Rhythm Emotion

Long time no blog! Apologies for the sudden hiatus: again, school has taken over my life. That, and I also had no idea what to blog about since school started. I’ve had a repeating pattern of school, work, rest, randomly go out, then repeat, but now I have things to share!

For the longest time, I’ve been meaning to get a shelving cabinet to house my figures. To be honest, I didn’t even know where to start! I’ve been eyeing on other people’s blogs about different kinds of shelving cabinets and ran across IKEA’s DETOLF. There’s an IKEA within 20 minutes from where I live, so I decided to check it out at their showroom and see how it looked. Once I saw it, I instantly fell in love.

I went to IKEA on my own to go pick it up, only to find it out that it’s a hefty 88 lbs. :x so I had to ask Lester to see if he could help me out. We took another trip and finally picked it up! How we got it into the van and into the house, I don’t know, but that’s okay :)

The thing is, before putting the cabinet into my room, I had to do some rearranging. Lots and lots of rearranging.

This was my initial set up: a wooden bookcase sitting in the corner of my room, totally cluttered with tons of stuff. I initially liked the set up because I was able to display everything. However, it was a pain in the rear to dust in between and to get access to my DVDs and manga! I didn’t really have the willpower to actually get around and clear this out until I finally got my new cabinet.

I ended up putting all of my figures into a laundry basket for the meantime. My PVCs and expensive figures were put in another room.

Everything’s all gone! Now where do I put it?

All by my wee self, I moved the old bookcase to the other side of the room next to my dresser. You can see how dusty my dresser and other bookcase got :x This was a pain in the rear to clean too especially since that bookcase was on top. It wasn’t easy getting my books from the top. Also, if there was any kind of sudden movement, the CDs on the CD rack on top would topple over and fall over, knocking over everything. I used to have my PVCs be on top of my dresser until my Asuka broke due to my Remy figure falling off its stand and knocking it over :( Never again.

Again, by myself, I took away the bookcase that was sitting on top of my dresser and moved it elsewhere. I decided to have all of my anime DVDs line the top of my dresser! I haven’t even opened some of the boxsets yet :x Eech. I also started filling up the other bookcase with my books and other media.

I decided to have the bookcase that sat on top my dresser relocate to the other side of the room. Excuse the massive mess on the floor :x

Started to move around some stuff and see what everything would look like if I were to put stuff in the shelves! I’ve yet to complete my Nodame collection :( I actually had to move this out of the way again to make room for the shelving cabinet.

With help from my dad, the detolf was lugged upstairs, all 88 lbs. of it. The glass panels are what make this really heavy ;_; Time to assemble!

After putting the cabinet in the empty space, it looked like my room suddenly got wider. Yay! My room’s always been notorious for being extremely cluttered and messy. Hopefully this’ll help my room breathe.

We got the cabinet set up and I started to rearrange my figures last night. I ended up finishing this afternoon. Here’s the final result:

Top shelf would be all of my pretty PVCs. I finally got to unbox my Kaiyodo Parfait and Cammy and SEGA Aphrodite v. 2 Rei and Asuka. Nendoroid Miku finally came out of her box, too! Wave Yoko came from HLJ. Max Factory Mikuru is actually my first PVC ever ;_; I love her too much.

Second shelf is full of blind box figures, gashapon, and other trading figures. How many series do you see in this picture? What’s scary is that I still have more on top of my TV :x

Third shelf is designated for designer toys. Recent acquisitions would be the orange Dunny, the Spongebob Bearbrick, and the stacked doppelgangers from Kid Robot. As you can see, Uglydoll Babo = my most favorite ever! Oh, and my drooling Labbit, too :)

I’ve decided to leave the last shelf for my Gundams and other mechs. I still have the following to build: 1/100 Exia and Dynames, 1/144 00 Gundam, 1/35 Lancelot, and the non-painted Kinokuniya King Kittan and Gurren Lagann. I’m lagging so bad ^^;

My Pinky St. dolls are now in front of my manga. Some of them have really bad leaning issues, though :( Any suggestions on straightening them out would be highly appreciated. My poor Pinkies T_T

My Pinky St. babies from left to right: Hoshi, Beezy, and Ramune. I had names for Hoshi and Ramune before, but I realized I never named the middle one since I got her later than the others so I just named her right now, lol.

My lone Figmas just chillin’ by themselves. I haven’t bought any Figmas since Konata, but I really want that Reimu figma… homg. She looks so beautiful.

I’ve moved all of my plushes that were on top of my old bookcase to another area. And yes, I’m still a huge Digimon fan :x

How the other end of my room looks. You can kind of see my box tower on the side ^^; I also finally get to display my Silver Surfer Mighty Mugg! My first Mighty Mugg ever courtesy of Melvin :)

Some more little figures that I decided to keep on my drawer. My most favorite one of them all is the Oryzae, hahaha.

And there you have it! My figures now have a beautiful space to be displayed in and my room benefited from all the rearrangements. I’m tired from moving everything around, but I think it’s all worth it. I still have some things to move around in my room but for now, I’m content with it :)

Tags: cabinet, detolf, Figures, ikea, remodel, room