how to make and find room for your dvd and anime collection

Animefreak17

Animefreak17

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ok i know one or two of you have this problem with room to put you figures, dvds and so on. And theres are some of you that puts your collections in boxes (card board city) to store them or you dont have anywhere to put you shelfs cause of the lak of room.
so how do we solve this problem.
1 have someone custom make your shelfs to any size to fit in any space. even its a small space but big enuff to fit your dvds in will suffice. ( iv had this done and it works)
2 find shelfs to stick on the wall ( im going to do this when i run out of room)
3 try make space, put all things you got out and tidy up a bit and try tekkening you stuff, put away things behind the things you want to see but tidy like.
4 for people who has dvds i suggest dvd towers for single and shelf towers for boxsets thats tall but not wide for you who hasn't got space for widen rooms
 
The easiest option is to do the student option. Breeze Blocks and wood. Most DIY stores will cut boards of wood to size for you and you can use the Breeze Blocks as supports. Used this in my student days when I had limited space and its very secure as long as the shelves are reasonably filled.

Most building suppliers will also sell the Breeze Blocks for practically nothing. Could make a to size wall of shelves for as little as £40-50.

Cheap and easy to make.
 
butch-cassidy said:
The easiest option is to do the student option. Breeze Blocks and wood. Most DIY stores will cut boards of wood to size for you and you can use the Breeze Blocks as supports. Used this in my student days when I had limited space and its very secure as long as the shelves are reasonably filled.

Most building suppliers will also sell the Breeze Blocks for practically nothing. Could make a to size wall of shelves for as little as £40-50.

Cheap and easy to make.
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i had all mine custom made
 
Most of my anime collection either goes into the back of my wardrobe or piled behind my TV, as for other DVDs I have them in a tower
 
memorium said:
Most of my anime collection either goes into the back of my wardrobe or piled behind my TV, as for other DVDs I have them in a tower
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yeah but i like to display mine so i can see them, so if im thinking of watching something i can look at them have have a good think which to watch
 
Just start piling them up on the floor. As long as you leave paths to the useful areas of your home (sofa, cooker, bathroom, bed, exterior doors optional) you'll be fine. What's all that floor space doing otherwise? Nothing, that's what.
 
ayase said:
Just start piling them up on the floor. As long as you leave paths to the useful areas of your home (sofa, cooker, bathroom, bed, exterior doors optional) you'll be fine. What's all that floor space doing otherwise? Nothing, that's what.
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:lol:

Y'know, in a fashion.... he's right.

And i'll be using this as reference for the future, whenever i'm asked why the room is a mess. Just going to say that i'm making use of otherwise empty space.
 
Tachi said:
ayase said:
Just start piling them up on the floor. As long as you leave paths to the useful areas of your home (sofa, cooker, bathroom, bed, exterior doors optional) you'll be fine. What's all that floor space doing otherwise? Nothing, that's what.
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:lol:

Y'know, in a fashion.... he's right.

And i'll be using this as reference for the future, whenever i'm asked why the room is a mess. Just going to say that i'm making use of otherwise empty space.
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it'll be a hassle trying to clean tho. to be honest if i have to il try getting some wall shelfs going around my room but the problem is that im afraid that they'll one day they'll fall off but im thinking of getting someone to costom make a shelf that touches the floor to the ceiling. even if you pile them on the floor there going to get knocked over, damage, ect. altho you could buy some of those special boxes from the argos thats made to keep dvds in and pile them up
 
ayase said:
Just start piling them up on the floor. As long as you leave paths to the useful areas of your home (sofa, cooker, bathroom, bed, exterior doors optional) you'll be fine. What's all that floor space doing otherwise? Nothing, that's what.
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Lol, don't think my parents would be too amused at that idea, besides my DVD collection isn't that big so that's not a problem... yet, compared to my CD collection...
 
AF17, i don't really understand why you'd go spend money on someone to come and make you some "custom made shelves" when all you need to do is to go down to argos and buy a shelving unit, or failing that build your own shelves, its mind boggling.

B&Q, buy some pine or beech, a saw, some sandpaper, surely you have a screwdriver or black and decker at home and a chisel. Give yourself a weekend and just go at it, not overly complicated to make and use the chisel to make the corners smooth and rounded. I did design technology and part or that was to learn how to work metal, wood and plastic, so believe me its simple to put a shelf together.

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If you've got the extra money to get a guy in to custom make some shelves then why not use that money on buying bigger shelves in the first place?
 
yeah you see my room is very small and each time i run out of room i get someone to make the shelfs for me, i give them the measurements and they make them to the size i need them to be,
i have thought of buying a big shelf from argos but i dont have the room to put it. but costom made jobs are better cause if you need them to be a exact size of what your looking to put it in the space that you want it to go then theses no worrys

e.g.
i have a desk bunk bed and i measured the width and hight of the space and then i draw a plan out of the shelf width and hight and so on and i could fit 6 shelf on it and it fits perfectly in that space.

but if i brought a shelf from argos that had only 3 shelf on it and i took up more space or less space............. ya know
 
granted measurments for the general size are helpful, but surely it costs more to get someone to build it for you? Personally i'd make them myself if needed be, to cut costs and if anything goes wrong i can fix it on the spot rather than sending it off again to be corrected, but thats just my preference i guess.

As for the shelves themselves, there's nothing stopping you from going to B&Q and buying more wood and shelving unit brackets that plug into holes you part drill into the unit itself. (usually holes are already made on shelving units so you can adjust height so that wouldn't be a problem) so theoretically you buy a storage unit with 3 shelves in it.... after a dab of DIY you have 6 shelves in the same space, so your using the space more effectively. I did this for a purpose built shelf for my manga, with a 12mm gap between the top of the manga and the shelf above (space to put my finger in and ge tthe book out without having a 5-10 cm gap for no reason)
 
To give an alternate perspective I would never bother making my own shelving; I'm terrible at crafting and they'd end up looking awful, not to mention the time involved. To make enough shelves to hold my collection would take months. Hurrah for paying someone else more competent to do it.

It would be nice if they all fit the contents perfectly, but since companies such as NIS exist there will always be weirdly shaped items ruining the look of it. I just bury the stuff in more stuff until the aesthetics no longer matter. Sort of need a bigger house though.

At my school we never got to learn anything useful, though even if we had done metalwork etc I think I'd still have ended up rubbish at it.

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