http://www.rubinary.com Our small place in the virtual universe. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:56:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.rubinary.com/2009/10/21/besta-wall-unit-construction/ http://www.rubinary.com/2009/10/21/besta-wall-unit-construction/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:15:44 +0000 Daniel http://www.rubinary.com/?p=1722 A bit more about the construction of our unit, in help to those who might want to recreate the same thing. There are multiple ways you can build this unit. The most obvious one is on the image above. It’s also is the cheapest¹ way to go, as you need the fewer components then what we did.

One of our objectives, however, was to make as few holes as possible on our wall, to mount it, or none² at all, which we did. Thus by spending a bit more money, we built it so the middle shelf is not handing in the air, but is actually supported by the side cabinets. I also did add several additional screws in between the top cabinets, but the weight that they have to support is much less then that a full shelf with stuff inside.

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1. $510 vs $620 for the frame.
2. This clearly goes against IKEA’s recommendation.

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The whole movement has started because of that BD movie and the player. The TV could use a refresh, and along with it could the arrangement and the layout of the room. Also I decide that it’s time I finally got my surround system back in place, as we have never connected the rear speakers after the move.

We visited a lot of furniture stores and came to the consensus — they either have something small, ugly or just plain wrong for our room, or they have something that costs WAY too much money. 5 grand for a freaking collection of shelves and doors?

Naturally IKEA came to mind and we came up with what we think should serve our needs for a very good price. IKEA though has no planning tools, but that’s when my old friend Sketch-Up helped me out.

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