Look forward to seeing the finished project. BTW for I summer home I finished it off in rough cut cedar planks for rustic look.
Right now I hired a friend of a friend. Both of them are into audio as well. He did the work in the kitchen as well updating it to modern standard. He started today. Home depot is very late with my wood delivery.
Could be a good thing. I say that as when I recently had our deck replaced the contractor was directed to use a local lumberyard, a buddy. Well the contractor used Home Depot as they provide the contractors a 3% kicker. I happened to be home when the delivery truck arrived and watched as the driver began to unload it. There was not a straight board in the lot. I refused delivery. Followed up with a rather interesting conversation with the contractor.
Amazing the local lumberyard delivered quality wood, at the same price as HD. When I can I prefer to support local businesses.
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I don’t have a basement, but I do have substantial crawl space above the 2-car-plus garage; a fold-down ladder makes it easy to store, dry, the shipping cartons for all but the speakers… My current problem is whether to keep the huge–as in 4’-wide, 1-1/2’-high, and 8’-tall–‘coffins’ from my Sound Lab Majestic 745 speakers.
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Keep ‘em as when you pass them on to a new owner they will appreciate it.
I am keeping my similar sized speaker cartons for that very reason. Pure Audio Project Trio 15 Classic, 72”h x 38”w x 30”d. Also my SabrinaX cartons, 42”h x 26”w x 32”d, mol.
I’m down to only keeping my PS Audio boxes for my DMP, PWT and DSD DACs (2). This is amazing packaging, but I’m thinking of getting rid of them as. . . I don’t ever foresee selling these items.
The bathtub liner works okay to cover the four boxes for FR30. They at least provide some moisture protection. I have no bugs based on my previous speaker-box experience (8’x4’). I was able to store most gear and cable boxes inside. 
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Can you disassemble the crates and store them as a “flat pack” until needed?
Cant tell from the photo if they are screwed or nailed or if glue was used as well
Best,
-JP
That’s easy to say but NOT easy to do… The only ‘room’ I have is outside.
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Easy-peasy having three homes, one with both a full basement and a walk up attic. The downside is nothing gets tossed. Going through a significant downsizing now.
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I have mine stacked right next to the freezer I keep my wife in.
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Was she complaining about your speakers being too far out into the room?
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Today, after confirming that the mfr will sell me new boxes if needed (I doubt I ever will sell these components), two gigantic ones went to where unwanted cardboard boxes go.
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Do they have the word Wilson on them?
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Lonson,
I have read many thoughtful, helpful comments from you over the years in many of these forums. Now I offer you (and others) this thought: Keep the boxes.
I am 71. ALL of my elaborate audio system WILL be sold (unless it is junked, of course). NOT by me. When I am gone my wife may sell it. She may enjoy listening to it, but if it stops working just because a cable gets loose or tubes go bad, she is simply going to think it doesn’t work anymore, and she will get rid of it for something much simpler. Fussing with the intricacies of a hundred crisscrossing cables and equipment is not her or our heirs’ joy.
My wife is smart, a college graduate. She can figure out how to sell our art, antiques, furnishings, and my gold cufflinks, but audio equip? No matter how little it goes for, without the boxes it will sell for even less. Somebody is going to sell or junk it. The only unknown is how soon after I am gone.
Keep the boxes. And prepare a detailed list of the equipment, including its original cost and quick sale value. Unless you have other arrangements. That way your lovely wife (judging by your revised picture) or heirs will have a frame of reference. I keep my list with my final papers.
My thoughts. Feel free to ignore me. Good luck with your decision.
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JA, thanks for your thoughts. I have made arrangements with a considerably younger friend and a brother for my stuff. It’s all complicated by the fact that I have a large storage unit I’m renting as we live in a small expanded cottage in the woods and I have been “directed” to work on getting rid of the stuff in the unit and relinquishing the unit itself and that is the only place I could store the boxes. My particular PS Audio components are ear-marked for the brother should something happen to me. He won’t need the boxes as he lives just less than an hour away.
I wish I could keep these boxes and so much more. . . but my acts of attrition must continue!
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But, should something happen to you, and if the PS Audio components are ear-marked for your brother, AND should he choose to sell them sometime later… he’ll need the boxes.
Maybe you should give him the boxes now, and the equipment later when your estate is settled.
It’s just a thought.
He doesn’t want the boxes or have a place to store them.
Honestly, I have never been one to try to wring every last dollar out of a sale of an audio component, and I have successfully and satisfyingly sold many components without original boxes. I’m not sweating this, and when I’m gone. . . I’m gone.
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My house? 