Show me your furniture used for music gear!

thecolourbox

So I'm doing up my spare room where my music stuff is and trying to get a unit to use for setting up my music stuff so it's all plugged it and ready to, but can also have the door shut on it. My favourite one so far would be the Ikea Sundvik baby changing table which has an excellent extending shelf for fx and/or my keyboard:

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/products/sundvik-changing-table-chest-of-drawers-white__0249871_pe388186_s4.jpg

However I thought I'd ask here for photos and or details of what you guys have done to make your home set up more organised and less visually annoying to she-who-must-be-obeyed?

Are there any well thought out hacks of other furniture to use like this?

Thanks

Panama_Jack666

I have a Marshall 4 x 12 as a TV stand

Cabicular

Etsy shelves for pedals and made.com Brass Apothocory chest for cables psus strings etc

Cabicular

57Deluxe

thecolourbox

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/products/sundvik-changing-table-chest-of-drawers-white__0249871_pe388186_s4.jpg

Mozart would have loved this too...!

EricTheWeary

thecolourbox said:

So I'm doing up my spare room where my music stuff is and trying to get a unit to use for setting up my music stuff so it's all plugged it and ready to, but can also have the door shut on it. My favourite one so far would be the Ikea Sundvik baby changing table which has an excellent extending shelf for fx and/or my keyboard:

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/images/products/sundvik-changing-table-chest-of-drawers-white__0249871_pe388186_s4.jpg

However I thought I'd ask here for photos and or details of what you guys have done to make your home set up more organised and less visually annoying to she-who-must-be-obeyed?

Are there any well thought out hacks of other furniture to use like this?

Thanks

Is putting a baby changing table in the spare room not sending out a message? 

vairish

If you are setting up a recording setup in your spare room, I would highly recommend an IKEA Bekant desk:



It has a decent enough cable management system which keeps everything looking nice and clean.

Another thing I put together last week was this side table/bookshelf made out of old Champagne bottle crates:



My GF loves this and it has plenty of room to store effects pedals, cables etc.

Skipped

John Lewis Rubberwood Side Table is a perfect stand for a 1x12 Combo.
The pale wood looks great against the tweed.

Apologies for not posting a pic.

thecolourbox

Thanks fellas keep them coming, is very interesting to see what people are doing, seems a good way to get everything ready to plug and play so just want to make sure I come up with the best option.

The room I am doing is quite small, this is the other problem, hence the liking for the tall but compact unit above. The floor space available (i'm excluding an alcove that houses a wardrobe) is 206cm (W) x 280cm (L), but it also needs to house a cupboard Unit I already have, and an extra chest of drawers for clothing storage. Therefore I've essentially got two walls to put stuff against, as one 206cm wall is the wardrobe and one 280cm wall has a radiator on it.

The idea would be to have my keyboard and preamps on the top two shelves depending on what is more comfortable to play the keys, then fx pedals on the middle open shelf. Monitors are on the window ledge so all good there. Two drawers are bonus storage for whatever.

@vairish I did consider a desk but floor/wall length space is at a premium and i don't have 140cm of spare wall unfortunately. I did think of the cable thing though and the baby unit has openings on the top sections to pass cables through, would probably just need to drill a few holes in the middle open shelf. Everything would then just be a case of turning the power on and plugging the guitar in to play.

@Cabicular like it, one of my other thoughts was to put a bookshelf unit on top of a chest of drawers to hold the pedals and preamps, not wall mounted as the window would be there but I do like the look of yours. 

@erictheweary I've told the missus it's a sideboard for record players

Cabicular

I did think about one of these for convenience
http://www.made.com/esme-wall-desk-white?utm_content=shopping-prospecting&madelp=gshopping&gclid=CKKGsJT5xtICFYZAGwods4cF9Q&gclsrc=aw.ds

thecolourbox

Skipped said:

John Lewis Rubberwood Side Table is a perfect stand for a 1x12 Combo.
The pale wood looks great against the tweed.

Apologies for not posting a pic.

Cheers I might look in there if I can bear the smugness of the one in Brum, though I can't play through an amp at home so not after anything for that purpose specifically

vairish

I don't know if this will be any use to you. You could probably put a sliding shelf in it: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/04/expedit-turned-into-a-guitar-amp-enclosure.html

NorthernPaul

Good thread, I'm liking some of the ideas so far and will be stealing some ideas hopefully

Thats a really nice set up @vairish ;

Skipped

thecolourbox said:

Cheers I might look in there if I can bear the smugness of the one in Brum, though I can't play through an amp at home so not after anything for that purpose specifically

I can't find it on the website.
Damn. I should have bought 2.

Rubberwood was like.....everywhere.....3 or 4 years ago.

skullfunkerry

I had a similar idea a few years ago: cabs etc that converted into furniture. Firstly, ease of storage when you're not gigging, and secondly: think how cool your stage would look with a load of armchairs and tables as a backline

spark240

http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b525/spark240v/IMG_0417_zpshzki3nye.jpg


I made the shelves from Plywood with a bit of felt stuff on the top, I got an offcut worktop from local kitchen place, then made the rack unit from MDF for about £15. 

xscaramanga

Ah, my hilarious visual joke failed to post because the mobile version of this site is pish.

moogie72

I'd love to post a pic, of tables I make out of aluminium scaffold and solid wood. Done some very nice looking bespoke builds for music gear, friends studios and colleges 

although would be shameless adversities 

oh i still haven't worked out how to put a single pic in a post!

McSwaggerty

I made a desk and storage from old reclaimed wood and conduit piping........cost me nothing     apart from a few hours of my time.

I can't work out how to put photos into a post either !

DaevidJ

I am still pleased with my dyed wooden top that clips onto my keyboard stand.  Great to have that extra space that can be taken down if needed

Jack_

@vairish what computer monitor is that?

Lovely clean simple setup you have.