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So I have been absent for a bit, my husband and I are searching for our first home and it has really taken up a lot of time. The house we are looking at currently is a cape cod and the ceilings in what would become my game room are slanted to where I would only have half a wall all the way around this huge space. Does any one have experience or a room similar to this? I have a lot of full size shelves but they would no longer work in that type of space and the walls are slanted so there is no way to put storage on the top part of the wall. What would be the best way to maximize this space? Any help or suggestions would be very appreciated. Thank you!

A slanted ceiling sounds like it would be awesome to hang posters on.

Depending on the size of the room, you could still hang custom shelving at an angle on the slants, you would lose a few inches of space behind the displayed games, but it would still work. Also, you could even put shelving up that is 90 degrees with the wall and have some type of thin metal retention bars or something that could prevent the games from falling. I personally think having a slanted shelving would be cool to try. You would just have to leave extra space above the games so you could still take them out.

My gameroom has slanted walls, but I believe my wall probably goes up higher before they slant (for reference: http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/necrom99/UnoNanerCade-Update-4-2238.php), since I am able to get full-size book cases against the walls. Angled shelving is going to be an issue, so my advice would be to get book cases and just them toward the slant as far as they will go. You will lose some room in the process (some space behind the shelves), but sacrificing this space will help you gain more room for games/consoles. You could always use the space behind the bookcases for storage and buy some bins to store controllers, cords, and other more unsightly objects you may not want people to see when they walk in the room. Another thought is to put bookcases back to back in the center of the room and use the slanted sides as a sort of gaming space (if a table, TV, will fit).

How high does your wall go up before slanting? Is your opposite wall flat or slanted too?  Might be good to post a pic of your space to help us determine your best solution. Hope this helps a little at least.

First world problems. Waiting for my parents to finish some shelves that I commissioned them to build for me, so I can reclaim my dresser for clothes instead of games, and not have all my clothes piled on a bed in my spare bedroom. lol. No slanted walls, just lack of adequate shelving for how I envision the room. Same problem Crabby has right now.

Lack of adequate shelving, you say? I think I'm familiar with that one:

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I'd like to have your problem  ;D

My collection is nowhere near that large, but since I've been collecting for 20+ years, and have most major consoles from the NES to last gen, I've compiled quite a library.  My games are scattered throughout the house in plastic tubs.  Some are under my bed, some are under the spare bed in the next room, my NES carts are in long tubs in a stack in that room, and some of my other games are in tubs stacked up next to my computer desk in the dining room.  My wife has begrudgingly agreed to let me pursue a nice bookshelf that I can set up in the dining room to hopefully consolidate all my games (or the vast majority) in that location, so I'm looking for something high quality that I can use.

Thanks for all the responses. I don't have a picture because we are still looking. However all the houses we are looking at tend to share this common feature. I would say most of the flat section is about 5' before it starts to slant upwards. I don't want to turn down a potential nice house due to the game room issue, however I am really looking forward to getting my collection out of the small bedroom it is in 8X10 and into a larger area to actually enjoy what I have. Currently I am wading through piles of stuff and have only room to shelve the most important things. 

Better to find a place that meets your needs now before you buy, instead of regretting it later. I really wanted a basement with our home purchase a few years ago, but my wife just wasn't into having one. Little did I know that months after buying the house, I would really get into pinball. Suffice it to say, we have a very entertaining house that friends love to visit, but now my wife doesn't have a garage to park her car. :D

IKEA does slanted wall shelving, and has brackets that rest against the slanted wall. Seems like a perfect solution for the problem at hand.

http://satoridesignforliving.com/2011/10/fab-find-angled-wall-shelving/
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These are cool, but there still may be a problem with clearance and how far you can push games back on each shelf. Might want to try one set out before you buy a bunch of them.

Lol..Singlebanana! Yeah my husband really wants a garage so I don't think that would fly.


I like those shelves, they seem like they would be good for figures and larger items. There is no side to them so it may be difficult to put games on them.

The point of them was more for curio shelves than games, to be honest. As for sides... the shelves at my house don't have any sides, and I've had no problems. If anything, find a bookend to put on the side.

bookends are great even if your shelves do have sides, it works well if you have small collections or any gaps at the end of a shelf.

That is a great idea Shadow. Thanks!

My solution was comendere a 2nd room ( my bed room for the library of games carts CDs and other assorted good and gamey ) while my primary room is a console room

So we found the near perfect house recently and bought it due to price and a good school district. Only problem I'm back in a small game room again. The third bedroom in every house was super small but I am not so addicted to my collection that I would take my daughters bigger room. Any how it is back to the drawing board to maximize storage and get all my games on the shelves. I may be weeding out some of my collection at this point. It's going to hurt, I won't lie.

Vertical storage is your friend!

If you are REALLY crafty you can have shelving stacked 2 deep and have the row in front on a track and slide to access the ones behind it

_______________ <shelf one
____          ____ <shelf two on track. Missing 1/3 so you can slide left or right to access rows behind.

That scenario works best if you have a large number of uniform sized/shaped items obviously. And it would likely take up the same footprint as a "standard" bookshelf but if it was purpose made would likely offer more than 66% additional storage ;)

I should actually see about getting something made like that for myself.....

I finally got my shelves, which only temporarily bought me space. All of my Sega stuff is on an Ikea bookshelf, for the moment:

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And I got my dresser back for clothes (It was previously used for all of my NES/SNES games. My new Nintendo shelves:

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I had my dad build them at a certain height, so they are just under the ledge, on the wall. I like using that ledge for games as well. My next plan, is to install shelf brackets above that ledge, to utilize the whole wall for game storage. The only problem, is I want to reno that room at some point in the near future, so I basically have to poop or get off the pot.

Also, notice my Oak Bo staff in the top pic, for on those days that I feel like Donatello.

Nice to see someone's using that suggestion, or at least suggesting it besides myself.

If i could have put shelving over every wall in my room when i was younger i would have.
I actually wanted to get rid of my bed and dresser so i could fit more storage.

Ahhh the good ole days.

rearranging my game room after quite a long time of it looking the same. compressing the entertainment stuff into one half of the room, and turning the other half into more of a general living room.

edit: this is a much bigger job than expected but so far i'm happy with how it's turning out. i'll make an updated room tour when it's all finished, but it could take a couple weeks...i need more furniture with this new layout.

If you needed to say narrow down your collection, what items could you rid yourself of to make room yet not completely destroy the value? Example: figures, should you keep everything boxed or systems, only keep the boxes for the rare stuff or everything. I am really fighting to make room and still display a few items.

Take the cardboard boxes, break them down (properly, not ripping them apart) and store them flat. Store the manuals and inserts in a binder or small storage tote, and optical media in a binder. The cases take all the room for optical, but most can be easily replaced (generic system cases). Some, like Saturn, may have difficulty. You can still display the binder and showcase the others. For cartridge...harder to make room. :/

Thanks Shadow.:) I am not one to not display games as much as I have system boxes for a lot of my systems, boxes of boxed figures, tons of posters and lots and lots of promo items from my years of retail work. I'll be honest I'm a bit of a horder but am unsure how to approach getting rid of stuff that adds nothing to my collection. No matter how big my room was I would find a way to fill it with every piece of game related paper I could find. I always have this nagging feeling if I throw something a way I may regret it later. I urgently need to find a way of breaking this habit.