Let's See Your Collection! Any Size!

So I have the majority of my CD collection in binders. My wife wants me to get most of the remainder of the collection in binders and I’m cool with this from a space perspective.

I am thinking about keeping a few prized ones (that I don’t already have in binders for whatever reason) out and lining them on the top of the kallax, like this:

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What do you guys think? I do believe I am gonna take those book sets (Bela Fleck and Intrigue) and put them in a cube with long box sized books and the record sized boxes.
 
Lee Newman said:
So I have the majority of my CD collection in binders. My wife wants me to get most of the remainder of the collection in binders and I’m cool with this from a space perspective.

I am thinking about keeping a few prized ones (that I don’t already have in binders for whatever reason) out and lining them on the top of the kallax, like this:

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What do you guys think? I do believe I am gonna take those book sets (Bela Fleck and Intrigue) and put them in a cube with long box sized books and the record sized boxes.
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Just my opinion, so please disregard, but it looks messy/busy with the individual jewel cases. I think it would look better if you just kept the CD box sets there.
 
All righty… stuff is in place and record collection has some room to breath again.

Still need to hang pictures and stuff, but this is the general layout of the record room these days.

The main collection (rock, hip hop, country, etc). The doors on the unit on the right have the various artists and soundtracks, classical is down there too, about four cubes altogether. The Ube Cube and the records underneath the cd player are the ones going through their listens before being shelved. The system lives here too:
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The listening chair:
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The new Kallax, Jazz is the records that are on the top two shelves. Hoped to use the drawers for sleeves (it ain’t big enough for the 12 in sleeves, so the tens and sevens are in there). Music books and cd sets live here too. The crates are my tens and sevens. (I still need to build another 7 crate):IMG_6711.jpeg

Finally, the cleaning station and intake. Cube bins have my 12 inch sleeves in them. The bottom left cube is the kid’s collection. The rest on this shelf needs to be cleaned (😳). The ubes cubes at the end - the white is Christmas, the one on top, which is full, are cleaned and waiting to be played. I’ll be hanging the guitar here and the wife wants me to build some shelves to show off some records:
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All righty, got things in a good place for the time being. The view from the listening chair:
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The new Kallax. Bit of fun - that Kendra Morris cover doesn’t fit in any of the “album cover” frames I have. So looking into fixing that.
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The intake “kallax” and final home of the guitar. After I build the display racks, will move the Beatles over some.
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All my records are going to be sitting in the basement for a few months before I upgrade my shelving, paint walls, etc. We just moved last month and it’ll be a little while before I can get back into them.

I bought some humidity monitors because our house was feeling very dry initially but it’s cooler and a little more moist down here than upstairs. As you can see the monitor fluctuates but should stay consistent down here for them.

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wokeupnew said:
All my records are going to be sitting in the basement for a few months before I upgrade my shelving, paint walls, etc. We just moved last month and it’ll be a little while before I can get back into them.

I bought some humidity monitors because our house was feeling very dry initially but it’s cooler and a little more moist down here than upstairs. As you can see the monitor fluctuates but should stay consistent down here for them.

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My music room lives in the walkout basement and I have a battery backed up sump pump system in the floor. Still, I have everything up a bit off floor. So, I’d put some 2x4 or 6 spacers under the boxes (and eventually the shelving) just to be safe. Also, I have my shelves placed as far away from upstairs bathroom plumbing as possible. I even put a false vent in under the master bathroom shower so any leak will not spread out b4 raining from the ceiling. :-). You can’t be to careful and time flies. You may be boxed up awhile. Looks good otherwise.
 
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POGunter said:
My music room lives in the walkout basement and I have a battery backed up sump pump system in the floor. Still, I have everything up a bit off floor. So, I’d put some 2x4 or 6 spacers under the boxes (and eventually the shelving) just to be safe. Also, I have my shelves placed as far away from upstairs bathroom plumbing as possible. I even put a false vent in under the master bathroom shower so any leak will not spread out b4 raining from the ceiling. :). You can’t be to careful and time flies. You may be boxed up awhile. Looks good otherwise.
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We also have a sump pump that runs itself along with a gas generator that is going to get upgraded but it should be good for now. CT had some historical rain in March before we moved in and again in early April after we moved in. The sump pump was going off as much as once every half hour last month and it didn’t flood! 😱 So, should it look like it might, I can quickly move them upstairs. But I’ll definitely be checking the temp/moisture and just around the boxes to see if they are getting wet every few days
 
wokeupnew said:
We also have a sump pump that runs itself along with a gas generator that is going to get upgraded but it should be good for now. CT had some historical rain in March before we moved in and again in early April after we moved in. The sump pump was going off as much as once every half hour last month and it didn’t flood! 😱 So, should it look like it might, I can quickly move them upstairs. But I’ll definitely be checking the temp/moisture and just around the boxes to see if they are getting wet every few days
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Sounds like u r on top of it. I also leave a little extra space behind the shelves on the exterior walls for airflow. I know of two collections in town (and a couple internet horror stories) that were totally destroyed by basement water. Still if I move it all upstairs a tornado will just take the roof off. FWIW, I also had some large trees cut down to protect from above.
 
Finally got all my records unboxed in our new house! We had to paint this room first so it took a little time before I could bring them out of storage.

I want to get nicer shelves but those will cost $500+ each and that’s a later this year or next year expense with other, more important things taking precedence.

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I previously used one of the Kallaxes on its side to put my TT on but since those are standing up I will need to have my record player and speakers in this corner opposite the room.

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As you can see more IKEA furniture! This doesn’t work because the speakers wouldn’t fit on the table. I’m looking for something wider and hopefully more custom that can have the receiver under the TT because they were previously sitting on top of each other. This area is about 40”~ wide. But a 38” or more commonly 36” wide piece would fit here. Does anyone have something similar for their record player and speakers in a tight squeeze like this? I’m also open to upgrading/downsizing my speakers since black plain with a bunch of stickers on the sides is no longer my style.
 
wokeupnew said:
Finally got all my records unboxed in our new house! We had to paint this room first so it took a little time before I could bring them out of storage.

I want to get nicer shelves but those will cost $500+ each and that’s a later this year or next year expense with other, more important things taking precedence.

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I previously used one of the Kallaxes on its side to put my TT on but since those are standing up I will need to have my record player and speakers in this corner opposite the room.

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As you can see more IKEA furniture! This doesn’t work because the speakers wouldn’t fit on the table. I’m looking for something wider and hopefully more custom that can have the receiver under the TT because they were previously sitting on top of each other. This area is about 40”~ wide. But a 38” or more commonly 36” wide piece would fit here. Does anyone have something similar for their record player and speakers in a tight squeeze like this? I’m also open to upgrading/downsizing my speakers since black plain with a bunch of stickers on the sides is no longer my style.
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You could always wall mount the speakers like I did.
 
wokeupnew said:
Finally got all my records unboxed in our new house! We had to paint this room first so it took a little time before I could bring them out of storage.

I want to get nicer shelves but those will cost $500+ each and that’s a later this year or next year expense with other, more important things taking precedence.

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I previously used one of the Kallaxes on its side to put my TT on but since those are standing up I will need to have my record player and speakers in this corner opposite the room.

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As you can see more IKEA furniture! This doesn’t work because the speakers wouldn’t fit on the table. I’m looking for something wider and hopefully more custom that can have the receiver under the TT because they were previously sitting on top of each other. This area is about 40”~ wide. But a 38” or more commonly 36” wide piece would fit here. Does anyone have something similar for their record player and speakers in a tight squeeze like this? I’m also open to upgrading/downsizing my speakers since black plain with a bunch of stickers on the sides is no longer my style.
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You missed a spot in the corner.
 
Had a 5x5 delivered yesterday from Ikea to finally get some of my overflow that was taking over everything. I'd say it got about 65% of my overflow. But that's it for space for me, so I'm going to need to purge some if I plan to keep buying any. My purchases have slowed up a lot the last month, but I need to pump the brakes more and do a thorough examination of my stacks.

It took me five hours to move all the records out of the way, build this and move them all back. It is in no way organized and that's going to be a massive undertaking for the next couple months.
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I don’t know how some of y’all live like that. There are a total of three cubes of various states of incoming stuff that are not organized in some way. The actual stacks are completely organized. Hell y’all should have seen me the other day looking for a Dexys record and starting to panic a bit before I realized I had under R for Rowland.
 
Hemotep said:
Had a 5x5 delivered yesterday from Ikea to finally get some of my overflow that was taking over everything. I'd say it got about 65% of my overflow. But that's it for space for me, so I'm going to need to purge some if I plan to keep buying any. My purchases have slowed up a lot the last month, but I need to pump the brakes more and do a thorough examination of my stacks.

It took me five hours to move all the records out of the way, build this and move them all back. It is in no way organized and that's going to be a massive undertaking for the next couple months.
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That looks nice!

I am still sorting through my 400 I am looking to move. I am getting closer though it’s looking likely I am gonna have to make multiple trips to my local to transport them all.

It’s gonna be a thing.
 
MyWifeHatesTrain said:
I don’t know how some of y’all live like that. There are a total of three cubes of various states of incoming stuff that are not organized in some way. The actual stacks are completely organized. Hell y’all should have seen me the other day looking for a Dexys record and starting to panic a bit before I realized I had under R for Rowland.
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It was very organized until I got too busy over the last year and never had time to get another shelf. Things just spiraled from there. But it'll be all nice and organized soon. Just needing to balance it with work and other life things.
 
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