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Mid Century Modern Solid Wood Tall Media Cabinet – UPDATED w/ NEW INFO - $150 (Ann Arbor)
condition:
excellent
make / manufacturer:
Unknown
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This cabinet ROCKS - VERY tall, (7’ 9”) MCM solid wood narrow cabinet. It has metal shelving that can be removed. Personally, we thought this would make a perfect cabinet for someone who has a HUGE CD or DVD collection.
The first picture shows the front face of the cabinet. If you zoom in, you can see how well aligned the push-to-open solid doors are. Those MCM doors are almost irreplaceable. Nothing comes in that size nowadays.
Sadly, nobody seemed to like the atomic looking shelves, so we thought about removing them. Then we had to answer a question about if the metal shelves could be removed, so we did. (Answer: not easily).
My FIL was a designer by trade. We were laughing trying to get that unit off the wall. Totally over-engineered so they would last forever. These were handmade by my FIL and are solid wood. This isn't oak but we’re not sure what wood it is.
We got the cabinet down and the next pictures are pictures of what remains.
Exterior - The shelves are 38 5/8" L x 11" W (or 11 3/4" with the board) x 93" tall.
Interior – The shells is 38.5 L x nothing cz no shelves x 91.75" tall.
The pic showing the bottom half of the shelf is showing the riser so the cabinet doesn’t rest on the floor in case of water.
The last picture shows there is some scuffing etc on the cabinet because it was installed in the early to mid 1980’s at the latest... it's been a minute.
About the lack of backing – there are 2 choices.
1) This was attached to a board, which had similar thin wood panels covering them. The picture of the corner where the cabinet was previously located shows it is in great condition. There are no gray lines. That's just shadow from the cage on Guy's work lights we were using because we're upgrading the electric lighting and that corner needed light. If you are interested in this option, that would add (guessing), about 3/4" to the width.
2) The only other option you have is to use similar old paneling which is thinner and very closely matches the cabinet too. It is up on a different wall that is also being changed to drywall too. We think he built this cabinet somewhere around 1965 to the mid-70s. Most of the cabinets we've sold so far had oak framing and a paneling back. We think that's just what they did in those days. It will weigh less than the board and you will still have a visual wood interior.
This unit was anchored to a rear and side wall, it wasn't stand alone. Adding the backing board should give it stability but we wouldn't leave it without an anchor point to something. Similar to those safety hooks that you often get with new units. When a unit is loaded, it can topple over even if it is built as a stand-alone.
We can cut either board or paneling to fit.
WHAT ABOUT THE SHELVES?
We have shelving brackets that we could include at no additional cost, however most of the large amount of shelves he used are broader/longer than this unit so you’d have buy other interior shelves to adapt.