Shelfy help needed

[venta]

I need to get some shelves on which to store that part of my CD collection[*] which doesn't fit into the tower I bought it last year.

Can anyone recommend (preferably inexpensive) shelves which will do the following:

(a) fix securely to a flimsy wall.
(Yes, it's an outside, and alledgedly load-bearing, wall. Sadly, our house was built by nutters who thought swiss cheese was a valid alternative to brick)

(b) for related reasons, be reasonably light

(c) give good CD-storage for amount-of-wall-covered.
(I'm currently 80 CDs worth of shelf space under the odds...)

[*] Sadly, plans to nail the CDs directly to the wall, glue them to the ceiling, or otherwise cause them to hover above the stereo have all had to be dismissed as unworkable.

Comments

Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[condign.livejournal.com]

I'd say I actually prefer Argos's stuff to Ikea. Not that it's any better, but it's cheaper, sometimes as good, and not any more tacky than Ikea.

Me, I'm one of those musical philistines that likes the music but figures the packaging is all marketing artwork made to get you to buy into the whole 'artistic image' thing. The vast majority of my collection rests in two carrying-cases, leaving me with a lot of jewel boxes that I use/give away/throw away. The reduction in space that results (important to those of us who move alot) is amazing.

You live with Mr. 'I'm a Refugee from a DIY Show Like Big Strong Guys or Changing Rooms' Tool Guy, though--couldn't you get him to buy you some material and make you some shelves?

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[venta.livejournal.com]

couldn't you get him to buy you some material and make you some shelves?

Wooden shelves would be too heavy for the wall, probably, and I don't think Andy's extrusion-moulding-of-plastic skills are up to scratch yet...

Plus buying some and putting them up myself will probably be quicker :)

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[triskellian]

The abandonment of jewel boxes works very well if you can fit your CD collection into just two cases. Where it falls down is if the CD collection in question (of which only about one in five actually belongs to you) fits into about twelve cases, which resist labelling and have been designed by someone without the foresight required to put little plastic label-pockets on the outside. Then what happens is you look through every single one of the cases before finally finding the CD you're after, and you never get to casually cast an eye over your music collection to see what you fancy playing, because it takes too damn long...

;-)

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[condign.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. My CD collections have a nicely inventoried printout from an Access database which I update whenever I add something, saying what's in the collection.

But somehow I think that's just me.

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[venta.livejournal.com]

*mutter* *mutter* Allvirgoansshouldbeshot *mutter*

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[condign.livejournal.com]

Erm... isn't that message tantamount to suicide, or do I forget your birthday?

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[venta.livejournal.com]

I'm not a Virgoan, I just happen to be born in August. Vigoanism is a state of mind :)

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Isn't Vigoanism "being a fan of Aragorn?"

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, I was about to correct that typo.

Actually, I'm not very well versed in Tolkien, so I don't get the joke, I'm afraid ;)

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Not so much a Tolkein joke as an actor joke, and it could equally well be a fan of the devil.
Too few 'g's as well.

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Not taking you to see the last film then!

(Viggo Mortensen plays Aragorn)

Re: Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[condign.livejournal.com]

OK, this runs you into a problem.

Unless wimble is born in the right time period, then either:

a) Virgoanism seems to have little to do with birthdays, or

b) What you call Virgoanism is just... well, put kindly, a tendency towards certain types of organisation. :)

If you don't claim your Virgoanism...

[condign.livejournal.com]

If you don't claim your Virgoanism then you can't enjoy the appropriateness of this more-than-wonderful Onion horoscope for this week:

Virgo: (Aug. 23—Sept. 22)
Your inhuman thirst for blood will finally be slaked this week, leaving you with just a normal, human thirst for blood.

And here I was hoping we could go hunting together...