Good Questions: Efficient, accessible CD Storage?

Hi,

I own about 800 CDs/DVDs and they have been in moving boxes and plastic containers for a long time. I don't like that I don't have good access to them.

I did a lot of research for media storage/furniture but cannot find anything efficient and handsome. I found Can-am storage which seems to be the most efficient storage so far. I don't want to expose my CDs/DVDs (I think they look too busy and get dusty), this product does the job. It is low and I can use it as a bench. BUT I am not sure if I really want this product. It's like office furniture.

There must be a lot of people who have many CDs/DVDs/Games and I would like to know how they store and organize them.

Thanks,
Sachi

(Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first.
Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to:
editor(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com)
Link To All Good Questions

Dear Sachi,

We can tell you what we did with ours collection recently: we digitized all our music and put the actual CDs in deep storage. We don't miss seeing the physical objects one bit.

If this isn't practical for you, we'd still suggest divorcing the music from the packaging: store the CDs and DVDs in space-efficient books, group them by genre, alphabet, or whatever scheme you like, and then keep them on a bookshelf. Then, when you're done, donate the jewel cases to Earthology Records, and they will clean and re-use them.

What do the rest of you do?

(pic from Radio Akropolis)

Comments (1)

A few months ago I purchased about 500 plastic gatefold cd sleeves to take care of my CD storage problem. I removed the art and discs from all of my "plane jane jewel case" packaged CDs and transfered them into the sleeves, then shelved them as usual. They are all mixed in with my digipacks and box sets and other CDs that for whatever reason I wanted to keep in their original packaging.

This works quite well for me. I can store almost 1000 CDs in the space it took for about 300, and I can still flip through their spines and handle them individually as before. They also open and kind of act like jewel cases. To see what I mean, watch the video near the bottom of this page: Jazz Loft CD Sleeves.

For me, this is far superior to a binder case type solution. I get to keep everything that came with the CD minus the actual jewelcase. I get to organize them however I want, right in with the specialty packaged CDs I didn't modify. It's great.

I did a similar thing with my DVDs and took a picture.