box store. Especially when you're making an online purchase, wood storage cubes may be heavier than other options, resulting in increased shipping costs. (Of course many online merchants, depending on the amount you're spending on the order, offer free or economical shipping.)
Solid Wood or Wooden Framework?
It's possible to find sturdy, solid wood storage cubes in a variety of beautiful wood grains and finishes. They certainly offer more stability and solid furniture value to your home decor. They also are going to be quite heavy and limit the portability and configurability that's at the center of the whole concept of storage cubes furniture. Simply put, solid wood cubes are going to be a lot more work if you want to do a quick reconfiguration of a room partition, bookcase, storage cabinet, or whatever that you've created from the cubes.
On the other hand, wood storage cubes made of a hollow core wood, or made from solid wood framework covered with veneer or even plastic, are a handier option. These cubes generally offer sturdy construction and the luxurious look of wood -- while giving you lighter weight and more maneuverability than solid wood cubes. It stands to reason that these would be a better option over solid wood for the average apartment dweller or homeowner.
Individual Cubes or Preconfigured Unit?
As will all makes and models of storage cubes, you need to make a fundamental decision about your furniture and decor when you shop for wood storage cubes. Are you looking for complete storage flexibility, or do you have a single, specialized piece of furniture in mind? Do you want building blocks or do you want a ready-made bookcase? The options are yours. Individual wood storage cubes, bought with a selection of wood colors and finishes, can be combined and recombined and set up in any room of your home. If you need a specific wood finish, say, mahogany or cherry, to create a quick room divider that might serve as a bookcase or to display figurines and other knickknacks, you can find such preconfigured units in many furniture stores both offline and online.
Wood Stain, Wood Veneers, or Natural Wood Colors?
What color or wood grains are you interested in when planning your wood storage cubes as part of your furniture and decor? If you want a variety of colors, ranging from maple to espresso, wood stain will give you what you're looking for. You can take a plain, pine or white pine cube, and make the color as dark and rich as you'd like to fit in with your decor. (One person's dark brown "espresso" color might be another's "dark cherry" or "dark mahogany, so be very careful to select stain colors visually to make sure they really do fit the decor you're trying to match!) A quality wood stain not only gives you pine colored like mahogany, if that's what you're seeking, but it will protect the wood and keep it looking good for years.
Wood veneers are simply very thin "slices" of wood -- sometimes compacted, but usually shaped literally by slicing wood -- that are given a finish to highlight the wood grain and color. These thin, inexpensive slices of wood are then glued to fiberboard or cheaper species of wood. A walnut veneer, therefore, will generally be cheaper than a solid walnut wood storage cube. Besides budgetary concerns, cubes made of hollow cores or cheaper, lighter woods, often are acceptable as fine furniture because of the beauty of a good veneer.
And, of course, if money is no consideration and you find the right manufacturer or supplier, you can buy wood cubes made entirely of whatever sort of wood fits your furniture and decor demands. You can find or have crafted (or even do-it-yourself) storage cubes and storage units made from pine, spruce, walnut, mahogany, walnut, cherry, or just about any wood you can imagine -- and that you can afford.