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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Storing a massive music collection |
| Date | Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:03:32 -0400 |
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At 09:10 AM 7/13/2004 EDT, DanAbnrml9@aol.com wrote:
>So my
>question.... since so many of us here have very large CD/LP collections,
what have
>most of you done to store them in such a way that's accessible and
aesthetically
>pleasing? I think I currently have somewhere around 1600 CDs and would like
>my capacity to be around 2000. My record store job means I take home an
awful
>lot of music (though I'm quick to eliminate things that I know I'll never
>listen to again). But currently they're something of a mess, despite being
>perfectly alphabetized. They're scattered across four different storage
units
>around the edges of my guest bedroom--the only room that I'll put them in
>because they look so bad. But I want my CD collection front-and-center,
and I want
>to find a good way to do it. Any suggestions?
Aesthetics have not factored into my own storage, since the CDs are here in
the office where I have easy access to them for work, so they're not in a
place that most houseguests see. So I've simply gotten a bunch of
off-the-rack CD units from Maverick Furniture (www.bostonwood.com), a shop
just up the street at Packard's Corner. They also do custom units: in
fact, one wall of our living room is floor-to-ceiling bookcases that were
custom-made by Maverick several years ago.
Thing is, no matter what, if you have a massive collection, one or more
rooms of your house will look like a used record store exploded.
S
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