Need some advice.
So my wife and I are renovating a new townhouse and one of the rooms will be converted in a den/man cave/entertainment room. One wall will have built-in shelves specific for my hardcover comic collection / collectibles. We're not sure if we'll do more builtins to wrap around the room, but for now, we'll only convert one wall. It's not a huge room. Only 12 x 12. So we have to use space carefully. Here's the wall in question:
As you can see, there's a strange ledge along the wall. This is actually the foundation wall that juts in like this. It's kind of an eyesore, so that's why we're doing the builtins there, to cover it all up. The wall is 12 ft long, the ceiling is 8 ft high. The foundation / ledge sticks out about 6 inches. And from the ledge to the ceiling is about 33-35 inches.
So my initial plan was this: I would have a shelf about halfway up from the ledge to the ceiling, that way you have two rows of approx 15 or more inches for the large books. (eg: DC Absolutes, Dark Horse Library editions, Humanoids slipcase editions, etc.) From the ledge down, you'd have shelving for more traditional hardcovers. From the ledge down, the builtin shelves will be about 10-11 inches deep. But from the ledge to the ceiling, because it is already 6 inches deep, those shelves will be 16 inches deep if I try to make the builtin a straight line from the ceiling to the floor. So my question is this: do I do that, with the end result being those books up top will be pushed deep in and not aligned with the other books on the lower shelves, or do I put essentially a filler there, eating up the 6 inches and thus have all my book shelves be 10-11 inches deep and uniform? I'm sure it will look fine either way, but I just figured I'd get some feedback if possible. What would you guys do? I'm sorry if I'm not explaining it well. I can post some drawings if it is confusing to people.
We're doing a full gut of the entire townhouse, so the renovations should be done by end of May at the latest hopefully. Maybe sometime in June I'll have shelf porn to show off, heh.
Right now everything is in rubbermaid bins, so there's not much to show.