If anyone recognizes what I am trying to describe and knows where I can find this - please advise...
I have no pics of what I once owned, so it goes like this: (need to use the way-back machine to the mid-late 70's when this was fairly common in stores like JCP, Dillards, Sears, Macy's, others)
Great for apartment dwellers in that you could mix/match shelves, posts, in order to create coffee tables, end tables, shelving units with zero tools needed - just screw posts together.
I bought the shelves, posts, feet, tops so I could assemble a sturdy, "walnut" shelf unit about 5' tall that was large enough and configurable enough to have a bottom shelf of about 4' x 18" to fill with albums, two upper shelves of about 4' x 12" for receivers, tape decks (this was the 70's...), reverb, and on the very top shelf - the turntable so you could fully open the dust cover.
If this rings a bell with anyone as to a modern equivalent - please advise. It's not something you would find in Ikea, and I am beginning to believe it would be easier to find Jimmy Hoffa than using Google to find something like this for sale these days.
Thanks all in advance!
I have no pics of what I once owned, so it goes like this: (need to use the way-back machine to the mid-late 70's when this was fairly common in stores like JCP, Dillards, Sears, Macy's, others)
Mix 'n match assemble it your way walnut-stained furniture-finished shelving "boards" of about 20" depth and available in about 4' rectangles and 24" squares.
You purchased matching lathe-turned posts of varying lengths with embedded male screw posts at one end (to pass thru the hole in the shelf boards) and a female end, along with "knob" ends that could serve as feet or decorative tops.
You built the bottom shelf first and just kept adding layers of shelves at whatever height posts you wanted to use to space-up the shelves.
You purchased matching lathe-turned posts of varying lengths with embedded male screw posts at one end (to pass thru the hole in the shelf boards) and a female end, along with "knob" ends that could serve as feet or decorative tops.
You built the bottom shelf first and just kept adding layers of shelves at whatever height posts you wanted to use to space-up the shelves.
Great for apartment dwellers in that you could mix/match shelves, posts, in order to create coffee tables, end tables, shelving units with zero tools needed - just screw posts together.
I bought the shelves, posts, feet, tops so I could assemble a sturdy, "walnut" shelf unit about 5' tall that was large enough and configurable enough to have a bottom shelf of about 4' x 18" to fill with albums, two upper shelves of about 4' x 12" for receivers, tape decks (this was the 70's...), reverb, and on the very top shelf - the turntable so you could fully open the dust cover.
If this rings a bell with anyone as to a modern equivalent - please advise. It's not something you would find in Ikea, and I am beginning to believe it would be easier to find Jimmy Hoffa than using Google to find something like this for sale these days.
Thanks all in advance!
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