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   gordzco | Jun 30, 2005 04:02am | #1

   One way to do it would be to hang the center cabinets from a track, like a pocket door track. The center cabinets would be suspended from this track. Mount the pocket door track on a front to back slides which would all be fastened, and operate, above the outer bookcases. Hide all the hardware behind a valance or crown, etc. I hope I explained this so you could understand.

   Sounds complicated. Why not install a roll down screen?

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   Potwin1885 | Jun 30, 2005 07:31am | #2

   Hey you are on to something.  I can hang the shelf units from the pocket door track.  Mount those in a frame that slides on ball bearing slides.  Thank you.

   Mark

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   RalphWicklund | Jun 30, 2005 08:08am | #3

   That's a neat idea but doesn't that permanently eat up a few extra SF of the total room space available. All the shelves, in the bookcase position, would have to be positioned into the room in an amount equal to the depth of the shelf units plus the clearance needed to slide the units back and behind.

   How about placing all the units back against the wall and hinging the two centers so they open out and back like a double door, overlaying the front of the outboard shelving units? Not cool enough?<G>

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   piko | Jun 30, 2005 09:02am | #4

   HAve you any idea how heavy the shelves - loaded - will be. No-one's mentioned rollers on the floor yet. How will they affect any carpet?

   If you don't like Ralph's idea (can't get to the bookshelves), then have them hinged between each pair such that their backs fold towards each other. Like bifolds, eh.

   But sounds like you're trying to be too clever by half IMNSHOcheers

   ***I'm a contractor - but I'm trying to go straight!***

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   Potwin1885 | Jun 30, 2005 09:24am | #5

   I have found heavy duty commercial grade pocket door hardware that supports 300 lbs each side.  Plus some 500 lb each side ball bearing slides.  Since I now just do carpentry for myself and my own house I enjoy the "cool" factor.  Like to show off some too I guess.  I also have found some speakers from Stealth Accoustics that are completely invisible.  They have a paper face and are mudded into the wall and painted over.  Now to figure out how to put subwoofers in the floor under the recliners!   COOL!

   Mark

    

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   piko | Jun 30, 2005 05:03pm | #6

   I surrender to your heavy artillery!cheers

   ***I'm a contractor - but I'm trying to go straight!***

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   CapnMac | Jun 30, 2005 07:26pm | #7

   Now to figure out how to put subwoofers in the floor under the recliners! 

   Since they're omni directional, SW are really not very location dependant.  My favorite place for them is actually hidden in an end table, or in a bit of cabinetry. 

   "Best" location to "feel" the bass, is in solid floor contact.

   You want that effect, put a wire outlet on the floor in front of the seating, put the SW there, and put a coffee table "top" on the SW (cool side effect of recreating the Jurassic Park effect, too).Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)

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   JasonQ | Jun 30, 2005 09:36pm | #8

   Now to figure out how to put subwoofers in the floor under the recliners!   COOL!

   Well, they aren't subs, but I would suggest looking into a type of device called a "Bass Shaker."    They give a subwoofer experience without the bulk - they can be mounted underneath seats, in fact.  See the two links below:

   Bass Shakers

   Pro Bass Shakers

   Jason

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   gordzco | Jul 01, 2005 06:04am | #9

   I always thought the coolest were TV's that dropped and raised on hydraulics.

   Seems to me there was a discussion about that sometime ago... 

   Why not bookcases dropping the same way. Frame a hole in the floor so 48" of bookcase disappears into a 30" cabinet. An optical illusion and you could do it by pushing a button instead of walking over and sliding around 600 lbs of books.

   That would be beyond the realm of cool...