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Oh I'm glad you posted this. I recently got my collection out of storage and I've been trying to display as much as can in such a small space. It'll be interesting to see what others come up with. Right now, I've got one small set of shelves dedicated to my girls, and a lot of the baby ponies are small enough to kinda sit in random empty spots on other bookshelves. The only kinda maybe clever thing I did was place a sheet of foamboard on top of my rabbits cage. Turned it into another small shelf where I'm able to display a couple of the lunch boxes I have and my show stable. I've thought about suspending my windy wings from the ceiling to save shelf space, but I don't really have a lot of those to begin with, so I'm not sure if it would make much of a difference.
Hmm... My pony collection is limited to my bedroom as I live with my parents still. It's a decently sized room but not super huge. I have images of my collection setup (ever so slightly outdated as I'm constantly switching things up recently) here in this Imgur album. As you can see quite a lot of ponies fit on each level of the white shelf due to its size, although this does lead to the ponies in the far back (especially on the very bottom level I hide my G3s that aren't in as good of conditions down behind there) not being as visible as the ones in the front.So I've got two main shelves (the white and pink ones) in addition to a small hanging shelf for my McDonald's ponies, a table for my Ponyville playsets and smaller G3s, and just as of today I got myself another small hanging shelf that I've moved my 4.5s onto.So a combination of a large shelf (or two) that can fit a lot of ponies per level on, and then a couple smaller hanging shelves should be a decent way to fit in a lot of ponies, if you're willing to risk the large shelves leading to the ponies inn the back not being as visible (perhaps you can use things for the ones in the back to stand on?).In terms of normal ponies I have 70 G1s, 9 G2s, 86 G3s, 17 G3.5s (incl. Newborn Cuties), 56 G4s, and 3 G4.5s, for a total of 241 normal ponies in my herd. Then more space taken up by plushes, some fashion sized ponies, Ponyville & Blindbag size ponies, plushes, etc. For an idea of how many ponies I have fit in my room.
I've fit as much as I can in my room, which is thankfully spacey enough to have ~100-150 ponies in it. The rest are in plastic totes.Can't wait to get them out. ;u;
I'll be following this topic! I'm also moving to a slightly smaller space in about a month and I've been wondering the same thing.
Gosh, that's just beautiful! You've managed really well to display so many. Is that all your collection or do you have more stored away?
Small spaces are tough. My old collection/spare room got turned into a nursery, and while I have the space back now, I can't bear to use it again just yet, so my collection is still packed away for the most part. I have some merch out (books, DVDs, one-off pieces) because it's low maintenance, and all of that stuff lives on two small, but deep shelves in the wardrobe next to my desk. I have found in the past that using merch such as books and DVDs, old VHS etc as risers for various things is really useful, as firstly it's a matching colour scheme, VHS/DVD's have clear plastic covers so no paint/ink transfer onto hooves or ponies that fall over, it works as adjustable height risers, and provides more storage. You don't always have room for another tote just for books and DVDs when you occupy a small space. (at least I don't - I have 2 huge totes just devoted to merch already, several for ponies, and now I need space for more totes of baby things until we find our rainbow) I also use decorative boxes for accessories of various gens, so I use those as risers too. It does make it a bit tough to access things when you want to get at a particular book or accessory or whatever, but so is a tote, so it doesn't bother me any more than having it in storage. I've also seen those acrylic squares put to good use too, having ponies both inside and on top, adding to the available space if you're going for a more minimalist, yet still very well-stocked display look. Definitely stand your ground with displaying some of your collection though. Of course there will be compromise, but you need space for elements of you. Self-expression is very important for people to be happy!
I have a decent amount of space, but its still small for my collection. One thing I did recently for my G4 ponies was order a nail polish wall rack from ebay. It was around $20, and was able to fit my entire collection! It freed up 2 cube shelves in my shelf, and it is very thin against the wall https://www.instagram.com/p/BVcfAepDSBi/?taken-by=shelvesofwhimsyI would also recommend those thin picture from shelves from ikea. You could have a number of them around higher in a room and have your ponies stand there I second what others have said about using whatever is laying around as risers I've used post office boxes, checks, rement boxes, mac n cheese boxes and some shoe boxes If the pattern is very obvious I just wrap them in computer paper.I also saw recently that someone I follow bought one of those larger cube shelves from Ikea, and then used it as a room divider! It was cool because the back was full of toy "butts" but it still let some light into the room
I've got very limited space too.There's a fitted cupboard in my room and I started out with a shelf unit in there but it wasn't using the space well enough - so I got my Dad to put in custom shelves that fit the playsets. Show Stables on the floor x3 with a bunch of carry cases on top (which I love! and have over 20 of.) Perm Shoppe next up with a layer of ponies on top. The Baby layer has the Lavender Dream Castle - side note, if you disassemble the castle, have the drawbridge part against the back then the right side over on the left in a corner (with a little padding under the non-turret end) with the turrets together and the flat wall behind one of them, then you create a space saving way to display it. Also baby ponies fit the balconies perfectly! My Lullabye Nursery is there too with all the twins in the satin slipper sweet shoppe. The babies are on display mostly.Next level is the pink dream castle with sub shelves. Top bit that isn't easy to get to is where I keep all the small playsets and accessories along with most of the paradise estate (12-14 ponies to a room.) It's a tight squeeze and I'm struggling to find room for about 10 variants I recently got over the last couple of years. I still have space above the paradise estate rooms on the top shelf! But that's about it!If you have the skills to custom build a shelving unit to fit what you need and the space available I find that's the best way. I've been able to attach my shelves to the wall but it's possible to make a free standing unit