Where Do You Place Your Vinyl Collections?

While the MP3 is a "good enough" quality for the average home-listener, who is listening on their average home speakers, there's still a large number of vinyl lovers out there who refuse to listen to anything else. Hence, finding space and a place for all of these records starts to become an issue, especially for smaller homes. Where do you place your vinyl collections?

I feel vinyl is probably the only exception when it comes to housing music in physical media form. It reminds me of books and how you can pick any one off the shelf and engage in it with someone else. Unlike a movie where it requires your attention towards the TV, audio can be listened to at a reasonable volume and experienced different than playing it off your iPod or iTunes.

Building your own console for your vinyl collections gives a sense of intimate ownership that MP3's often fail to achieve today. (Image: Build Your Own Media Console for Under $100)

Try storing it on a rotating bookshelf for maximum exposure/showcasing album art. (Image: Showcasing Media Collections as Office Decor)

More tips for storing vinyl:

Clean regularly (dust is evil for vinyl)
Digitally import the ones that are rare and fragile
Keep them away from sun/water/other natural elements

[Image: The Selby]

Comments (6)

I know its been said before but the Expedit bookcase from Ikea is probably the best and most cost efficient way to store vinyl. I go the extra step and put all of my records in mylar sleeves. It helps protect the covers and keeps the dust out.

Another fun thing you can do with the sleeves is peel the stickers that came on the packaging off and stick them on the sleeve. Then, every time you go to play your record it feels like the first time!

Milk crates, of course.

I have the tall "Avington Bookshelf" from Target. Not driving five hours just to go to Ikea. All four interior shelves can accommodate records if adjusted properly, and each shelf will hold roughly 100 LPs. There's a bit of "wasted space" on each side though since the records stick out slightly from the edge of the shelves; you might be able to utilize it if you have a bunch of 10" records or 45s.

expedit's all the way. I've got two full 5x5 and an old bookshelf along with some crates. Looking at getting at least another 1x5 expedit

I need to sell some records

Galvanized storage cubes w/ perforated doors from The Container Store. We have a 2x2 configuration right now, but it's easily expandable as we make more vinyl purchases in the future.

http://www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10001011&N=&Ntt=metal+box

I build myself one of these:
http://www.djfurniture.nl/pictures/2009/r800cd1.jpg

easy as pie to do it yourself.