is anyone "home"?

need some advice about diy shelving

what kind of advice?

is this a nu bord

i think it's existed for a while but appears to be abandoned. not sure what kind of advice just brainstorming how i can do some 18" wide wall shelves in this weird corner and not lose a lot of space to shelf brackets.

maybe post a pic of the corner

ok i will.

cinder blocks and pressboard obv

ok this is not a great picture because it looks like the bookcase (target, hate it) is against one of the walls in the corner. it's not. this corner is like a 19" x 14" pocket. another 9" to the left is the actual exterior wall. this is where they boxed around the forced air heating. so what i want to do is make some permanent wall shelving to put cookbooks and other things on. this is sort of in the "dining room" but it's a rowhouse so it's kind of shotgun. excuse the ugly paint color, horrific cabinets, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/m7nmuyE.jpg

well i guess you can't see how bad the paint is. it's yellow. i'm going to paint it before i do shelving. i was thinking get a board from salvage store, have them cut it up, stain it. but i'm not sure how i want to hang it. trying to find some L-brackets that will support it and not look dumb.

Space kinda says "triangular shelves" to me so you don't hook yourself on a shelf corner.

well that doorway is like 5 ft wide so i never get that close to it. also hate triangular shelves.

can we get a wider shot plz

of like the whole area where that bookshelf is, i feel like maybe u need to expand the scope of this project

Instead of brackets, could you use shelves that have a narrow post at each corner? I'm all about stand-alone shelving, probably b/c 1) renter 2) like to rearrange/repurpose.

here u go
http://i.imgur.com/D4SN6Kg.jpg

ha thank you, i mean the other way tho like if we are looking at the book shelf straight on, needless to say feel free to ignore these requests for pictures of yr home

oh. i see. i'm upstairs now. the wall i want shelves on is facing you though. the wall the bookshelf is on is not part of the project. or is it?

yeah thats what im asking myself, like you say you hate those shelves anyway right, lets challenge our assumptions about the boundaries of this project

Here's one idea, it looks like L brackets but on TOP of the shelves and spaced in from the edges so they get almost completely covered up by books.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2587/3786593986_58b6489934_b.jpg

well i want to put my cookbooks on the new shelves and get rid of the target bookcase. ^ this is kind of what i mean. i'd like the L-brackets to be even more out of the way though. maybe it's fine. you can get sturdy L-brackets not made for shelves that are shorter i just need to remember enough physics to know how short they can be. can't find the answer in all the mom blogs i sifted through.

http://www.homedepot.com/b/Storage-Organization-Shelves-Shelf-Brackets/Brackets/N-5yc1vZc89kZ1z0tuqv?cm_sp=PLP-_-bnr-_-d59-_-shelves_shelving-_-brackets

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Sorry, that link doesn't go to the individual item I wanted to show, which was this.

ha i have employed that very bracket before

http://cds.a9t2h4q7.hwcdn.net/main/store/20090519001/items/media/Hardware/KNAPE001/ProductLarge/0122-7PM.jpg

I've gone with these bracket systems in a bunch of different situations. Height is adjustable, depth is adjustable, I can get as wild as I want with color using unpainted pine boards instead of standard white/black/blond prefinished boards. In my office I have a high 10" deep shelf for LP size box sets & oversize books that overhangs 6" shelves for CDs.

oh, the brackets are really on top. i thought the bottom of the L was underneath. that seems a bit dangerous.

i was actually going to go with the track shelves because i used them somewhere else but the space is just too narrow for it not to look clunky.

i think i am biased against those track shelves because that was what was in my childhood bedroom.

what are the walls made of? Is it old school plaster and lath or ....?

freestanding bookcases are nice if you have walls where you have to do things like drill through brick or have plaster and lath that is secretly crumbling

i grew up and live in the land of earthquakes so my instinct would be to put a sheet of 1/4" or 1/2" plywood up, paint it till it looks ok, and then install the shelves.

what about floating shelves?

http://www.floating-shelves.com/beech-floating-shelves.html

yeah i think that is what i'm going to end up doing. i can just drill into the boards. the brackets seem hard to find/expensive though. i've been looking.

walls are just wood frame and drywall so no issue hanging shelves elsewhere in the house. earthquakes not an issue!

Don't have anything substantive to add but am thriled to see the book behind the legendary curry chronicles pictured

hey, home thread cool. I spent my vacation days on putting in a new shelf that I'm very happy with. it used to skip like crazy before and now I can jump up and down in front of it.

http://altairnouveau.com/IMG_9399.jpg

also, on topic, here are shelves that we put up a while back.

http://altairnouveau.com/IMG_9401.jpg

not really a light touch at all, but I like bracket shelves that kind of lay the hardware right out. floating shelves or other minimal solutions seem kind of fussy to me maybe?

uh should be "a new turntable shelf" and "it (being the turntable) used to skip like crazy"

we have ugly baseboard heating. thus all the wall-mounted shelves.

i like ur setup

thanks. a turntable in every room someday.

is that an onkyo i have one that looks a lot like it from a distance

the tuner

pioneer sa-8500

I really want a black sansui amp though:

http://img.canuckaudiomart.com/uploads/large/141222-sansui_au20000_integrated_amp.jpg

huh maybe the one i was thinking of was pioneer? idk i just looked for it not sure i still have it lol

it's a great amp that I bought in a thrift store in astoria, oregon close to 10 years ago

vintage 2-channel receivers are the best things

where are those colored clamp lamps from? they're really cool

i like those shelves. i just don't want the hardware here because it's a small space.

kinda going back and forth though. i don't always like the look of floating either.

Chinavision - that's a Marantz on the book shelf, right? Is that a Rega on the small shelf?

I agree, very nice setup. What do you do for vinyl storage?

know what, i'm gonna think about those track shelves again. the white looks cool. it looks like a place where someone lives, not some bullshit on pinterest.

first picture: thorens td-160 and pioneer sa-8500
second picture: marantz 6200 turntable and model 2238 receiver

the lamps are ikea

and most records are on ikea shelves, with a lot of twelve inches around the corner in my studio, which is very messy. if I could I'd replace the shelves with something white.
plus a gratuitous shot of our mantle.

http://www.altairnouveau.com/indulgent.jpg

the hardware of those shelves seems less bulky/intrusive bc its the same color as the walls

i think it wld be good tho

i think it would be too i just don't want to make the space any narrower

fair, considering you have actually seen the space in question

I own a few books on decluttering, they're on my coffee table under some beer bottles

clutter book discussed here btw discussed here Getting Things Done (GTD) - Cult or Awesome?

wow all 9 of the library's copies of that are checked out

ha damn

i can't read the GTD thread. i am sometimes inspired by stupid blog posts about getting things done but trying to implement them makes my brain feel like a knot.

i am def not a GTD person just in it for the decluttering, which tbf i am already pretty into, its just like an interest of mine

i love when things are not cluttered too. you wouldn't know it looking at my office or house though.

i only located the declutter talk in GTD via an excelsior post

the main take away from that book seems throw everything you dont absolutely adore or use constantly away in one swoop then make sure everything thats left has an assigned place to be put away, i only read the first chapter tho, i think theres advice abt how to specifically organize stuff too

the lady is quite a charming loon too telling stories about how she loved to read articles about how to clean things when she was a kid

i bought it because the title claims tidying up is magical and i believe that

we just ripped out track shelving but it looked awful in a georgian living room. want to replace it with tall cupboards/cabinets we can cover in wallpaper but not sure you can get ones tall and narrow enough. or maybe you can and they're called wardrobes idk

this kind of thing: http://flodeau.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Cole-Son-Circus-wallpaper-FLODEAU.COM-1.jpeg

hot

i apologize in advance for this horrifically ugly pic

http://designlike.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/countryliving.jpg

WHAT is the thing on the left hand/upper side of the pic that appears to be holding dried flowers in its base

A water dispenser/vat with a spiggot at the bottom and a basin to catch drips? Is my best guess.

Every time I look at the sheer number of flowered things I start laughing though so I'm a lil distracted.

ya some sort of olde timey sink

hahha i know im soo sorry

kind of tempted to start an "ugliest interior design pics" thread

that is beautifully hideous

i esp love the (of course flowered) "happy birthday" tray on far right

D:

going to redo my entire house in this motif

inside and out

before i even scrolled down to your post beneath the image, my first thought was 'wtf is that awesome thing on the wall'

I know it's potpourri in that stupid thing under it, but I decided you put dried mushrooms in there and it's a mushroom rehydrating device

finally, a real answer

chinese water torture device for unruly babies

i put up the shelves. i'll take a picture when my kitchen is clean again (lol, never). i used white track shelving and a cheap pine board i got cut up at home depot. i'll paint it white when it's warm out. looks fine! i might get that magic decluttering book.

home diaries

upstairs hallway light bulbs die. upon taking shade off i notice there was only one 40w bulb in there. got new bulbs. realize i was not paying attention and the things you screw in were the small size. get bulbs again. install. absentmindedly put screws holding lip of glass shade to ceiling fitting on way too tight. shade cracks into pieces from pressure of screws 1 min later. SO STUPID.

I need a giant rug and thinking of getting a piece of carpet bound on the edges - anyone done this?

How giant does this rug need to be?

about 10.5 x 11.5 feet? Not sure actually, going to play around with the rug we have to see where's best to put it.

i need a rug too, what are some good rugs?

I fantasize about filling my house w layers of rugs from overstock.com tbh

Thanks, that's the kind of place I was looking for

I think they have lots of nice looking ones. I wish the sort function worked slightly more specifically but actually it's pretty good.

still not got a rug, bookcases or blinds.
Do have sofas and gorgeous wallpaper in my dining room, although the rest of the room is covered in highchair/playpen/baby food

Got a room with walls painted grey - need some colour in it, especially a blind (one of the ones I still don't have from November 2015 apparently). I like some yellow fabrics but is grey&yellow going to be too played out from Pinterest in the near future?

If you like it, you like it. Some colors go together.

gray goes well with a lot of colors. yellow, red, purple, and green all match w/ it well imo

Was considering doing a shari vari in the back of our bookshelves but decided to go for a single colour instead. Which should match/complement the blind.

To be more specific, different grays go with different other colors. It's more about the shading than anything. There are a million grays.

indeed
also "do what you like" otm

i am trying to be less of a slob. that's my current home improvement project.

me too! stop being so disgusting. also re-start painting. i'm acknowledging i'm never going to *want* to paint. so i need to stop waiting to want to paint.

I've transcended from clutter to actually dirty around here, took day off work for mental health reasons and am going to try to get some cleaning done!

be less disgusting otm
my breaking point came when i saw something hiding behind the grapefruit and made the mistake of reaching out to touch it and it was an extremely decrepit pear ;_;
pretty gross

me too! stop being so disgusting. also re-start painting. i'm acknowledging i'm never going to *want* to paint. so i need to stop waiting to want to paint.

― assawoman bay (harbl), Friday, February 24, 2017 9:09 AM (three hours ago)

i have the desire to paint, de-clutter and clean when I'm totally slammed with work and don't have time to do these things -- also, the desire is an escape mechanism -- putting off one thing in favor of something else that isn't as immediately necessary but easier. bedroom really needs paint, as it hasn't been painted in almost 20 yrs (as in right before I moved in). But I'm going to wait until summer or at least warmish spring, so I can open the windows to air out the paint smell.

When I'm pushed to action with a really busy week at work I feel the obligation to be _on_ when I'm home, too

which is horrible because slow times at work would be the perfect time to get a lot of home stuff done but I slow down

first time i've seen this thread. chinavision!'s pad's feng shui is off the charts