decorative glass Today I found this cabinet made with decorative glass that's been tempered for safety and long life. The doors are sliding and it is 49" high, 32" wide, and 9.5" deep. The beauty of this cabinet is that it uses decorative glass so that the contents can be seen without sliding the doors open. It weighs 77 pounds so it's solidly built. The beauty of this unit is really how much it contains. It will hold close to 600 CDs or 200 DVDs, so it's big enough to house my entire collection of both.

The name of this cabinet is the WINDOWPANES 584-CD MULTIMEDIA STORAGE CABINET and it would solve my storage problems for all my CDs and DVDs which seem to multiply faster than coat hangers. I prefer decorative glass doors for my storage cabinets than solid fronts because I like how the different colors look, just like those old barrister bookcases with the decorative glass in them, which is sometimes beveled.

I've been learning a lot about tempered glass lately for reasons other than furniture and while it will break, it takes a lot to do it. The biggest advantage of tempered decorative glass is that it shatters when it breaks which makes it safer for use in furniture like coffee tables or glass fronts for bookshelves or storage shelves. Untempered glass will break into sharp shards, so buying untempered decorative glass is a bad idea.

I found this cabinet at Circuit Values located at http://www.circuitvalues.com, a site with a lot of different types of merchandise. They have a fair selection of everything on this site and most of it is discounted. Some online stores have buying advantages over others because of access to wholesalers who have good pricing strategies for their retailers. This DVD/CD cabinet is being sold at a discount and it is a very tempting offer. I know it would look great in the living room and getting all our discs in one place and organized would be a very good thing.

I'd like to get the movies separated from the CDs and both CDs and DVDs by genre alphabetically. Then I'd arrange the CDs by composer and the movies by title. That way, I could just look through the decorative glass and have an idea of where the music or movies I want are without having to struggle through the media as it is now, just arranged by whether it's a CD or DVD. Sounds like a good plan to me, so I'm going to be ordering this and waiting expectantly for its arrival.