Whitmor Supreme Baker's Rack

I wanted hanging storage for pots and skillets. I wound up with the Whitmor Supreme Baker's Rack because it was well reviewed and would not involve drilling holes into the apartment's ceiling or walls.

It works well enough for the desired task. We also bought Cuisinart Pot Rack Hooks for extra hooks.

Custom Island Cabinet

The new apartment came with a table / island that is excellent for additional counter space and kitchen prep work. It seems to be empty underneath to allow medium height bar stools to be used so that it can act as a table.

Since we already have a table and were a bit short on cabinet space we elected to build a custom fit cabinet to fit beneath the table.

Closet LED Strip Lighting

New apartment, new closet. This one is fairly decent in size.
It has two doors, but with the furniture arranged we really only have access to one.

But the new closet did not come with a light.

Ikea Hemnes Cabinet with Panel/Glass Doors

Moved again and have a new apartment that lacks a pantry.
As solutions we looked at some metal shelving cabinets, wooden bookshelves, and so on. Ultimately my wife and I decided on the HEMNES Cabinet with panel/glass door from Ikea.

What we particularly liked about it is that it has a decent price point. It is also made of pine as opposed to particle board or low grade plywood.

Ikea Brimnes 3 Door Wardrobe (Disposable Furniture) Update

This is a follow up, after moving, regarding the Ikea Brimnes 3 Door Wardrobe.

The bottom corner did not do well during the moving process. A rather large chunk is missing.

Desktop PC Power Supply Replacement and Dust Mitigation

My 10 year old PC Power & Cooling power supply unit died. So, I bought another one by the same company. Here is to another 10+ years!

In around fall 2006 having suffered a power supply failure I did a lot of research on desktop power supplies before purchasing a replacement. A company I came across was PC Power & Cooling. They had papers on their site discussing the importance of large capacitors, heat sinks, and a strong high amperage single 12V rail (at a time when power supply wattage was rapidly climbing but on dedicated rails). The said their power supplies were such high quality that they only needed a single 80mm fan to cool their power supply and were offering a 3 or 5 year warranty when 1 year was industry standard.

Ikea Brimnes 3 Door Wardrobe (and why it is "disposable furniture")

To start, the Ikea Brimnes Wardrobe functions well, and I have no particular quality issues so far. More so, for our purposes this gives my wife the full usage of the walk-in closet and works better for us. We bought the wardrobe as cheap, disposable furniture for our move to Florida knowing it may not last a move thereafter.

I am not going to give instruction on how to build this; the Ikea instructions are comprehensive. I would recommend using two people when placing this against a wall once assembled.

Ikea SKARSTA Sit/Stand Desk

This is what met desk, in slightly cleaner times, looks like right now.

First a review of the Ikea SKARSTA Sit/Stand Desk and then a detailed assembly.

As a desk it works great. Despite have two monitors and a lamp all weighted to one side of it there is little or no tilt even when lifting the desk to max height. The surface seems fine, if not particularly to my style. And, having bought the larger of the desk surfaces for this there is quite a lot of real estate. The metal frame is solid and works great.

My only complaint about the desk is that when cranking it up, it makes an awful racket. My wife’s is much quieter, but still noisy as you get toward the top of its extension.

Electronics Cleaning, Receiver

I have owned this Yamaha RX-777 stereo receiver since 2004 or 2005, bought at Abt, and it has come with me everywhere (except Israel) that I have lived since high school. It is a wonderful mid-grade stereo receiver. But, I have not ever cleaned it out. I decided to pull off the cover and give it an air can cleaning and vacuuming. It looks much better now.
As for the receiver itself, I may replace it at some point just to have one with digital input in the rear so that less processing is done on my desktop before it hits my receiver. But this is not a high priority and does not factor into my desire for an audiophile quality system at some point.

Dusty:

Self Storage Shelving, Part 2

In the original post on self storage shelving, I showed the shelves my wife and I assembled and used in our self storage unit. These are the images of the fully packed unit when we were done.

Not really much to discuss here, this is just the result. Primarily loads of vertical space to use.