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These would be AWESOME in my living room.
Well, they would be awesome once we rip out the paneling and put drywall in, and after we take out that ex-window while we're at it. (There's a window that used to look out onto a patio. That patio is now a room. The window framing, trim included, is still there on the living room side.) When we moved in we were broke, so we covered up the ex-window with three seven-foot bookcases. If that wall were all nicely painted drywall these Tetris shelves would be STUNNING.
But they'd be way out of the budget. Way out.
I suspect it would be possible to make my own. I am the least skilled woodworker on the entire planet, even if you count newborn infants, so I would not be able to depend on kung fu joinery skills to make shelves that wouldn't collapse. I see a few options:
1) Don't ever put any stuff on the shelves. Then you don't have to have excellent joints. A simple miter would do.
2) Put a back on them. They'd look a lot less cool, but they'd be more likely to hold if you put weight on the shelf. (To mitigate the loss of cool, the back could be painted to match the wall.)
3) Hide angle brackets between two layers of wood, or hide flat corner brackets on the back surface.
I don't think you can get away without knowing how to do veneer. Either that or your finish work -- on a lovely wood -- has to be very good.
Well, they would be awesome once we rip out the paneling and put drywall in, and after we take out that ex-window while we're at it. (There's a window that used to look out onto a patio. That patio is now a room. The window framing, trim included, is still there on the living room side.) When we moved in we were broke, so we covered up the ex-window with three seven-foot bookcases. If that wall were all nicely painted drywall these Tetris shelves would be STUNNING.
But they'd be way out of the budget. Way out.
I suspect it would be possible to make my own. I am the least skilled woodworker on the entire planet, even if you count newborn infants, so I would not be able to depend on kung fu joinery skills to make shelves that wouldn't collapse. I see a few options:
1) Don't ever put any stuff on the shelves. Then you don't have to have excellent joints. A simple miter would do.
2) Put a back on them. They'd look a lot less cool, but they'd be more likely to hold if you put weight on the shelf. (To mitigate the loss of cool, the back could be painted to match the wall.)
3) Hide angle brackets between two layers of wood, or hide flat corner brackets on the back surface.
I don't think you can get away without knowing how to do veneer. Either that or your finish work -- on a lovely wood -- has to be very good.
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Making even one finished block would probably take multiple days, so the party would last, say, two weeks? Eeeexcellent. I'll bring the wine.
The party planner would have to divide up friends, mentally, into a few groups: 1) has actual skills, 2) can bring tools, 3) can provide materials for self and for others, 4) um, good conversationalist. A party with lots of 2 and 3 but no 1 would be creatively wackily ugly. A party with lots of 1 would probably just debate best methods all day and then go home. A party with nothing but 4 would have people wearing lampshades by midnight or so, with a small group off in the bedroom drawing Tetris figures on each other in chocolate. I think I'll sign up for group 4. :-)
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