For those of us who shake in terror at the thought of pruning CDs...
Posted by Chimney Singing Crow on 3 September 2008 - 1:25pm.
Has anyone got any good recommendations on places to buy CD cabinets that can store a lot of CDs (2000+) and are easy on the eye - preferably wooden?
The only way I can keep them in the living room is if they are housed in some sort of attractive housing.
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Beware, slippery slope ahead!
I've been down this route:
Step 1: 'You had better find some way of storing all these CDs'
Step 2: 'You had better get another of those cabinets'
Step 3: (see step 2)
Step 4: 'You had better get rid of those cabinets'
The outcome? A purpose built, eye wateringly expensive, wall encompassing piece of furniture in which all my CDs are now kept out of sight.
I'm moving over to downloads!
Gavin
I feared this might be the case
But I can't get into downloads unless I'm not that bothered about the artist.
I swell with pride whenever I look at my wall of CDs, sad though that is.
Scale could be a problem
I only had 500 to deal with - also some vinyl though. 2000 would have been more of a problem. We used these people - http://www.nevillejohnson.co.uk/. The website shows you what they can do; some of their approaches would still allow you to display the CDs - if you wanted to/were allowed to!
Gavin
Chippie
Hire a carpenter and have them build something bespoke. This way your shelves can be designed to precisely fit the location you have available for them: increased neatness, more room for CDs, less wasted space.
But a good one...
... I had one build some shelving for my vinyl years ago and the bloody lot fell down. Each time I look at the dented corners of my otherwise-pristine albums I think of him and my blood boils still.
What's this carpenter nonsense?
Build your own. We're talking about planks and right-angles here, nothing complicated.
I'm no chippie but I made my own CD + DVD shelves over a weekend, and very proud of them I am too.
What's this carpenter nonsense?
Absolutely - use a joiner rather than a chippy. You won't get splinters and the shelves will not be held up with nails.
Jeez
We have a spare bedroom that once had high cupboards, just perfect for 100s of LPs and 12" singles. They finally gave way under the strain in the middle of the night. I can now imagine what it must feel like to be in the middle of an earthquake when everthing comes crashing down in slow motion.
adverts
Other magazines that I used to read had adverts in for this sort of storage, as well as adverts for CDs and other merchandise. Is there a reason why Word does not have similar smaller ads? Is it a magazine choice or a perception amongst advertisers of the nature of the Word massive?
storage advertising
We have contacted a lot of storage companies in regards to advertising as it would be environmentally perfect, and obviously as this conversation proves, worthwhile for the advertiser! However WORD has no classified section in the back of the magazine, and a lot of the storage companies only have artwork and budget to take a tiny advertising space, not a quarter page (which is the smallest we can accomodate).......
I will look in to it further though as there is such a demand :)
Thanks
Juliet
Carpenter
I got a local carpenter to build some shelves and they've worked out pretty well. There's about a 1000 cds on the wall and a similar amount in a floor-standing cabinet.
Plus points are that you can get them made to measure, you can see the actual materials used before they get installed and you may be supporting a bit of local industry.
ps.
try www.reddisplays.com
CD's on display in the living room
is something I recall from my single life. They are now on the wall in the study (which is my room more or less). There seems to be a largely male pride in displaying your collection of stuff which is not especially attractive to women (despite what we think).
CDs on display
I'm single and live alone. That in itself is not big and it's not clever, but having them all on display across the largest wall in the living room is great and always makes me happy!
What's more, various exes have been unbothered by them, or even quite liked them being there if they shared my musical taste. So it's possible not to have to lose that when you stop being single, I think. I hope.
The big move
I'm moving house soon, I currently have 2 of these in the living room:
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/8752484/c_1/1%7Ccat_101...
...plus a couple of crates and a small set of shelves in the kitchen. I'm aiming to buy a third set of the above, but there is some debate about where they will be positioned in the new place. She wants me to cover them with some kind of curtain! I'm not convinced that is the way forward...
The more discreet the better
The more discreet the better but a curtain is too discreet. I think the compromise is around having it functional but not on display. And when she wants to put her collection of beanie babies in the living room, you have a substantial precedent to rely on.
I've got three pieces of furniture from
John Austin Furniture.
I have 2 cd cabinets(one has a special couple of shelves to hold my couple of hundred mini-discs)and a coffee table.
Their stuff certainly isn't cheap but it really is top quality. Also their customer relations are superb. I had a problem with the colour of the coffee table(I bought it a year after the cd cabinets)and they took it back and made me a new one!!
http://www.john-austin-furniture.co.uk/
an alternative
option is to store them out of site. My brother has done this with his enormous DVD collection. He bought a case (looks like a flight case that bands use to lug their gear around only smaller)that holds 800 discs and threw the boxes away.
I personally couldn't throw away any CD cases but they could be stashed in the loft.
I abandoned the living room...
two and a half years ago and moved house to a new one with a big spare room for the CD collection.
Kitted it out with Billy's from Ikea - cheap as chip(board)s and hold loads. Probably not ideal for a living room depending on your other furniture!
Sadly, the spare room is already looking a bit rammed so I'm wondering how to fit an extra Billy in...
Where are you?
Dunno where you are but my local furniture shop do a great line in bookshelves which they can have built to any spec - then they fit the shelves at exactly the right gaps for CDs (they have a template for it) and deliver the bugger. North Herts. I put a pic of it on the other thread on culling. I looked at the Red Displays ones which are lovely but they ain't half expensive. Another avenue I explored is shop fitting suppliers - and there are ones doing second hand shop fittings - who do all manner of lightweight shelving.