LPs - display/storage etc ideas


Hi. i'm soooo tired of trying to find a good way to solve the age-old problem of record storage. anyone come up with some cool solutions? if you stack them you can't read the sides and it's annoying to flip through them. if you have them foward facing you can only have a few at a time and then they take up a whole wall. i'm thinking of building a while wall shelving unit for them but need some thoughts and 'watch outs.' i dont feel like spending 1500 on a billy bags metal rack that i can build for 50 bucks, either. thanks in advance.
kublakhan
Kublakhan: If you have a sizeable closet in or near the listening room, it can be made into a vinyl library with the addition of shelves and some decent lighting. I have done this in two apartments that I have lived in and just kept a small bin of records in the listening room which were to be either played or refiled. This gave the room a nice clean appearance. I like the look of lots of books in a room but the skinny spines on album covers never did it for me. I used stackable cubes from the Akron or some place like that in one setup and the cost was nil.
see dekay, NOW you're using your brains. i guess the next part of my evening is throwing out most of my clothes to make way for the lps.
good one
I say get one of the racks like the record stores used to have. The ones I'm talking about are tiered, and have like three different levels, maybe four feet tall. That way the records face you, and you can flip through them easily.

I don't have vinyl, so don't share this problem, but I was impressed some way when I saw one in a friends house. Your makin a statement with one of these, I think, that the records are more than just left overs from the 70's (my usual reaction). Lately I've noticed there is one (but never more than one) like I am talking about in every small antique shop, or small resale shop. Try one out, you'll see.
Kubla: The electronics in our living room system are displacing my clothes closet (in the hallway as my wife "owns" all of the other ones). I have not figured out what to do with my clothing yet, but it is not a priority. My leisure suits and polyester shirts are wrinkle free anyway (just need to keep the white belts and shoes away from dirt and grime).
You have the red sports coat and the white pants, Dave? I think that's called a "full Cleveland".