agree, try shopping in unexpected places, like antique stores, art galleries, pawn shops many great ideas to be found by re-using a bookshelf, credenza, buffet or hand made eary american bakers rack, etc. Get useful ideas by looking through a interior designers catalog. HGTV even has a show where they re-purpose items in new and inventive ways by painting, papering, distressing etc. It is your space and you can take it into a new direction by thinking outside the box, keep your eyes open for new ways to use what you find around you. Good Luck.
Glass&Steel and just ugly audio furniture
Glass&Steel and just ugly audio furniture. I'm writing not only because I am a lover of great music and audio gear but as a consumer and an apt owner. I live in the NYC area presently in a studio and by the end of this month I should be moving to a larger one bedroom. I have for years been so very turned off with not so much the quality of audio furniture, but with the very unattractive look of what looks like{I made it in the garage look}.Though I am single without a mouth piece hovering over me. I still enjoy attractive looking furniture with the use of marble and hard woods and that old world charm.Steel&Glass and oak furniture that looks stacked doesn't appeal to my eyes so I have avoided this look and stuck with beautiful and heavy furniture to show off the gear. I know this goes against the grain but I can't get myself to buy a rack that's is built to withstand a seismic tremor of 10 on the rector scale and needs a tire pump to activate. I ask how many of you Goners have done the same with using of heavy furniture. Or is it just me and my turn of the century taste that keeps me from the standard glass&steel and ugly rack look.