I have often thought about, for my basement, putting up a "shelf" (for lack of a better term) on three sides of the wall, to have a "two tier" display. You could display kits all along 3 sides of the wall (in a "U" or "C" shape) on the floor, and then double up your space above it and do it all again. The problem I think would be, securing the shelf to the wall and making it stable. To display a kit in it's "ready to play" position (with of course the batter side of the bass drum being all the way against the wall-no pedal attached), the shelf would need to be about 18-20" inches deep to allow for the thickness of hoops etc.

I guess you could secure it with braces underneath? I would love to try this! Medium Density Fiberboard might work. Depending on if you displayed cymbals/stands at playing height, if you had high enough ceilings, you could maybe do three tiers all the way around. That would be cool!

Has anyone ever tried the "shelf" method? I would love to try this, but the ceilings in my concrete block basement (built in 1947) are only about 7 feet tall, so that would be tough, unless I put the shelf at exactly 3.5 feet and just lowered toms and cymbals as needed.

Reading this thread made me wonder if I could attach a drawing from my cabinet design software, so I threw together, a basic design. I was able to attach it, now I need to go make the shelves glass and put glass panels in all three sides. This thing is 20" square and 72" tall, drums inserted via removable back. I always wanted to build something like this for myself but seem to never have time. My drum display is pretty bad.

This way is......not for everyone.

I second that! I looked at that magazine for days. What a great article & Mike what a great way to show off all those beauties. It inspired me.

I have another rack coming this weekend for the bedroom.

I'm very fortunate to have a musician wife who understands the passion we have. Life is good!

That's the best use of concert toms I have ever seen!:)

A few years ago I made a shelf for some snares out of metal closet rods and shelf brackets from The Home Depot. This expanded to three (at my wife's suggestion) during a recent redo of the room so that more drums could be on display. I recently added a set of IKEA shelves that I read about in another post a year or two ago. Those shelves hold some of the better drums. I also have a stereo cabinet which holds snares on the other side of the room. I was also fortunate enough to find some old drum store fixtures (cymbal rack and drum stick rack) that work well. The drumstick holder doubles as a wine rack, although stock is a bit low right now.

Nothing here was very expensive (other than some of the drums themselves).

I will be adding back the drum lights and floor tom sink when I can (in the third and fourth pictures taken in 2008). The ceilings had to be redone due to a water leak on the floor above. No drums were harmed, but it was a bit of a mess for a while.

Note: After looking at what I had in 2008 and what I have now, it makes me think that maybe I do have a little hoarding issue. Especially when you consider what is not on display. However, I sold two drums last week and am delivering one to a new owner next week, so I probably have it under control. :)

I agree but I'd still buy Zildjians.

The last one I bought was riddled with cracks but it sounds awesome. It was really cheap that way too! Bonus!

I also saw that (awesome collection by the way) and I think it is FAR more accurate to say that his wife IS THE WOMAN for tolerating that collection!

I would be drawn and quartered to even suggest any interior decorating approaching that display.

Perhaps she is well trained but regardless, good job!Bowing

In my drumgeon I have a built in shelf I added where the base of the chimney is. I built a typical furniture grade plywood (back)/white pine top, bottom, sides box and inserted it with a single white pine divider running top to bottom so the left side is a bit over three feet wide and the right side is about 16-17 inches wide. The part I haven't finished yet is the shelf brackets on the inside (and some trim). This way, regardless of the snare drum height, each can have a shelf with no wasted space. Same brackets on the other side allow wide shelves for books, heads etc. I should take a picture although at the moment the snares are just piled up on the right side...

Well, for what it's worth I've been in drum shops with less inventory! Nice collection!