Archive for March, 2011

White Boxes

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

At first glance, the shelves in the picture below look just like normal shelves: They’re not. They’re actually individual boxes, stacked up. The selling point? If you ever move you can just pick up your boxes and go. The downside, other than the fact that big boxes full of books are heavy, is that these [...]

Boardgame Shelves!

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

Chad “chaddyboy_2000″ Krizan over at BoardGameGeek.com built the shelves you see below, and I definitely have to say I am jealous! Due to the cumbersome shape of the boxes, displaying and storing board games properly requires custom (and deep) shelves. I am friends with a couple of board game collectors who I plan on sharing [...]

Fraze’s DIY Game Shelves

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

My friend Fraze sent me these pictures of his shelves forever ago and I’ve been sitting on them for just as long. Sorry, Fraze! About 2 years ago I too struggled with how to store my gaming and movie media. I specifically wanted something I could mount to a wall but was properly profiled and [...]

Staircase Shelves

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Shelves speak to me. This one says, “we are out of room in this house.” I love shelves as much as the next guy (probably more) but … I dunno. Not only might these push the wifey over the edge, but the books don’t look all that easy to access. I suppose for displaying a [...]

The Cave

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Pictures of “The Cave” have been floating around for a few years now. I’ve actually always kind of liked the idea of reading in small, claustrophobic spaces. I think this could be turned into a kick-ass gaming setup as well. I think you could build one of these to hold games, and mount a flat-screen [...]

Hidden Door

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Ok, so like, seriously — who, after watching Scooby Doo, hasn’t wanted a secret door like this one in their house? Unfortunately, this link came to me from makezine.com, who linked to a story from Lifehacker, who linked to another blog … which is now gone. ONly the picture remains. One of the goals of [...]

Building Bookshelves

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Ana-White.com posted a set of instructions on how to build these lovely shelves. As the instructions note, it would be pretty easy to alter the dimensions of this shelf to meet your own personal space requirements. They may cost a little more than the Sauder ones from Walmart, but they look like they would support [...]

Black Adjustable Shelves

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Of all the types of available shelves out there, these metal adjustable ones may be some of the cheapest, quickest, and easiest to assemble. I’m sure you’ve seen this type of shelf before. Assembly happens so quickly that it’s almost a non-issue. You can buy the support rails and wooden shelves at any home improvement [...]