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Title: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 02:41:42 PM: My drawers are almost full. So before I expand, I thought it'd be interesting to see everyone's set up. Collecting is fun, but it takes room.

My print drawer, officially full:

(http://www.eatbrie.com/large_posters_files/Photos/Organizing11.jpg)

The rest of the folded stuff is crowded too - the rolled posters are in the next room (picture later).

(http://www.eatbrie.com/large_posters_files/Photos/Organizing12.jpg)(http://www.eatbrie.com/large_posters_files/Photos/Organizing13.jpg)

T
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: mahmudf on February 12, 2011, 02:45:14 PM: I like how the drawers are flush with the wall, i would like to do this but my next door neighbours might not be too impressed
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Post by: Zorba on February 12, 2011, 02:46:31 PM: Cool set up T....and great thread idea.

Im still new and looking for ideas for ways to store my crap.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 02:53:24 PM: The thing is, I am very, VERY organized. There is one poster on the wall inside my house, the same one for the past 6 months (French War of the Worlds), the rest is in the garage perfectly organized. I can find anything I want within a minute or two. Since the file cabinet is inside the wall, people see it without seeing it and don't even acknowledge it. Coming here, you would never know that I own posters.

T
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Neo on February 12, 2011, 03:17:01 PM: Quote from: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 02:53:24 PM
Coming here, you would never know that I own posters.

T

It is shocking to me that you don't display more of that beautiful eye candy. You could probably fit a hundred or so posters on your walls, which would leave enough room in your file cabinets for maybe an entire month or two of new purchases. 8)

Here is my humble file cabinet and I have a few rolled in the utility closet that wouldn't fit in the flat file and/or I didn't want to contaminate the ones in the flat file.
(http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx303/NeoLoco80/1056.jpg)
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: ddilts399 on February 12, 2011, 05:44:05 PM: How to NOT store your posters.

(http://www.movieposters4u.net/images/img_0893.jpg)

If it is in here and in my collection, I can find it:

(http://www.movieposters4u.net/images/img_0892.jpg)

If in my collection and here, forget about it (I have 3 other shelves like this):

(http://www.movieposters4u.net/images/img_0894.jpg)

If for sale, I can find it, store in boxes, have these shelves all over the place.

(http://www.movieposters4u.net/images/img_0895.jpg) (http://www.movieposters4u.net/images/img_0896.jpg)

Like my parents said, do as I say, not as I do ;D
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 05:46:19 PM: What a nightmare, Dale, I don't know how you do it. I'd go crazy within 5 minutes.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Zorba on February 12, 2011, 05:52:08 PM: Quote from: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 05:46:19 PM
What a nightmare, Dale, I don't know how you do it. I'd go crazy within 5 minutes.

Pretty amazing actually considering how quickly and well he ships stuff.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 05:54:51 PM: Oh..Er...Dale's looks more organised than mine. I could spend days looking for a certain poster. The only things organised in my collection are my Film Magazine's, Lobby's, Stills, and Autographs to an extent. Even my Dvd's and 16mm films are all over. I think size of House and space must make a difference. Though I have been in this house for 18 months, I am no where near organised.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 05:56:34 PM: I'm glad to see the all important tool of the poster collector in Dale's.. The Tape measure, mine is always at hand. ;D
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Zorba on February 12, 2011, 05:57:38 PM: Pic. Please! ;) 8)
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:01:05 PM: I will post some tomorrow Zorba, We were watching 22 Bullets, Yvonne has now fell asleep, so I'm finishing the Wine, while watching Monkey Business... and typing on here. wynk
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 06:02:47 PM: What wine? Where's the wine?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Zorba on February 12, 2011, 06:03:57 PM: Cheers! ;D
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:07:27 PM: Surprisingly it's a Red Wine from the U.S. called Redwood Creek a cab sav, Very nice Californian. I with you on the What's better posters, or Wine and Cheese....MMM may go and get some Cheese and Crackers. ;D
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: stewart boyle on February 12, 2011, 06:17:40 PM: Quote from: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:07:27 PM
Surprisingly it's a Red Wine from the U.S. called Redwood Creek a cab sav, Very nice Californian. I with you on the What's better posters, or Wine and Cheese....MMM may go and get some Cheese and Crackers. ;D

Its gotta be Ritz..and if you like a cheeky cab sauv...chilean is the way to go...casillero del diablo cabernet sauvignon is the best..

Stew
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 06:18:37 PM: Wine and cheese will ALWAYS take over posters.

ALWAYS!
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:25:39 PM: Monkey business has finished, Duck Soup now playing, only had Jacob's and hovis crackers, jolly nice though. I do prefer Australian Wine's ( Sorry T ) linderman's, Wolf blass, or Californian reds. I do have a mixture of Merlot, Cab Sav, Shiraz, Or what ever's on offer. :D

Should this be in the Drink Thread...
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Zorba on February 12, 2011, 06:29:24 PM: Freedonia!
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:34:24 PM: Chickoliny, pick a number from 1-10.

11. laugh1

Oh... need more tot.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 06:35:09 PM: Okay, back to my freakin' thread. I want to see your setups.

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Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Harry Caul on February 12, 2011, 06:39:46 PM: I'm too embarassed to show mine... piles of tubes all over (some unopened), stacks of posters, books on some to flatten folds, old boxes from Sue's frames full of flat posters under the bed... it's a disaster at the moment. I'm about the pull the trigger on a nice flat file so I'm hoping to catalog and photograph everything as it goes in.

Does anyone know of a good digital solution of keep track of posters and photos? Excel sucks, but I would like something like that to store the photos, poster name, year, director, condition, price paid, etc.... Ideally a future website would be able to access it for displaying, sorting, searching, etc....
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:43:13 PM: Come on Harry, I'm posting mine tomorrow. It will be most embarrassing, but what the heck.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: stewart boyle on February 12, 2011, 06:48:13 PM: Please...if anyone is "up there"..dont let me get to the stage where i have to choose between my sofa or my posters...please... :D

Stew
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Harry Caul on February 12, 2011, 06:49:38 PM: Quote from: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:43:13 PM
Come on Harry, I'm posting mine tomorrow. It will be most embarrassing, but what the heck.

You gonna show your ass? ;D
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:54:29 PM: Quote from: Harry Caul on February 12, 2011, 06:49:38 PM
You gonna show your ass? ;D

I don't want to close the site... ;D
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: wonka on February 12, 2011, 07:11:16 PM: Thierry, do you have your prints/posters in sleeves?

Ferris looks like its in a sleeve...mylar, perhaps?

Semi on topic: do you (or anyone) feel the need to use backing boards with mylar/poly sleeves?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 07:18:07 PM: The Sleeves I use Have a backing board as standard. It maybe possible to see in this pic.

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0754.jpg)
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 07:22:14 PM: No sleeves. Ferris came with one last night, and since it's the last one in the drawer, I left it. Otherwise, no, no need.

T
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: ddilts399 on February 12, 2011, 08:08:03 PM: The stuff I sell is actually very organized and easy to find. My keeper collection, I have 95% inventoried and know what I have, I just dont know where I have it, if not in the flat file!
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 08:21:35 PM: Quote from: ddilts399 on February 12, 2011, 08:08:03 PM
The stuff I sell is actually very organized and easy to find. My keeper collection, I have 95% inventoried and know what I have, I just dont know where I have it, if not in the flat file!

That's how one loses a Stout Big Trouble in Little China.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Neo on February 12, 2011, 08:36:46 PM: Quote from: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 07:22:14 PM
No sleeves. Ferris came with one last night, and since it's the last one in the drawer, I left it. Otherwise, no, no need.

T

Do you not use mylar or poly sleeves because you live in a low humidity area? All the posters in my flat file are in poly sleeves because I figured it would be better living in an area with high humidity and it seems to give me some sense that they will be more safe, am I correct assuming that?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: ddilts399 on February 12, 2011, 08:43:36 PM: Quote from: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 08:21:35 PM
That's how one loses a Stout Big Trouble in Little China.

;D exactly, there are only so many places a tube can hide around here!
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 08:51:54 PM: Quote from: NeoLoco on February 12, 2011, 08:36:46 PM
Do you not use mylar or poly sleeves because you live in a low humidity area? All the posters in my flat file are in poly sleeves because I figured it would be better living in an area with high humidity and it seems to give me some sense that they will be more safe, am I correct assuming that?

I don't know. Maybe. I know I don't need them here. But if I were to live in Miami, the story might be different. My flat posters don't need it for sure. My rolled posters are in rolls of 50. Each roll is in a poly bag (or whatever it's called) just in case of a flood, because the back of a garage can be more prone to humidity than other places, but mainly so that they don't touch the cardboard tube. Humidity is really not a factor in Southern Cal.

T
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Neo on February 12, 2011, 09:00:45 PM: Quote from: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 08:51:54 PM
I don't know. Maybe. I know I don't need them here. But if I were to live in Miami, the story might be different. My flat posters don't need it for sure. My rolled posters are in rolls of 50. Each roll is in a poly bag (or whatever it's called) just in case of a flood, because the back of a garage can be more prone to humidity than other places, but mainly so that they don't touch the cardboard tube. Humidity is really not a factor in Southern Cal.

T

Good idea on keeping the rolled ones in poly bags, for the reasons you stated. I should probably find a few for the few posters I have that are in cardboard tubes that need to be linen backed and framed. You guys in California are lucky that you don't have to worry about the humidity.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 12, 2011, 09:02:13 PM: Yeah, and we also have the Lakers.

sm1
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 08:40:18 AM: A couple of pics of the un-organised collection at Waines Manor...

If it was only posters I think I would be O.K. Unfortunately I have several thousand Film Magazines of mostly Horror films, about 1500 books, amongst the other stuff.

This is the linen closet, one side full of Mags.

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0337.jpg)

This is the small back bed room, which is my main poster room, both flat file's full and all draws full.

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0339.jpg)

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0338.jpg)

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0340.jpg)

This room is going to be my home cinema, when I can get it finished. At the moment a bit of a store room

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0347.jpg)

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0346.jpg)

The study is finished, but no where near enough space for all the books.

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0345.jpg)

And the loft is full to bursting.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Dr Hackenbush on February 13, 2011, 09:19:56 AM: Quote from: paul waines on February 12, 2011, 06:34:24 PM
Chickoliny, pick a number from 1-10.

11. laugh1

Oh... need more tot.

reporting on shadowing Firefly]
Chicolini: Monday we watch-a Firefly's house, but he no come he wasn't home. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us: he no show up. Wednesday HE go to the ball game, but we fool him, WE no show up. Thursday it was a double-header, nobody show up. Friday it rained all day, there was no ball game, so we stayed home, we listen to it over the radio.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 10:51:49 AM: Sssh, This is Spy stuff...

Such a great film. It should be on everyone's top 20. ooops wrong thread, the Boy gets no cigar. ;D
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 13, 2011, 10:56:41 AM: Quote from: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 08:40:18 AM
This is the small back bed room, which is my main poster room, both flat file's full and all draws full.

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0339.jpg)

How do you open the drawers of the back cabinet?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 11:31:47 AM: Carefully... ;)

They do actually open 3/4 of the way out, but you have to stand at the side of it. I am hoping not to have the bookcase's in there when we eventually get the house finished. So there will be much more room.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Zorba on February 13, 2011, 11:39:07 AM: Paul you had me hopes up for a much greater disaster. Considering the amount of stuff that isnt that bad at all. Though I do see what you mean about having to find and dig something out.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 11:48:15 AM: You should see the Loft..
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: ddilts399 on February 13, 2011, 01:23:35 PM: When you are a massive poster hoarder, you need to buy your flat files in 3 or 4 stacks instead of the single or doubles. Go about 5' or 6' high, I am on the hunt for another, put the word in at the local office salvage, see how long it takes for them to come up with one, maybe by then I can figure out where to put it! The last one I got in the pictures was only 375 or so delivered/setup. I want the 2" drawers this time though, the 1" you just cant get enough in a drawer.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 13, 2011, 01:23:59 PM: Let's see the Loft.

And others... don't be shy... show us your goodies.
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Post by: stewart boyle on February 13, 2011, 01:25:45 PM: Quote from: eatbrie on February 13, 2011, 01:23:59 PM
Let's see the Loft.

And others... don't be shy... show us your goodies.

I was gonna ask the same T,but thought it might be pushing it laugh1

Stew
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 01:29:25 PM: Seeing It's you guy's I'll go take a pic Now, Back in 10.
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Post by: stewart boyle on February 13, 2011, 01:31:22 PM: Result !!,but i will pre prepare...with this.... jawdrop

Stew
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 01:47:26 PM: You cannot see a lot most is still boxed up, But...

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0368.jpg)

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0369.jpg)

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0372.jpg)

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0371.jpg)

(http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/ss348/frankenstein31_photos/PICT0349.jpg)

just enough space each side to get to the end of the House.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: stewart boyle on February 13, 2011, 01:53:08 PM: Outstanding Paul ;D god you are so organised..my attic is shameful compared to this..

Thanks for the photos!

Stew

Was looking for an Elmo box...must be hidden in the garage..can you check??
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Post by: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 01:54:28 PM: Is that the Projector, or the Muppet?
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Post by: stewart boyle on February 13, 2011, 01:56:19 PM: You know which.. ;D..infact don`t bother it will only p**s me off woohoo

Stew
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Post by: Harry Caul on February 13, 2011, 02:38:13 PM: Ok, here is my poster disaster area....

ATTIC

A work table with a bunch of rolls of one sheets, quads, HSs, inserts, etc...

(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7035/p1000454v.jpg)

Another work area with stacks of foldeds....

(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/173/p1000455k.jpg)

Here are a bunch of boxes of rolled posters in tubes that I still haven't opened since we moved almost 2 years ago now. Notice the crazy box in the middle with a large tube in it... that is a Bonnie and Clyde French 1-panel on linen.

(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/8910/p1000466x.jpg)

And here is a peak inside the wardrobe box filled with tubes and a few flat packed posters... The one in the upper left is my R51 French 1-panel for Beauty and the Beast!

(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/1115/p1000462l.jpg)

SPARE BEDROOM

This bedroom is turning into a nursery so I'm going to have to get these out of here eventually. For now it is an old box from one of Sue's frames that has been converted to flat storage. I have a piece of acid free foam core on the top and bottom, with a bunch of books on top to help flatten folds.

(http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/1375/p1000469.jpg)

I just flipped through for the first time in a while and there are some nice posters in there....

(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9320/p1000470u.jpg)

(http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/7550/p1000471b.jpg)

(http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/3222/p1000473m.jpg)

Here is that Black Christmas (with correct title) review 1-sheet I posted about a while back...

(http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/5628/p1000474.jpg)

Dance of the Vampires quad (cough) See Paul! ;D (cough)

(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/2717/p1000475g.jpg)

Its getting better the deeper I go...

(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3740/p1000476x.jpg)

And my prize near the bottom... a matte finish NM Goldfinger 1-sheet

(http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/747/p1000477d.jpg)

DOWNSTAIRS

But wait, there is more.... this work room downstairs was supposed to house the majority of our books (from two academics) and a nice big work table to spread out on. However, my posters have slowly invaded this space too... Here are some recent acquisitions (including my Big Lebowski, From Dusk Till Dawn, some bond quads and my yellow White Zombie silkscreen on linen.

(http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/7817/p1000480r.jpg)

Back in the corner you see unopened tubes of Alamo Star Wars prints, empty tubes for shipping and even on the top of the bookshelves I have another growing stack of folded posters. I swear this is a like a disease...

(http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/7824/p1000482xq.jpg)
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Post by: stewart boyle on February 13, 2011, 02:45:39 PM: I love the sneek peeks in these posts..Example..Here is my new Sex and the city poster that just happens to be lying next to an original Metropolis quad..if i had any gems to display i would do the same.. ;D

Thanks to all who have posted..wonderfull laugh1

Stew
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 13, 2011, 02:53:41 PM: Do you know I never thought of taking pic's of some of the posters on the way, I was too busy looking at box's and draws. hitself

Real nice Harry, you have some jollyfine stuff looking at it.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Neo on February 13, 2011, 08:27:31 PM: Very impressive, gentlemen...And 10 years from now, we will all be featured in our own episode of Hoarders. :D
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Post by: Harry Caul on February 13, 2011, 11:47:07 PM: Quote from: NeoLoco on February 13, 2011, 08:27:31 PM
Very impressive, gentlemen...And 10 years from now, we will all be featured in our own episode of Hoarders. :D

One can dream!
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: agentprovocateur on February 14, 2011, 05:26:21 AM: Quote from: Harry Caul on February 13, 2011, 02:38:13 PM
SPARE BEDROOM

(http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/1375/p1000469.jpg)

I just flipped through for the first time in a while and there are some nice posters in there....

(http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/9320/p1000470u.jpg)

Harry, get your totem out now!!!!

After analysing the two photos above and having only just watched inception I'm seriously worried your being targeted my specialist film poster extractors 8) Notice the weird gravity in your spare bedroom, books and posters stuck to your walls... ahhh, have you been experiencing weird weather lately?

Quality collection! ;D
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: wonka on February 14, 2011, 10:46:37 AM: Really enjoyed the pictures and informative walk through...very fun. Thanks, Harry C!

I should have taken pics of my similar set up (various rooms) before I started getting more organized, it was getting comical. (Well to me, not to my wife).

Now I am fusing all my stuff to just one poster closet instead of three, and putting several things in a flat file that was sitting in my garage for over a year. I just have to attach the steel legs it came with, which are pretty cool, not to mention helpful. Will post pics later on.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Bruce on February 15, 2011, 05:34:24 PM: I have a few flat files, but after you get tens of thousands of posters, you need something more substantial.

So I built my own:

(http://www.emovieposter.com/club/staticpages/fixedprice_flat_storage_files.jpg)

I also have a few tubes stacked on top of the shelves.

Bruce
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: wonka on February 15, 2011, 05:41:25 PM: Bruce, that is cool. Is that set up for your personal stuff, or for temporary holding purposes for eMovie?
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Post by: Zorba on February 15, 2011, 05:48:09 PM: Quote from: wonka on February 15, 2011, 05:41:25 PM
Bruce, that is cool. Is that set up for your personal stuff, or for temporary holding purposes for eMovie?

Agree...that is cool!....Im thinking emovie ??
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Bruce on February 15, 2011, 05:52:37 PM: Definitely eMoviePoster!

Sometimes people drive up with truckloads of posters, and we need to be able to handle ANY quantity.

One guy came with 50,000 posters and he said, "That will keep you going for many years" and I said, "Since we auction 100,000 items a year, that's only 6 months worth" and he was surprised!

Bruce
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: 50s on February 15, 2011, 06:15:28 PM: Great to see the photos, Bruce. What about folded posters eg 6-sheets?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: 110x75 on February 15, 2011, 06:42:06 PM: Quote from: Bruce on February 15, 2011, 05:34:24 PM

(http://www.emovieposter.com/club/staticpages/fixedprice_flat_storage_files.jpg)

Bruce

I wouln`t mind having those in my house...
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Bruce on February 15, 2011, 06:54:05 PM: I'll take some more pictures that show other storage areas.

Bruce
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 15, 2011, 09:21:51 PM: Are you saying that the posters we bought from you over the years have been in there at some point?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: wonka on February 15, 2011, 09:28:42 PM: I was wondering the same thing. Is that place climate controlled? Do you have acid free mulberry paper at the bottom of each drawer?

More importantly, where is Angie?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: eatbrie on February 17, 2011, 10:25:11 PM: Some of my rolled posters, by year, in tubes of 50...

(http://www.eatbrie.com/large_posters_files/Photos/Organizing15.jpg)

A few 11x14in lobby card sets...

(http://www.eatbrie.com/large_posters_files/Photos/Organizing14.jpg)

T
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: CJ138 on February 20, 2011, 09:09:35 AM: I have been organizing my posters by style/size in my flat file. For example I have a drawer of folded one sheets and separate drawers for rolled one sheets and quads. I know Thierry keeps rolled posters rolled but does anyone else store everything flat?

Also, we are getting ready to put the house on the market and the real estate agent recommended I take all my framed stuff down. I want to keep them in the frames does it matter if I stack them flat on top of each other or is it better to lean them vertically somewhere?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: paul waines on February 20, 2011, 09:42:28 AM: I cannot believe how organised T is... it must take some of the mystery out of life. I love having a mooch and finding something I forgot I had. ;D

Storage-wise, I try to keep as much stuff as possible stored flat. With regards to the framed posters, I would definitely store them vertical. They can damage each other too easily staked.

Just moved (well 18 months ago ) myself, some people have no taste when it come's to what's on your wall's. Mind I had Blood from Dracula's Castle, King kong vs Godzilla, and Frankenstein and the Monster from hell up. :)
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: CJ138 on February 20, 2011, 10:12:41 AM: Quote from: paul waines on February 20, 2011, 09:42:28 AM
I cannot believe how organised T is... it must take some of the mystery out of life. I love having a mooch and finding something I forgot I had. ;D

Storage-wise, I try to keep as much stuff as possible stored flat. With regards to the framed posters, I would definitely store them vertical. They can damage each other too easily staked.

Just moved (well 18 months ago ) myself, some people have no taste when it come's to what's on your wall's. Mind I had Blood from Dracula's Castle, King kong vs Godzilla, and Frankenstein and the Monster from hell up. :)

Haha! You are my kind of guy Paul! My collection is primarily horror, I cannot fault the real estate agent for his advice considering what I had up.
Thanks for the advice, vertical it is.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: AdamCarterJones on February 20, 2011, 06:46:37 PM: How do you upload images that aren't somewhere else?
I only know how to upload images that I have uploaded to my website.

Anyway, T - that is one heck of a set-up you have, never mind organisation.
You know the lobby card sets you pictured? What are they in, and what are they stored in?

Best,
Adam
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: raulleaf on June 04, 2011, 09:37:15 PM: So they actually just put in the carpet today; but until I saw T's stuff I thought I was taking it a bit overboard. I had a wall adjacent to my garage having a 3' raised ledge so I knocked down the wall repositioned the studs and built a custom movie poster closet that extended into the garage out of oak with black water based stain and acrylic top coat; finished off the wall in bead board pine with a rosewood finish. Added some recessed lighting for some of my favorite items. The shelves are all adjustable; I need to build about 4 or 5 more for the one sheets (flat). The 1st slimmer shelving unit will be used for folded posters; I refuse to collect lobbies or photos.... but who knows. The remaining 4 slimmer cases is for my massive vinyl collection and maybe some books... It took me 4 months and an electricity how to book but it is done... I was thinking about adding a door to the one sheet unit to keep out light and actually be able to lock it up; thoughts?

(http://www.chubbycharlies.com/posters/Storage12.jpg)

(http://www.chubbycharlies.com/posters/Storage22.jpg)
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Silhouette on February 17, 2012, 03:47:17 PM: Just came across this on eBay - I think it's a stunner

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280828277087&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:AU:1123
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: jayn_j on February 17, 2012, 04:52:05 PM: Quote from: Silhouette on February 17, 2012, 03:47:17 PM
Just came across this on eBay - I think it's a stunner

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280828277087&ssPageName=ADME:X:RTQ:AU:1123

That is a pretty cabinet. No idea on current exchange rates, but beyond my cheapskate means.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Juli on February 17, 2012, 04:53:43 PM: I am very curious and I am asking anyone who wishes to answer. In the area(s) where you store your posters, is it climate controlled as in has air conditioning and heating?

Thanks

~ Juli
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: tstatum on February 17, 2012, 06:02:48 PM: Yes but only because my basement was already climate controlled. Of course I'm not a person who worries to much about my poster. They are in a flat file laying right on top of each other no separation. I love my poster and hope nothing happens to them but any money spent on extra protection is less money spent on posters.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: erik1925 on March 05, 2017, 08:21:30 PM: Quote from: Neo on February 12, 2011, 03:17:01 PM
It is shocking to me that you don't display more of that beautiful eye candy. You could probably fit a hundred or so posters on your walls, which would leave enough room in your file cabinets for maybe an entire month or two of new purchases. 8)

Here is my humble file cabinet and I have a few rolled in the utility closet that wouldn't fit in the flat file and/or I didn't want to contaminate the ones in the flat file.
(http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx303/NeoLoco80/1056.jpg)

Sharp looking cabinet there, Brandon. cool1

In the years since, has this flat file gained a mate? Or is there still some room left in this one?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Neo on March 11, 2017, 05:07:43 PM: Thanks. Yeah, I liked the style. It was nice having the recessed handles, and the drawers had kind of a pocket in the last 10 inches or so which prevented stuff from getting pushed over the top of the back of the drawers.

I actually moved into a place with about half the square footage. A lot of stuff had to go, that cabinet included. It would have cost more to keep in storage than to just buy another, even a brand new one, after a few years.

It's part of the reason I cut down on my humble collection/collecting. Now I can relate to a lot of Japanese folks, who prefer the B2 and chirashi compared to B1 and larger fornats, due to limited space.
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: erik1925 on March 11, 2017, 05:23:06 PM: Sorry to hear that it had to go. But I understand, if space was an issue. Did a fellow poster collector get it from you?

In any case, it was a sharp looking setup.

How much of your collection have you trimmed away?
Title: Re: How do you organize your collection?
Post by: Neo on March 11, 2017, 08:18:37 PM: Quote from: erik1925 on March 11, 2017, 05:23:06 PM
Sorry to hear that it had to go. But I understand, if space was an issue. Did a fellow poster collector get it from you?

In any case, it was a sharp looking setup.

How much of your collection have you trimmed away?

It went to a woman who does paintings.

Probably about half.

Flat file cabinets are definitely the way to go. They're the best, for various reasons, especially sorting through everything, and when showing visitors the collection, it's like being like a museum curator. 8)