Every saga has a beginning...

[Mini99]

And here's a few photos of how my office and the new upstairs bedroom look after the first year. Since the last photos I have put my loose collection on the wall, put up a couple of pictures, and played with the displays a bit. I still have some more ideas, but just haven't had the time or money to do them yet. But I have been using it almost daily to work in, which has been a real game changer from trying to work in the house with the kids running about!

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Looks great, sorry to hear about the damp issues you had, but thankfully looks fixed now.
I feel your frustration…but enjoy the space now.

 

[Michael Sith]

Looks super that Edd, needs some more SW though, looks too grown up ( ha ha sing your own song!)

 

[Cazza]

Looks great, Edd! Sorry to hear about the damp- what a PITA! Looks like they did a cracking job sorting it out, though.

 

[edd_jedi]

Needs some more SW though

Yes this is the dilemma I have, I would love more Star Wars on display but it takes up so much damn space! MOCs are bad, boxed vehicles are even worse. I will have to try and thin out the video games a bit some time.

 

[vader45]

What a transformation!!

 

[Capetown]

That Amiga 4000 (?) is just , Edd. Really the icing on an amazing cake.

 

[edd_jedi]

Another minor disaster last week, one of the glass shelves in my cabinets gave way and caused a domino effect on the ones below! Luckily as each shelf was only an inch or two from the next there doesn't seem to be any damage. I was in too much of a panic to take a "before" photo, but I've now replaced all of the glass shelves with the original wooden ones which are much more secure.

 

[Cazza]

Yikes! Glad it's all ok. Looking great

 

[vader45]

Another minor disaster last week, one of the glass shelves in my cabinets gave way and caused a domino effect on the ones below! Luckily as each shelf was only an inch or two from the next there doesn't seem to be any damage. I was in too much of a panic to take a "before" photo, but I've now replaced all of the glass shelves with the original wooden ones which are much more secure.

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Nice! A fellow physical media collector!

 

[edd_jedi]

Not 100% sure about this, see what you think. There's a lot of white in my office so I've been thinking about ways to get some more colour in here. I came up with making the background of my loose figure display cabinet the same yellow colour as the old cardbacks:



A very Blue Peter solution, a sheet of A1 card in "buttercup yellow" from a local art shop, cut it down to the right size, and attach it with some double sided sticky pads.



Here's the before and after. I like how there's no longer a crease down the middle, it's a shame the shelves aren't yellow too but that would have involved painting, maybe in the spring. I still need to look at lights too as it's a bit dark.

 

[Darth Bobby]

Looks very cool