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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The Chest: Brilliant solution! On the other hand those things are a whole lot lighter if you take the drawers out.

Yes, and fortunately that's usually an option with the home assembly jobs, and is with this one.

But the chest and TV just look so sad and lonely over there by themselves, lol. They'll be much happier when I get something along the rest of that wall. After measuring, I think I'm going to put one 31" bookcase between it and the corner to the right, then move the chest and TV over to the right against that. Then I can put a couple of the tall shallow 7-8" DVD/CD cases to the left of it, between it and the door, for DVDs. Or I could put the matching 15" bookcase there, we'll see how it goes. But that will take care of that wall, anyway.

On the opposite wall - around the corner from the bookcases I've already got - I can put 3 of the 31" cases, with a 15" case in the corner at an angle to "connect" them with the existing ones. Talos bless Ikea and their corner solutions.

I still don't know where I'll store CDs, but I don't really need them in the office since everything I have on CD has been ripped to my computer and I just listen to stuff on the computer if I want music here. But if I turn the dining room into a music room they would probably end up in there, I've already got storage boxes for them anyway, I'd just need something to put those in... probably some kind of media stand since my stereo would most likely end up in there. That's where I had them in the apt, on the shelves under the stereo on the cobbled together thing I've been using as a stereo stand for several years.

I am SO looking forward to unpacking all my books and sorting them and putting them on new shelves. With two shelves up it's all I can do not to start on it now, even though I know most of them would end up staying in boxes. And I've got so much other stuff that NEEDS doing before I even get to that. But the call of my Inner Librarian is very, very loud.

The Food: Always easier to work when you're not weak from hunger. I've done the "forgot to eat" thing more than once. It's never as much fun as it sounds.

I'm terrible about it. At times like this I'm lucky if I can remember to stop for one decent sized meal a day. Time just gets away from me and I feel hungry but I keep putting it off until I get "one more thing" done but that thing always leads to ten others and before I know it I'm dropping into bed and suddenly realize that my tummy is all rumbly. Hey, at least if I have hot takeout food delivered, it forces me to stop what I'm doing and eat something.

The Books: It looks like you have an overhang that the shelves barely fit under. I'm not sure I could live without being able to use the top of the shelves for more books. At least it looks like you have room to lay some too-big-for-the-shelf superbooks up there.

There's no overhang on the other wall that will be all bookcases, though, and Ikea has "add on" units that match their cases that give you another 12" of of storage space if your ceilings are high enough. Mine are without the overhang so I'm toying with that option where possible. The only drawback is that I really, really want to put cabinet lighting on top of the cases that will be plugged into the hotswitched wall outlet, so they would all come on and illuminate the cases when you walk in the room and flip the switch. Most of the time that would be the primary lighting in here, other than whatever I end up with as a desk lamp. I might put a nice table lamp on the file cabinet, I've got a borrowed one from work on there now and I kind of like having one there altho of course I'd put a lampshade on mine.

Anyway I can put them on the cases I've got, even with the overhang, but on the other wall... I think if I do the add-on units above the basic cases, there won't be room above them for the lights so I may not get the add-on units. In fact now that I think about it, I will need somewhere to put all my big action figures, I can't just leave Thor and Iron Man and Buzz Lightyear in a Staples box forever and since this is Geek Central for the condo they belong in here anyway.

I used to have them way up on top of the hutch over my old desk but I don't think that will be an option with his one, they wouldn't all fit up there anyway. And of course every time I bumped the desk some of them would fall over and the bookcases are a lot sturdier and will probably be anchored to the wall once I know for sure they are where I want them.

The TVses: You have one for every major room in the house. You multitask much better than I do. One TV is all I need to watch stuff, and I can't have it as background. If I have something on it's so I can watch it. Of course I do all my watching on the monitor these days, so what do I know?

Oh, see, I use the TV for background noise and "company" a lot of the time. At the moment I'm using internet radio on the computer because it's all I've got access to - the stereo that I brought over the first weekend after I closed got unhooked and scooted out of the way when we moved in all the big stuff. Now if I'm on the computer playing a game or doing something where sound is an integral part of the experience, I don't have the TV on - and usually I'm using headphones for the computer audio. But for anything else, yeah I like the TV on in the background. But I'm a born multitasker, if I don't have at least three things going at once I feel like something's not right, lol.

Anyway, LOOKIN' GOOD!

Thanks! Just don't look at the man behind the curtain! Or the three hundred unpacked boxes scattered all over the rest of the condo!