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Posted by aemeijers on July 20, 2008, 9:07 am
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>> heisdavesjunk@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I have alot of DVDs and I'm looking for a wall mounted cube storage
>>> unit like this...
>>>
>>> http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60071358
>>>
>>> When I went to look at it I found you can only store one row of DVDs
>>> in each cube, its too short to allow stacking them on top of each
>>> other and not wide enough to allow two, side by side, stacks.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a shelving unit like thisbut with cubes just a bit
>>> larger so I can fit all my DVDs in it.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>> Wow. 200 bucks for 20 bucks worth of wood. If you have any kind or
>> carpentry/woodworking skills at all, and access to a table saw (or even a
>> simple miter box), you can build your own purpose-built wall rack for that
>> kind of money. Doesn't even have to have any miters, just Very Square
>> 90-degree cuts. I'd make the outer box out of 2x6, or even 5/4 hardwood,
>> slot the vertical members, and use 1x for the shelves. CDs don't weigh
>> much- unless you make it real wide, you don't even really need the
>> vertical dividers, or you could just use jam-fit floating blocks cut to
>> the exact length between shelves. If you don't feel up to carpentry, and
>> don't mind paying a little cash, any local custom woodworking shop could
>> make something for you quite easily, sized to fit the wall area you want
>> to hang it on. They can even put a couple of back rails on it, to make it
>> stiffer and easier to hang on the wall. A shelf like this is about as
>> simple as custom cabinetry can get.
>
> It would be a nice project, but I think you are off on the cost. The outer
> perimeter is about 30 board ft. The dividers are about 50 board feet. Even
> low end priced wood is over $4. Do you think a wood shop will make that for
> anywhere near the $200 quoted?
>
> A few weeks ago I built a bookcase for my neighbor. 34" wide, 72" high. Oak
> plywood, oak trim, only 4 shelves. The material was $140. This is twice as
> wide and four times the dividers. Most wood shops charge at least 3x
> material.
>
>
My admittedly swag middle-of-the-night figures were based on the
material Ikea uses, and I should have put sarcasm quotes around 'wood'.
The Ikea product is skinned chipboard, which they make or buy by the
hectare. From the description on the web page, this thing is right up
there with the kit furniture Wally World sells, quality-wise.
Yes, to build it out of stain-grade wood would cost considerably more
than $20. But still less than $200, unless you went with hardwood. As
to what a woodshop would charge- I didn't mean to imply that they would
do it as cheap as Ikea, but that it would be a better product. A shelf
purpose-built for CDs would only need to be 6 inches or so deep, so as
to avoid hiding half the collection. Thinking about it more, now that I
am awake, if I had a huge CD collection and wanted wall storage, rather
than a difficult-to-transport 6'x6', I'd do several much lighter squares
2 or 3 feet on a side, each with a mounting rail, that could be hung on
the wall one at a time in whatever pattern worked for where I was living
at the time. I'd probably skin the backs, so they could be used to hold
the CDs when I moved, like giant versions of old soda pop cases.
--
aem sends...
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