Here's one from the Bachelor-on-a-tight-budget days. Making furniture out of bricks and boards. Easy to assemble, easy to move to a new place, easy to shop for, easy on the budget.
Here where I have recently moved to, I have re-assembled one that my brother and I had made back in the 1980s when we were single guys sharing an apartment.
You need 4 small red bricks to be the base for the lowest first shelve and then two narrow cinderblocks to support each shelf above. Nothing to attach. Just stack it up and gravity does the rest.
Back in the day, we bought these 48" x 10" x 3/4" rough redwood boards as the shelves. There is a purple ink price marking on one end that reads $1.88. I recall 6 footers being $2.59 and we also made a ten foot long unit using a 4 foot and 6 foot section for our stereo system and for all our vinyl records. The 10 foot unit was 2 boards deep. This bookcase is one board deep.
An additional bonus to this simple construction, is that it is quite resistant to earthquakes. I lived in San Francisco in 1989 at the time of the big Loma Prieta earthquake and the only things left standing in my apartment was the Brick and Board furniture. It moved with the quake rather than falling over.
Here where I have recently moved to, I have re-assembled one that my brother and I had made back in the 1980s when we were single guys sharing an apartment.
You need 4 small red bricks to be the base for the lowest first shelve and then two narrow cinderblocks to support each shelf above. Nothing to attach. Just stack it up and gravity does the rest.
Back in the day, we bought these 48" x 10" x 3/4" rough redwood boards as the shelves. There is a purple ink price marking on one end that reads $1.88. I recall 6 footers being $2.59 and we also made a ten foot long unit using a 4 foot and 6 foot section for our stereo system and for all our vinyl records. The 10 foot unit was 2 boards deep. This bookcase is one board deep.
An additional bonus to this simple construction, is that it is quite resistant to earthquakes. I lived in San Francisco in 1989 at the time of the big Loma Prieta earthquake and the only things left standing in my apartment was the Brick and Board furniture. It moved with the quake rather than falling over.