Local running shoe store Run Tex opened a new location in the Triangle recently, and features an interesting shoe display wall. Designed by local architect Jamie Chioco and with help from fellow architect Robert Smith, this simple but gorgeous display wall could provide you with inspiration for your own home! More information on how they did it after the jump!
Inspiration: Run Tex's Display Wall
Austin
Using a CNC router to cut individual shelves out of a sheet of plywood, the result left a modern and awesome negative decorative pattern in the plywood sheet. They then cut precise "grooves" into the plywood to be able to insert the shoe display shelves. Partnered with that gorgeous and bright paint color, the cut plywall creates an irresistible and modern look!
We've seen awesome furniture created by using the CNC router tool, like this instructables table. We've even posted about whole structures created with CNC routers! We want to know if you've ever used a CNC router to create a DIY home project. Share your ideas with us!
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Nice wall!
But could you please stop using so many exclamation marks!
They work best when used sparingly!
Otherwise your copy reads like it was written by a highschool cheerleader!
Once again, nice wall!
!!!
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How many people have a CNC router?
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Here's the deal: I don't want to live in a retail space. I don't display my shoes, I don't let people try them on, and my bedroom closet isn't a changing room.
Commercial design is fine, but not in my house. And ditto about the router.
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Here is a price list for the ShopBot. I would not suggest nobody has room for this in their home or business, there are some professionals here with the means or possibly already have one:
http://www.shopbottools.com/files/PriceList.pdf
However, this is called Apartment Therapy - I think most of us are just trying to fix our apartments. I thought that, maybe that's just not the target audience anymore.
Aside from the impracticality of completing this project mostly, I'd say it's a good enough inspiration for maybe a child's room or an accent type wall in a recreation room. Even the shelving doesn't have to be used to show off your sneakers you know! Things don't have to be immediately appealing to get the wheels turning, and a lot of people are handy enough to approximate their vision with small tools or borrowing a neighbor's or community workshop.
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