Shelves discussion.

Just like most people, I use shelves for my displays of action figures.

I've always disliked using the bottom shelves. They get dirty quicker and are harder to see. Besides putting books and magazines down there, I haven't figured out a better solution.

I think in my next house, I'll have built in wall shelves, but what to do with the space from the floor to the 2.5 - 3' mark? My first thought is to put cabinets with doors there (like you would see in a kitchen).

What do you do?

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ July 04, 2004 07:51 PM: Message edited by: EndQuest ]</font>

I keep my figures MOC so I don't use shelves.

The cabinets with doors sounds good. Maybe get doors with glass fronts so you can still display figs.

I stick all the bigger MOC boxes on the lower shelves, and the opened stuff up higher.

I know what you mean though...I hate that the stuff on the bottom isn't as visible. The only reason I have anything on the bottom shelves is because it looks stupid bare!

Doors are a good idea! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ July 04, 2004 07:55 PM: Message edited by: Shypappy ]</font>

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I stick all the bigger MOC boxes on the lower shelves, and the opened stuff up higher.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I do the exact same thing.

yeah, my bottom shelves all have the doors-
that space is perfect for all my old record albums~

One of the best options I've seen is to buy shop fitting shelves from stores that close down or renew their outlets.

Sometimes if you're lucky you can get ones with already built in lights and glass cabinets at a very cheap price.

I've never been lucky finding store shelves.

I still want to build a room full of these-

http://www.casketfurniture.com/items/bookshelf.jpg

How cool would an entire room of those shelves be !!

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Originally posted by Street Worm:
I still want to build a room full of these-

http://www.casketfurniture.com/items/bookshelf.jpg

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sweet!!! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]

And then one more set up as a bed to sleep in! [img]wink.gif[/img]

EQ - I use pieces of pine board from home depot that I cut, sand & stain. Then I attached them to a wall using brackets I order online. The brackets I use are $5 a piece but you can find them cheaper. The nice thing about this is that it keeps the display neat (something my wife appreciates) and you can just add shelves to the wall and go as high or low as you want. Each shelf costs about $17 to make.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...llection_2.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...llection_1.jpg

All of the walls in this room are covered with shelves but it's a pretty flexible set-up that's easy to add onto.

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ July 04, 2004 08:53 PM: Message edited by: madadman ]</font>

That's a nice clean look, madadman.

madadman,
Looks great! I like the look, but I'm going to have them built in. It's the look of the braces that I don't seem to like. It visually breaks things up for me. Don't know if that makes any sense or not.

Thanks, Sculpy. I'm anal. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Not sure what I'm going to do once I've run out of walls but I've got a little while before that happens.

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Originally posted by EndQuest:
madadman,
Looks great! I like the look, but I'm going to have them built in. It's the look of the braces that I don't seem to like. It visually breaks things up for me. Don't know if that makes any sense or not.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Totally makes sense. It's something I wrestle with all the time. In the long run I'd like to have a built in setup too - once I own my own place. If you can swing it it's probably the way to go.