Last night we watched American Idol – it was Broadway night and a few contestants did Phantom of the Opera songs (okay by a few, I mean two, and by two I mean the David’s a.k.a. basically our favorites and by favorites I mean last night we were biased by our love of Phantom…) We are also big fans of Carly and Sayesha (I’m probably spelling both names wrong, my apologies) but that has nothing to do with my post at all. The point is that after hearing the performances I really felt it was time to buy Phantom of the Opera once and for all – we’ve almost done it several times but refrained for monetary reasoning. But it’s time.
Now I’m looking at our once tiny DVD collection and seeing that we need a storage change. I don’t like those DVD / CD cases where you take all the DVDs out of their original storage – it’s a nice idea but then I can’t look and see them all at a glance and thus never watch them – so I want something that we’d put all the DVD cases in – preferably something visible but not reachable for MLM. Maybe something that hangs on the wall, like this… or maybe something we’d put on top of a shelf like this.
Right now we have everything precariously stacked on top of the TV and in the cabinet under the TV… and we’re running out of room. So we’ll definitely need to do something so we can get Phantom of the Opera… My husband would say we should get a MythTV and burn all of our movies onto the hard drive…
What do you use to store movies and music?
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2 responses to “Media Storage Solutions? Please?”
Yeah I love IKEA but we’re looking for something in the like $20-30 price range, I’m not sure what we’ll end up getting – Dan doesn’t want to hang it on the wall, I don’t want it stacked on the TV – we’ll figure something out. The important thing is that Michael can’t reach it, but I do want things semi visable (as opposed to one of those CD books).
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right now, we have these cheap black stackable shelves with no doors, about 18″ wide and 2ft tall (i think?). probably from target. we don’t have them stacked right now, just one on either side of the tv. they’re my bf’s and he has way more dvd’s than I do, so I let him manage the storage situation. they’re not very sturdy, so we’ll have to see how they fare once we bring two kitties home next month.
i like the idea of doors on a storage unit because you can hide the mess if there is one, but sometimes you want to display items on open shelves, too. at ikea they have a storage unit you can alter to have both open and shuttered compartments (you can either buy little doors or baskets). i like the random look of it.
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