Pipe Shelves - Introduction
January 13, 2016
The Problem
I have been running out of space to display my collection of stuff for a while now. Mostly, I blame the lego collector's edition Star Wars kits. I didn't really start collecting them until recently and was forced to pay a hefty premium for the Lambda Shuttle (my favorite ship). Ever since, I've started collecting all of them that interest me (sorry sandcrawler, but you're not that interesting).

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The Solution
What I think I'm going to do is to reclaim an entire wall in my office. Right now there is just a big map on it.... so mostly un-utilized space. Of course I could have bought some shelves, but where's the fun in that? I settled on the 'iron pipe' style of shelving because I like the way it looks and it is relatively cheap. Doing so let me customize the shelf heights and what not.Â
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The scope of the project has been slowly spiraling out of control and is taking far longer than expected..... mainly because I have been using it to work out all the details for this website. Pipe shelves led me to integrated lighting. Integrated lighting lead me to a pipe lamp. The pipe lamp lead me to the faucet dimmer. From there, I still want to integrate a desk into the design of the shelving unit to give me more workspace. Since I'm making the shelves too, I figured "why not make built in shelf lights too?". As of this writing, here is what my plan looks like:

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The good news is that I think I have it the way I want it. All the pipes have been ordered and have been sitting in the corner for a while now.
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So here are my planned features:
built in desk with drawers
dimmable accent lighting
in shelf lighting (rgb led strips)
worn look wood shelves
It has been a little slow going;Â mostly I've been having issues trying to get the film production down. I can sometimes be a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to these things.... some of these things at least.
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Now even more good news, I have part 1 complete, which covers the design process to making the dimmer work.Â
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