Ever displayed your vinyl like this?

I would find a way to display my records...if I had a turn table. For now they stay nice and straight sitting under my old laptop on my desk 14.1" screen, almost the size of a record).

My tapes are displayed that way though since I have like 6 so far so they don't take up much space.
 
Here is something i came up with myself. It looks clean and minimal, can be made in a matter of minutes and you can swap covers if you like and can adjust the size to any size you like.

Essentialy, it is a peice of wood with a groove in it. This particular piece of wood is from the end piece of a wooden blind. I just cut it down to about 4" lengths and stained it. This same thing could be made with any small piece of wood and saw a groove into it. I then glue gun the pieces to the wall, as this seems to hold very well without putting a hole in the wall, with no damage once i remove it or relocate it.

In this photo i am using them to hold a poster board, but i used to use it for records and everybody thought it looked great.
 

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Knet70 that looks nice and simple. Could also try out those super sticky adhesive pads like the ones that come on the back of some coat hooks now. I've never used them but they are supposed to be ultra strong and leave no marks when removed.

Nice idea!
 
Found this oriental divider at a garage sale for $5. Pulled off the old ugly screenprint cloth, spray painted it black, hung it on the wall.
Albums are attached with paperclips, change them out as often as you like.
 

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I only display truly horrible/weird albums with truly horrible covers like this:

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And oddities like this:

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But not at my house!
That's what work is for...
 
noise gate said:
Rush, journey, floyd, and boston,,, did I miss any wassilaguy?
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Yes! ZZ Top, Zeppelin, Charlie Daniels, Head East...

Just started collecting, so doesn't exactly represent my heritage. I still need some classics, like Ozark Mtn Daredevils, Blackfoot, REO Speedwagon, Ozzy
 
wasillaguy said:
Yes! ZZ Top, Zeppelin, Charlie Daniels, Head East...

Just started collecting, so doesn't exactly represent my heritage. I still need some classics, like Ozark Mtn Daredevils, Blackfoot, REO Speedwagon, Ozzy
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If you're in Wasilla, you should have all the Portugal The Man LP's...
 
I did something like this in my basement last year with seven inch picture sleeves... I'd always loved to see records displayed in record stores, but was never sure how to go about doing it until one day at my daughter's daycare, I was helping her pick up some photos, and noticed that they were put on the wall with velcro tape.

I decided that my wall would be seven inch picture sleeves, though I only owned a handful. I loved buying singles when I was a kid, but in my era, the late 70s, very few singles had picture sleeves. So I started looking for and buying sleeves without trying to spend too much... My general rule was no more than $10 for any one record (though I did break that a couple of times) and pick songs that I owned as singles as a kid, or just enjoyed at some time in my life. There are also a few from my Pink Floyd collection that made it in...

From there, I looked into different poly sleeve options and found one that I really liked from Bags Unlimited along with cardboard inserts to keep them from bending. I purchased rolls of velcro tape from my local Home Depot and cut them into squares (the most tedious part of the project). I put them up in columns and the first one involved lots of measurements and pencil marks. Once I had a couple of columns up, I could eyeball the position of each sleeve and just make some quick pencil marks where I had attached the velcro to the poly sleeve. The nice thing about velcro is even if the tape on the wall is a little off, I could generally place the sleeve to look good... The vinyl is stored separately.

Here is a panorama of the end result...



Here is the tape on the wall when a sleeve is removed...



Here is the back of one of the poly sleeves with velcro...



Funny thing... when I first told my wife my idea for this, she was petrified. But, once it was completed, she loved it and shows it off to anyone who comes to the house. Now she wants me to continue it on the walls of the stairwell to the right hand side, which will be one of my winter projects.

My three year old daughter loves this and she has a lot of fun looking at the different pictures and then playing the song that goes with it. She has also requested I re-arrange them, because some of the sleeves are scary...
 
wasillaguy said:
Found this oriental divider at a garage sale for $5. Pulled off the old ugly screenprint cloth, spray painted it black, hung it on the wall.
Albums are attached with paperclips, change them out as often as you like.
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I think that's brilliant!
 
Looks a bit record shop but very cool.
Like other's have echoed your gonna need a big wall.
How about sticking them on the ceilings?:scratch2::D
 
Arkay said:
At least half of the record shops in Hong Kong display at least some records on the walls in that fashion --usually above bins or on smaller areas between shelves. It's highly functional, because you can easily slip records in or out. They are also commonly used (with close spacing) to display CDs.
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To me "records on the wall" like this,mean the store knows exactly what they have,and are usually charging a big premium over what you would pay online for the same stuff.:thumbsdn:
 
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