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You have a tall ceiling!!!!

 

Double tall, mine only goes up one row more over the standard Billy...and way back then....they obviously didn't have the small glass doors.............and I'd known, in I worked there.

If that's a Lintorp is new to me, been retired from Ikea pushing 15 years.

 

The problem with glass doors is they had once cost me storage space, (a book or two for each hinge) but I'd crammed a double thick and books laid sideways on top of them.

 

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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Yeah, the hinges peeve me too. Okay, okay, there are only 28 of them all together here but each hinge means that I can't keep a bottle (or box) of ink right there (where the hinge is), nudging up against the inner side of each cabinet (behind each hinge) without having to move those (bottles or boxes) next to it (sideways or upwards) to get it out of the case. Sorta get the idea ???????

 

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6 hours ago, lapis said:

I opted for IKEA bookcases with glass doors

I have those bookcases too! But I use them for... books. I don't have the vast hordes of ink that you have. I'm envious!

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I have to admit, I gave up books for pewter topped beer mugs in my glass door bookcase.  Even had a pewter top made for a Budweiser Clydesdale mug.

 

Once my ink bottles were scattered by make on a number of shelves under the spreading canopy of pewter topped beer mugs.

Not neat, but I could find which ever ink I wanted, without hunting and searching and reading what is in what box shelf or box.

 

That has made me lazy, what is out gets used.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I have to admit, I gave up books for pewter topped beer mugs in my glass door bookcase.  Even had a pewter top made for a Budweiser Clydesdale mug.

 

Once my ink bottles were scattered by make on a number of shelves under the spreading canopy of pewter topped beer mugs.

Not neat, but I could find which ever ink I wanted, without hunting and searching and reading what is in what box shelf or box.

 

That has made me lazy, what is out gets used.

Bo Bo, you have posted here on FPN almost 24,000 times. Being lazy is not an issue for you!

at least not from from my POV. 🙂

P.S. Using what is out already is practical AND efficient...

“Don't put off till tomorrow what you can do today, because if you do it today and like it, you can do again tomorrow!”

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Been retired for 14 years, my fountain pen mania starting a year or so before that. It was easy to find time to post.

 

Much of it was ...hello, I live in Germany at the well for semi-flex....(soft ++) I had a/have a bad habit of answering the  posting to what ever poster had that question.....instead of 'linking'. It may have seemed like a broken record, but I broke that record ever time I posted new.

I crept into the internet late...using my smart typewriter....so thinking about making a file with links to my BS was strange to me.

 

Once back when people sold fountain pens here, this was a very lively place, with much to comment on, with much new every hour or two....or so it seems to me....not this staid slow place it is today, where you can look and see nothing has been posted for much of a day...............back in the day.....that might have been much of an hour.

 

 

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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I really need to go through and organize both the cameras and the ink bottles on these shelves, but here's where most of my ink collection is now. There are in the range of 250 bottles on these shelves, albeit some duplicates. I don't know how many cameras...

 

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I do have a small display of some of the interesting(to me) vintage bottles plus a few others I've used recently on the top shelf of my desk. I'm missing two from the Waterman line-up of bottles, one of which should be easy(Washable Blue) and other of which is likely going to be very difficult(Patrician Purple).

 

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On 7/20/2022 at 8:09 AM, lapis said:

To paraphrase same, my wife forced me to get something that prevented my necessity to wipe off dust every now and again, so I opted for IKEA bookcases with glass doors. The bookcases themselves are of course fine but I hate the doors because they are in the way, they have to be opened and closed, and are difficult for using the ladder. But I assume that they do at least reduce any accumulation of dust. I'm not good at photographing anything, so here's shots (with my iPhone 5S, har, har) where the doors are open and closed....

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My gosh that looks spectacular!

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That’s the reusing of the recycling threesome. Good for you with those brick molds.  I like how they look. 

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