Bookcases

[grace86]

Moved in at my new place and I thought I would be blessed with a bookcase from my father. Well things changed and I won't be able to have his bookcase but I am still in great need of finding some shelving unit that looks nice and is pretty good quality...but at a very reasonable price...I'm a poor university student! :D

Any recommendations on some websites or where I might look?

Thanks.

[Poppy]

Moved in at my new place and I thought I would be blessed with a bookcase from my father. Well things changed and I won't be able to have his bookcase but I am still in great need of finding some shelving unit that looks nice and is pretty good quality...but at a very reasonable price...I'm a poor university student! :D

Any recommendations on some websites or where I might look?

Thanks.

When I was in college I had some cinder block and 1 by 12 lumber shelves.

Just stack the cinder blocks (paint them if you like) or if you have access to some old brick use that. Go to the lumber yard and have them cut you some 1 x 12's in lengths you want and be creative how you stack it all up. Just be careful if you imbibe to much and are crawling around on your hands and knees and run into the bookcase :bawling: Ouch, been there...:crash:

[papayahed]

IKEA is always good for cheap fairly decent furniture.

[Niamh]

try some antique or curio's shops. Sometimes you can get things for real cheap!

[stlukesguild]

Having some 2500+ books I find it an impossibility to have these all of these housed in the sort of lovely bookshelves I would certainly prefer. I do have one very nice old "lawyer's shelf" which has glass doors which drop down in front of the books keeping them dust-free. Most of my shelves, however, were self-built:

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Pine planks about 7" deep work just fine and a good 6 or 7 foot unit can be constructed in a few minutes and for very little cost. The shelves can be varnished, stained, or painted and you can devise the height of each shelf to meet your own requirements. These shelves have served me well and are able to bear far more weight than one of those crappy shelves from the department stores made from compress board (and they are actually far easier and faster to build). Of course, as a visual artist who must construct his own stretchers and frames I have quite a bit of carpentry experience and all the right tools... but seriously, all that is really needed beyond the wood is a miter box, table saw or chop saw, a power drill with screw bit adapter, screws and wood glue.:thumbs_up