Ideas, drawings, advice, designs required

[gadgie]

Thanks. I like the stairs idea as well.

I'm also looking at fitting my hi-fi in the space.

[awkwardbydesign]

If you can do the overstairs thing for most LPs/CDs, and have a smaller regular use shelving system on that wall, it would leave more room for the stereo. Another advantage of the overstairs storage is that you never have to paint the ceiling there! And as there is a landing in my house, the space above the records is now cupboards for towels, etc.

[mikmas]

Hi all,

The unit can be 1400mm wide and height...well I need to be able to reach whatever is up there.

Just did a bit of measuring and you can fit 100 LPs (mix of normal and gatefold) comfortably in a space 35 cm high x 40 cm wide so two shelves at the bottom should cope with your collection easily and take the height up to circa 80 cm. This leaves you enough space above that for a couple of shelves of hifi gear.

Alternatively you could divide the space vertically with shelves for LPs/CDs on the left and hifi units on the right ...(or vice versa)

Either way loads of space to fulfil your needs ....

[Marco]

Oh, OK. I tried to count/estimate but the picture was too fuzzy. (Must get out more!) Here's what 600 plus LPs looks like in my house.

Great idea, Richard...

Here's my collection when it was 'semi-sensible':





It's now grown to about half that much again.... Thank goodness I now also do streaming, so have around 25,000 albums stored on 8TB of hard drive space, so the LP and CD buying has slowed down a bit!

Marco.

[cargar]

Fuck me sideways with a dried out pineqaple husk I have NEVER seen a collection like that !!

Great idea, Richard...

Here's my collection when it was 'semi-sensible':





It's now grown to about half that much again.... Thank goodness I now also do streaming, so have around 25,000 albums stored on 8TB of hard drive space, so the LP and CD buying has slowed down a bit!

Marco.

[Marco]

Cheers, mate. However, there are plenty of folks with far bigger music collections than mine!

Marco.

[Tim]

So where do you store the original 25,000 albums you have ripped your collection to on the 8TB drives then Marco?

[Macca]

I think he has them under the stairs.

Officer.

[Tim]

Yeah right 😃

[shane]

I'm currently wrestling with a similar problem, and came across these on Ebay.



( full link here http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1118045787...xe=exe,ext=ext )

They look nicely made, and they're strong enough to be stacked up to make a unit big enough for most collections, with the system on top or within.

I enquired about bespoke sizes; they can do a box with internal dimensions of 400mm wide by 350mm high by 350mm deep, which would hold around about ninety albums, for about £10.25 each including VAT, plus delivery. The only problem is that they have a minimum order of 100! Sound a lot, but if you call it £1100 all in, its probably about the same as having a bespoke piece of furniture built. For your purposes, I guess you'd need about ten, so put the other ninety on Ebay and make yourself a tidy profit. Similar boxes sell individually for up to £35 ( http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vinyl-LP-1...UAAOSwHaBWim2T )

While you're at it, put me down for four of them!

I'd do it myself, but I don't have the capital or the space at the moment