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Nov. 14th, 2006 06:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI had a nice day at work today, relatively productive and stuff plus also I got two free not-acceptable bookshelves made out of mostly-real-wood (there are chip-board backs to them but I can remedy that in short order with my cat's paw. [It's a pry-thingie, not a part of an actual cat.]) that I am going to disassemble and remix into more acceptable shelving units for my CD collection, which got bigger today by three CDs of music they don't play on the radio here.
Because they are *wrong*. Allow me to illustrate.
This is a picture of the bookcase at the end of the hallway. (It's custom, solid maple, made of *nice* boards without knots in them. I had a woodworking guy come in and measure and then sketched him what I wanted it to look like. It is absolutely the right thing and I like it every time I see it. It was not, however, cheap.)
This is a picture of the shelving unit I built for my DVDs. It's narrow because it was designed to fit beween the end of the wall and the sideboard, backing up against the fridge to cover the naked part of the fridge-back (the kitchen isn't big enough for the entire fridge to be backed against a wall). It was inexpertly made of not-exactly-straight real wood boards and as a result, it is significantly cheaper (a hundred times) than the hallway bookcase. I painted it dark brown (matches the painted trim in the room where it lives) to cover up the fact that the boards (which were free) used to be a minty dentist-office green.
So. You have two examples of satisfactory shelving units.
This is one of the two (they match) free-but-unacceptable shelving units. Can anyone in the class explain what is wrong with the shelving units BESIDES the chipboard thing? Clearly, the chipboard must go, but there is another problem, here. What is that problem?
Because they are *wrong*. Allow me to illustrate.
This is a picture of the bookcase at the end of the hallway. (It's custom, solid maple, made of *nice* boards without knots in them. I had a woodworking guy come in and measure and then sketched him what I wanted it to look like. It is absolutely the right thing and I like it every time I see it. It was not, however, cheap.)
This is a picture of the shelving unit I built for my DVDs. It's narrow because it was designed to fit beween the end of the wall and the sideboard, backing up against the fridge to cover the naked part of the fridge-back (the kitchen isn't big enough for the entire fridge to be backed against a wall). It was inexpertly made of not-exactly-straight real wood boards and as a result, it is significantly cheaper (a hundred times) than the hallway bookcase. I painted it dark brown (matches the painted trim in the room where it lives) to cover up the fact that the boards (which were free) used to be a minty dentist-office green.
So. You have two examples of satisfactory shelving units.
This is one of the two (they match) free-but-unacceptable shelving units. Can anyone in the class explain what is wrong with the shelving units BESIDES the chipboard thing? Clearly, the chipboard must go, but there is another problem, here. What is that problem?
