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Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« on: June 09, 2018, 06:47:19 PM »
I'm losing my built in shelves that I keep 80% of ALL of my collections on... so I'm looking for a new solution.

I know most people with collections do wall-to-wall shelves (like billy cabinets), or big cabinets...

but does anyone use floating shelves for their collections? If so, can you share pictures?  ^.^ And it's not limited to just ponies. Dolls, plants, books, etc...

I'm thinking about mix and matching my collections together.

AND -- are there any suggestions for where to get them? The first thing that comes to mind is Ikea lack... but I like the look of natural wood ones too.
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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2018, 07:49:06 PM »
Me! I've been rearranging things on my wall and I've been putting some hanging shelves from Lowe's up to give myself more space for my collections. Just using what I had before wasn't cutting it anymore.

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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2018, 08:19:01 PM »
I've got floating shelves for my plushies, but that's it.

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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2018, 08:44:50 PM »
I mostly collect books and they go on Wall shelves. I used to use floating ones for my model horse collection till we had an earth quake and they all came crashing down. I would just make sure whatever you pick to have really good support systems.
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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2018, 08:52:36 PM »
When I was in college, we had shelves similar to what stores use where there were 2 brackets screwed into the wall. we could put the shelves into whatever brackets we wanted. I have looked for them here but I have only ever seen them for sale in Alaska. I would love to get rid of the dark, fake wood bookshelves and replace it with these shelves but I can't find them.

Alaska gets earthquakes all the time and since they were bolted to the wall, the shelves didn't budge but my some of the stuff did fall down.
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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2018, 09:17:02 PM »
I don't have any up currently, but in my old office room I had floating wall shelves and loved them! They give a ton of space for collectibles without taking up the "floor space".

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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #6 on: June 15, 2018, 09:41:01 AM »
If you mean using shelving brackets rather than giant wooden cabinet things, yeah.... I guess I've done that...

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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #7 on: June 15, 2018, 01:53:45 PM »
:) Thanks for your thoughts everyone.

If you mean using shelving brackets rather than giant wooden cabinet things, yeah.... I guess I've done that...

Not quite.

Floating shelves don't have external brackets. o.o that's a LOT of ponies you have on there, lol.  ^.^

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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #8 on: June 15, 2018, 05:17:33 PM »
Yep. All my ponies but customs are on floating shelves.

...which I have no photos uploaded of atm  ^^;

Here's my Raincurl shelf though. I'll take a pic of the rest in a bit.

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As you can see, I had to add some stuff to fit everything. I got the wooden ones unfinished from Michaels forever ago. The little house shelves too (perfect for petites and blind bags!). The white ones I think I got at Target.
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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2018, 03:42:21 AM »
I have some of my favourite ponies on a floating shelf next to my bed. :D To be honest I'd like to have shelves everywhere in the house, because I have so many little collections and pretty things I'd like to be able to see all the time, but I can't because of the walls. :( We have very strange walls, some places are so hard that I can't even get the drill though, and other places just crumble. >_<

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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2018, 05:54:43 AM »
Thank you BlackCurtains and Broken Irishwoman ^_^

I think I like the idea of floating shelves since it can kind of highlights what's up there.

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Re: Any put their collections on floating shelves?
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2018, 08:17:37 AM »
Oh oh oh!  The square shelves!  I have some of those.  The only thing that's kept me from using them is that I have misplaced my power drill  LOL 
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