Archive for February, 2011

Tetris Shelves

Friday, February 25th, 2011

If you’re into video games and you’re into shelves, you’ve probably run across these in one form or another. The problem? These (the unpainted ones) are $700. These, with the colored backings, are $1,300. Plus shipping. Or, I believe you can order them for $120 per block. For the record, for $120 you can easily [...]

Shelf House (I’ve Died and Gone to Heaven)

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

No, you haven’t died and gone to Heaven. Needing a place to “store his large book collection,” the owner of this 560 square foot Japanese home turned to the Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio, who covered essentially every available wall with shelves. The only thing that could make this house more awesome is if there were [...]

Goodwill Hunter’s Rafter-Hung Shelves

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Goodwill Hunter is back again with some great looking DVD/Video Game shelves for his basement. Unlike his previous, floor-standing shelves, these were designed to hang from the rafters in his basement. Check it out! My gameroom has once again reached “unholy mess” status. Unfortunately, I have run out of gameroom space, and am forced to [...]

Here’s something you don’t see everyday …

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

… shelf humor. Thanks Mike!

Stackable Cardboard Shelves

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

Although I suspect these are more proof-of-concept than actual product (it’s hard to tell; the original site’s in French), I thought the idea was interesting enough to share. Designed Dany Gilles has created a set of interlocking/stackable shelves, made from recycled cardboard. While I’m sure the designer was pushing the “made from recycled materials” angle, [...]

Goodwill Hunter’s Genesis Shelves

Monday, February 14th, 2011

Goodwill Hunter is a man after my own heart. When you fill up your shelves, you don’t get rid of things — you build more shelves! Here is another example of shelf building by Goodwill Hunter. This guy is to shelves what I am to … writing about shelves. Take it away, GWH! The shelves [...]

Goodwill Hunter’s Custom Game Shelves

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

The following tutorial, originally posted by Goodwill Hunter on Digital Press, was one of the original inspirations for this website. GWH did a terrific job of utilizing the space he had available, and the finished product looks completely professional. So good, in fact, that I once threatened to kidnap Mr. Hunter, chain him up in [...]

Trim Upgrade

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Yesterday, Destri over at The Mother Huddle demonstrated upgrading a cheap set of shelves by adding trim to them. It’s definitely a topic I’ve been wanting to cover, and since hers came out better than mine I decided to show off hers instead. The first thing Destri did was pick up these cheap (and cheap [...]

MachineGex’s Corner NES Shelves

Monday, February 7th, 2011

When reader Tom (MachineGex) saw this oddly-shaped corner in his game room, he did what any of us would do — he squeezed some custom shelves in there to display his massive collection of Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games! From Tom: “The NES shelf is actually two separate shelves. If you look at the bottom, [...]

TEEBooks Invisible Shelves

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Unlike many of us who take pride in showing off our shelves, TEEBooks’ approach is to hide the shelves altogether.