Last time I wrote about a few different possibilities how to use IKEA stuff in order to organize and display your collection in a nice and effective way.
Today I want to show you some additional ideas. Most of the stuff I use in my own Game Room aswell.
So, lets start with the tricky task of storing your manuals. Especially when it comes to Game Boy manuals. There are different cases, how I store my Game Boy manuals:
Case 1:. I own the matching box and game, so they are of course stored with them to have the whole item as CIB as possible.
Case 2: I own the cartridge and the manual. Since I want to have my games kinda displayed in order to see all of them while deciding which game to play, I came across the idea of using DS cases, while searching on the internet. I don’t remember anymore, where I read about it and by whom the idea was invented (but hey, this guy or girl is my personnel hero lol), but it works great. I print the matching covers at The Cover Project (or at another site that offers the same service) and am able to store them perfectly in my Gnedby shelf 🙂
Gnedby shelf with Ds cases, that store my GameBoy games 🙂
DS case with printed Kirby’s Dream Land GB cover
Storage option 1: modifying the case, so the GB cartridge fits. Problem here is that the clip on the left is way to loose to hold the manual at its right place.
Storage option 2: just clipping game and manual to the side. Works pretty good imho (maybe you shouldn’t shake the case too much, but its imho the best option and you don’t have to destroy the case)
Case 3: duplicates, manuals without cartridge (or even box), etc. Well, i was searching for years to find a good storage solution for them. One day I came across Ikea’s Tjena.
GB manuals fit perfectly
Zelda GB manual doesn’t fit perfectly due to its height
GameBoy Color manuals don’t fit that well
SNES manuals do fit but its the same problem due to their height
Another great option to use Tjena is to store your duplicate GB cartridges (Note: this works only without the GB plastic cases):
Of course Tjena fits perfectly into the Billy shelf.
To store my (PAL) SNES games, I found another great item:
STÖDJA
Unfortunatly this works just for the Pal versions, since these are smaller.
They do not fit perfectly into Billy shelves since they are actually kitchen items, but I’d say it’s still okay 🙂
So, this was the second part of my storage ideas. I really hope that it’s a bit helpful for you. Have fun collecting and displaying!
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