Comments on: don’t put my stuff upon no shelf

By: muriel

muriel — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:02:42 +0000

believe it or not, you have to think like a garbage man. see that apartment building way over there? check out the garbage area near the end of the months. people are always tossing out good furniture and parts. did you know you can convert a dresser into a bookcase. and because it’s lower, you can put two on top of each other and make a unique, cool designing, like a tv/gamers case. Neat, eh. Yes I am Canadian…hehehehe. Good Luck!

By: mjb

mjb — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:56:06 +0000

Sounds like the room can’t be fixed just by adding something. I’d say you have to clear it out completely and redo all the surfaces (usually this just means painting) to clean your mind of the stylistic fog that is preventing you from seeing the true path this room should take. After that, I’d say “don’t neglect lighting.” Even a beautiful room is going to look ugly if you’ve got it under that 1 omnidirectional 75-watt bulb in the ceiling. Or, if all that seems like too much work, here’s a really good book about decorating just by rearranging the stuff you already have: http://www.amazon.com/Decorating-Good-Step-Step-Rearranging/dp/0609803719 Good luck!

By: Emer

Emer — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:42:43 +0000

We’ve had good shelf-luck with the Home Depot (it takes all my willpower to not write “despot” — oops, done now) in the form of their cheapest just-pine shelfboards (though they do sell the laminated stuff for nearly-as-cheap, with a routered front edge, no less), and with Ikea if the budget’s slightly higher. It really depends on how much of a DIYer you are, and if you can stand to look at plain old pine or want something fancier.