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[which_chick]

Why is my cat more afraid of the vacuum cleaner than she is of the circular saw?



Seriously. I turn on Vacula, the cat scurries for cover instantly. I turn on Frankenphlange and she looks on, the feline embodiment of serene, bored, and aloof oversight. It doesn't matter if I'm vacuuming away from her or if sawdust from the saw lands on her fucking fur. It's not a matter of being more used to one than the other, either. My living room experiences circular sawing and vacuuming in roughly equivalent amounts -- neither is horribly frequent. (That's probably more than you really needed to know. Yes, I circular saw in my living room. Wanna make something of it?)

On the plus side, I have mostly finished the revamping of one of the two unacceptable bookcases from some months ago. I could probably stand to prime/paint the bookcase which is now a lot shorter and denser and ready to hold CDs so that my cat (yes, the same cat) won't knock my stacks of CDs over all the time, but I'm not terribly worried about painting or finishing. It looks sturdy and functional, which is really all I want.

Plea for suggestions! How can I hang this bookcase on the wall? (Studs? Mounting brackets? Nailing? A couple of good screws?)

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[brni.livejournal.com]

at least it's safer behavior than what my dog exhibits (trying to eat the sawdust before it hits the ground, lunging at the lawn-mower).

re: hanging the bookcase... duct tape?

would need to see pictures of the thing to make a better suggestion

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I hung it using L-shaped brackets and drywall screws. It's removeable from the wall if I want. Me so smart. And I shelved my CDs, rather a lot of which are, er, home-made. I overplanned for how much space I'd need, but that allows for growth.

See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/64021525@N00/371131499/

It's hung on the wall sort of above where the cat food bowl is -- there's no foot traffic there so it won't get banged or anything. Also, discovered while hanging: Wall is seriously out of level. I can either have shelving mesh with wall or I can have level shelving. (I went with the wall.)

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

Circular saws are stationary, right? Maybe that's the issue. (I know how to use all sorts of big tools, but I never do and don't remember which is which.)

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

Mine's handheld but I generally put the thing-to-be-cut on a stable surface and cut in one place. It might be that it doesn't appear to chase her around the floor like the vacuum does... but it's louder and spews sawdust.

(I really need a house elf.)

[cousin-sue.livejournal.com]

I am supposed to select some new bookshelves for our living room. Any suggestions?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

You might try talking to NYR -- I believe the ones she has in the living room of their house (the pretty blond shelves, I mean, facing the couch) are from Ikea but I could be wrong.

I don't buy bookcases because I do not like the commercially-available products within my price range. I don't like the idea of shelves-on-pegs. They do not GIVE you enough shelves to put the shelves close enough together to make me happy. (I don't like a lot of air between my shelves and everything I shelve is the same height on a given shelf because, d'oh, I have issues.) I don't know if it is possible to buy extra shelves-n-pegs to remedy the shelf-shortage because I am, honestly, too pissed off by the concept of shelves-on-pegs to investigate matters further. I also have strong objections to any sort of particleboard. Shelves should NEVER have to be taken out and flipped upside down. If the shelves will require that, they are clearly insufficient to the task and the damn thing should have been made with better wood in the first place.

The shelving at my house does not offend me because all of it has been custom-made. Since custom shelving (commissioned of people who can actually saw in straight lines and measure and so forth) is expensive, most of my shelving has been made by me. It shows.

My shelving is made of real wood. The shelves in my shelving are at the right spacing for what is on them. The boards are sufficient for holding what they hold over the spans that they are asked to hold it. These things are more important to me than having square, attractive shelving with a pretty finish that, y'know, sits the shelves on pegs (which means that the insides of the "walls" have all those extraneous holes in them, the ones not being used by the pegs, man that pisses me off) and uses particleboard shelves that have to be flipped every couple of years to keep them from bowing because the spans are too great for the weight of the crap stacked on the shelves.

Normal people probably do not have this much difficulty with shelving units. To be honest, normal people probably aren't able to pony up a quick three hundred words on their feelings about shelving units. *sigh* Really, I'm not insane. I just have *views* on shelving.

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

My pretty and functional shelving is Skandia, from The Container Store, and wildly overpriced, methinks, for what Sue is looking for. (As in, I wouldn't be buying it these days.)

[electroweak.livejournal.com]

! How can I hang this bookcase on the wall? (Studs? Mounting brackets? Nailing? A couple of good screws?)

I see you already hung it, and from the spacing between the L-brackets, it looks like you screwed them into studs. As long as there are also L-brackets at the top, that should hold it. I would put a couple more L-brackets in the middle shelf as well, but I'm notoriously careful about things falling off the wall. I'm certain Ivy has told you about how I installed shelving at her old apartment.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I see you already hung it, and from the spacing between the L-brackets, it looks like you screwed them into studs.

Of course I did. If I were just putting the brackets in to look pretty, I'd have put them equidistant from the edges instead of off-center like that.

As long as there are also L-brackets at the top, that should hold it.

There are L-brackets at the top that are currently occluded by the CD cases. They are also attached to studs instead of being placed at aesthetic and symmetrical distances from the ends of the bookcase.