Bonus Room Shelf Layout

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I like it. It is fairly simple and straightforward, with some operating interest. I'm looking forward to photos of your shelf bracket installation and benchwork.

Thanks, Gary. However, I'm rethinking the whole storebought shelf bracket approach for cost reasons. A friend of mine used to say 'lumber is cheap...compared to brass' (meaning engines). He's right, and I'd add, lumber is cheap...compared to rubbermaid or closetmaid shelving systems. After pricing them today at my local home Despot, I'd blow my modeling budget for a long time just on the uprights let alone the brackets themselves, and then I'd have to build the actual layout framing and fascia, etc.

I'll be doing some serious web & magazine searching over the next few days to look at lightweight framing (a la Iain Rice...although he rests his framing on shelf brackets or bookshelves). I figure if kitchen cabinets, that hold our dishes, are simply screwed to the wall, then if I build a rigid structure like a shadowbox scene, I could screw it to the studs and be fine.

But this approach calls for some serious 'measure ten cut one' thinking. :ugeek:

I do love the plan the more I look at it, even so. Drives me to make the benchwork work.

Galen