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refurbishing a bookcase
« on: February 16, 2017, 09:09:20 am »
I was thinking of refurbishing this bookcase http://www.biglots.com/product/bank-alder-3-shelf-bookcase/p810272519?pos=1:5&Ntt=bookshelf its roughly the size im wanting to have my controls at and ill turn it around so nobody will see it opened and ill add an on/off switch in the front.then i was gonna stick my computer in it and hang my monitor on the wall.What do you all think?

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Re: refurbishing a bookcase
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2017, 09:32:51 am »
It is going to be really ugly and not very sturdy. The back on those things is just glorified cardboard. If you face that outward is is going to look like  :censored:

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Re: refurbishing a bookcase
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2017, 01:14:52 pm »
It is going to be really ugly and not very sturdy. The back on those things is just glorified cardboard. If you face that outward is is going to look like  :censored:

well i was thinking of taking the cardboard off and replacing it with actual wood

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Re: refurbishing a bookcase
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2017, 01:26:45 pm »
Just build something from scratch then. There is not much to those things. That way you can build it how you like.

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Re: refurbishing a bookcase
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2017, 02:58:40 pm »
No offence, and please don't take this the wrong way (and before anyone flames me for "being mean to n00bs, wah!", let me preemptively say that I don't care), this has to be the stupidest idea I've ever heard.
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