Have you tried Scan or Ikea? Granted, most of their furnitre is veneered, pressed particle board but both have a "higher" grade of furniture...if you want to pay the price. Good luck

Scan (short for Scandinavian) Home Furniture www.scanhome.com

This is beautiful, but what a bitch it must be to keep clean.

(Reminds me of the limerick --

There once was a fellow named Gene
Who invented a balling machine.
Both concave and convex,
It would do either sex,
But O what a bastard to clean.)

I hired a local carpenter to do built-in shelves around my walls. It ended up being cheaper than buying ready-made units, and I had my choice of hardwoods.

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... I hired a local carpenter to do built-in shelves around my walls. It ended up being cheaper than buying ready-made units, and I had my choice of hardwoods.

Nice. Post a photo?

For CD racks I concern myself mostly with just function and price. I have a wood CD rack, like one of those on AlexO's first link, which holds a 1000 cd's for $200. I like that price/performance ratio.

Ikea has some ready made record racks! Each hold about er, 1K records. About $200 each.

I'll go look them up.

Oh. you want the silver demons saved. From what? Put em' in the fire! Sorry, couldn't help myself.

I'll fetch the record rack Ikea link, as someone's going to ask anyway....

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60071358

This the bigger one. I have two of the 4x4 units, this one is 5x5 spaces. Each cavity holds about, er, 60-70 records. Approximately 1500 records, on this bigger rack. Yes, it is solid enough to do it, year in, year out.

When you want quantity record storage at low cost, with quality involved (the minimum allowable)..this IS IT, folks. Look no further.

When I saw them at the local Ikea..I started hyperventilating and like a happy puppy..I think I dribbled a little bit.

It's supposed to hold records, not your dick.

I think NYC has ruined your capacity to understand the innate eloquence of the world of 'utilitarian'.

Thats the one of the problems I have with big cities, it seems to entangle people in invisible (to city dwellers) mental knots made up of their genitals and egos. Realities get lost..they get turned into some kind of pseudo effete concoction of musing coming off the disconnect with the base realities that hold us all.

Like: Ever killed your own food before? It's a reality that sadly, most never face. When I eat a steak, I'm fully conscious of what it is exactly like to butcher a cow. A cow who's NAME I knew.

A bit of a rant, (and obviously presumptuous, forgive me!) I know..but ultimately this lack of connect in the cites.. it leads to things like furniture as art, ie an extension of the ego. A near total disconnect.

Don't get me wrong, I love cool furniture too. But..to me... it must posses an innate strength and usefulness that brings strength to it's idea as 'art'. Ie: function creates the beauty of 'art'.

So the rack is ugly. Sort of. But it holds a bad-ass amount of records. And that alone makes it incredibly cool.

Anyway, Alex, I'm not here to make poopies in your thread. Maybe I'll find something you like.

Edit: I think Ikea does indeed make a rack very much like the one in your picture.

extra edit: it's in the Ikea bathroom collection. You can choose you color..and buy glass shelves for it separately, and buy the glass door version..then stick it in the living room.

Have you ever watched a snail....crawl along the edge...of a straight razor?

That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving.

Then I cook him in butter and garlic.

Anyway, stone cold bargain on the CD rack!

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Have you ever watched a snail....crawl along the edge...of a straight razor?

That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving.

Then I cook him in butter and garlic.

Buddha. You're one of the rare people who can trip me out at 3 pm when I'm stone-cold sober.

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Just ordered a CD rack from Audio Advisor.

I received an email earlier from them today alerting me to the sale. As it does not have a glass front I discounted it.

I'm glad you also saw it and it meets your needs. It appears to be a nice unit.

As long as we are on the topic of storage for CD's...this does not fit the bill, but I thought I'd post in case anyone is interested.

Can Am Drawers

I like my discs out of sight and using up as little space as possible, so these fit the bill for those desires.

I don't have pics of mine, but the cool thing about these babies is that you can stack them, and if you put them side by side, they sell countertop tops that make them look like they are all one unit.

We use four of the three drawer, two high and side by side, and it looks like one relatively small drawer set up.

Can't recommend them highly enough!

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Too industrial looking for my tastes. Very practical though.

Yeah, kind of on the industrial side, but I have my own idiosyncratic distate for having to look at CD's all the time.

However, on the plus side for open displays, at Christmas time, it's great to run lights behind your CD's and see them go all Lite Brite!

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Have you ever watched a snail....crawl along the edge...of a straight razor?

That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight... razor... and surviving.

Then I cook him in butter and garlic.

Ah...Animal Lector