Finally got around to reworking the built in display shelves in the living room. The before, a mix of framed photos, treasure boxes, and miscellaneous memorabilia:
The bigger issue has been dust and dirt. Pulling everything off the shelves told the story:
I wanted to add plexiglass doors to the bottom 4 shelves, add some addition interior shelving to better display more stuff, and also install some LED lighting to help illuminate all the treasures.
PART 1 -- LIGHTING
Bought a cheap LED light strip kit from Amazon:
Drilled some small holes to allow feeding of the wiring up through and around the shelves:
Cut down the lighting into strips and used some solderless connectors and RGBG wiring to connect the segments:
Lighting installed, but all the wiring still needed to be tacked down and painted to conceal it from view:
PART 2 -- PLEXI SHELVES AND DOORS
Installed the plexiglass shelving. Even at 1/4" thick, the 36" length of the shelves turned out to be a bit much. Had to cut some support pieces to keep the shelves from sagging. Worked well! (All plexi still covered in protective paper):
Installed the doors. Searched a long time to find the right hinges. Finally found these glass door hinges on Amazon:
The front shelf facings had to be notched for each hinge, 2 per door. Took a while to dial in the right depth:
All the doors hung, still with protective paper covering:
Had to cut down the door knob hardware, then drill the doors for install:
All the paper removed and testing out the colored lighting effects, Orange:
Purple:
All the artifacts restored and arranged!:
Still adding more treasures and moving things around but generally complete:
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