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I'm trying to find the best shelves to show off my collection of games/dvds/blurays. Is it best to build my own? Is there a popular shelving unit that people buy?

I'm guessing it'll vary per the size of room etc, just trying to get some opinions.

Thanks!  :)

Welcome to Rfgeneration first off.  If your looking at shelving I would build my own.  L1 games on Youtube has his gameroom build up and he does an excellent job across mutiple videos showing you how to build nice shelves.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8sYC5bF8v4

Billy bookshelves from IKEA are a mainstay for collection shelving as well.

I agree, pretty good quality, and can fit a lot of stuff. Adjustable shelves make them ideal for different sized boxes.

Thanks for the input, those IKEA shelves look nice, I may pick one up to see how I like it...

I just bought cheap CD/DVD and book shelves. The sort that are dirt common and you can buy at Walmart or whatever. I then assembled them but putting the top of one unit on upside down. Dowel pins hold em together, so you can stack em. I made doors with plexiglass, adding small hinges to hold them on to the shelving units. Kept the dust off nicely and looks a bit cleaner overall.. Here are some photos so you can get the general idea...

All of these are TWO shelving units, stacked as I said:
[img width=576 height=432]http://www.rfgeneration.com/images/collections/Antimind/6-04-1.jpg[/img]

Same with the white bookshelves here, two units stacked. Cheaper to buy that way than one large one (read below):
[img width=287 height=448]http://www.rfgeneration.com/images/collections/Antimind/r2%2004-05-1.jpg[/img]

With the white ones, I learned my lesson a bit. If you assemble one shelving unit ENTIRELY upside down, you can stack em with dowels and it'll give you an extra shelf. These units come with a small "board" that fits across the bottom so there's no space at the bottom. I did not install that, hence the extra space once stacked. I learned that lesson after that photo was taken so you can't see what it looks like... It looks like one solid unit though, like it was meant to be that way.

Search edt1138s video on cheap effective book shelves  they do they job  cheap effective and u can paint them any color u want

Right now I have a "dirt common" Walmart bookshelf to hold most of my stuff (I like that phrasing, Antimind), though it can't hold everything, and I have loose Genesis carts, as well as PSP and PS3 games in boxes under my bed.  I'm planning on re-doing my media closet where I keep my CD collection, so that when it's all done, I can have 2 walls dedicated to my CD's, and one dedicated to just game storage.  I'm planning on using the wall-mount rails similar to this, but with wood shelves:

[img width=700 height=295]http://www.homedepot.com/hdus/en_US//DTCCOM/HomePage/How_To/Project_Guides/Storage_and_Organization/HT_PG_SO_Installing-an-Adjustable-Shelving-System/Body/Images/HT_PG_SO_IASS_Hero_Img-Adjust-ShelvingWSE.jpg[/img]

That way I can size every shelf height for the kind of box or cart I plan to locate on each one.

MetalFRO, you mean like this?

[img width=700 height=525]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-X06JPLq8uzI/UTN0S74TUAI/AAAAAAAAA4s/z0rNDkgz_5A/s912-Ic42/WP_000681.jpg[/img]

It's not bad, but it doesn't really scale well:
[img width=700 height=138]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qMfbuJQlLsc/VJJ1isTgD0I/AAAAAAAACdg/sKryjSfzqXo/s1440-Ic42/0b6e48a4-dc29-4b54-8ef8-b983902a8110.jpg[/img]

I built my own. There are pictures of them in my profile. Also the Bob series of shelves at Ikea I have heard are good.