I brought this up in another thread, but seeing as further discussion could hijack that thread, I'm starting a new one. 

As I noted in the other thread, my father had a huge entertainment console that he bought around 1970, $1200 Motorola Quasar "works in a drawer" absolute lemon of a TV set, we eventually removed the TV portion and junked it (sadly, for workmanship reasons and not spiritual ones!), and were left with this behemoth that we always kept "just because".  The radio and turntable don't work either, and the speakers are trash.  But it is still a fine piece of furniture, I have it 50 years later, and it would make an excellent home altar!  I'd have to retro-fit it, add a riser on top, but it'd be both very dignified, and a fitting memorial to my father, who deeply disliked the "Newchurch" and was, for all intents and purposes, a sedevacantist. 

Has anyone else thought of something like this?

It looks something like this, has sliding doors, speakers where the shelves are in this picture:



BTW, it's not for sale.  We had never had a color TV set (aside from an ill-fated piece of junk we bought from my cousin, and the two "colors" were red and green!) and my father wanted us to have this, after he sold the small home we lived in the first seven years of my life.  The dealer refused to stand behind it, so we were stuck with this massive piece of furniture.

Yes - All you have to do is load that bad boy up with candles, incense, statues, icons, and a crucifix! You'll love it!

Great idea!  May you find a holy priest to offer Mass thereon. 

You could do that easily, this is what I was able to do with the top of my bookshelf

The bookshelf to which I was referring, is very tall (almost six feet), with stacked shelves and glass doors that can be raised and slid back into the shelf.  It wouldn't be suitable for Mass, and also, it is entirely too small (about 3' wide and 1' deep).

I have built more bookshelves such as you have here, than I can recall (Sauder and similar brands).  I am repurposing one of the walk-in closets at my parents' house (where I am now living, and shall be living indefinitely) as a mini-library

Ah, yes, I wasn't quite referring to having Mass said on it. More or less just as a holy space for prayer

Got it.  Your prayer space looks very similar to mine.

My son has pretty much commandeered my "mancave" (where the prayer corner is) for a gaming room, so I am looking to reorganize the corner at the house where I now stay much of the time, atop a chest of drawers.  

My father and I also made a "monstrance" with --- get this --- one of those rubber-stamp-holders that you see in older offices, has those long serrated arms that hold the rubber stamps, and it dawned on me one day, you could repurpose one of these into something resembling a monstrance, with long bolts screwed together for the vertical part.  I scavenged this from junk they were throwing away at my office.  Then I took a small silver ashtray, glued a magnet to the back of it, took a round Sacred Heart plaque I had, and... well, I'll take a picture, you'll see.

I don't really have a home altar, because I have a separate building with a "real" altar built for the purpose. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have the separate building.

If I wasn't me, what part of me would still be "me"? Wouldn't all bets be off, if I ceased to be "me"?

The real "me" prioritized having a home chapel above many other things I would have liked (storage, workshop, garage, bedrooms, etc.) -- and part of me wishes we could grow our chapel to the point it could move off our property. I would love the chore of repurposing 1,000 SF out of that 1,200 SF building into something else. But I have to prioritize the Faith; I don't consider that I really have a choice. 

I guess I want to re-create my seminary experience as much as possible -- which had a chapel on the grounds, as well as a library. I wish I had a more dedicated library space.

As for inside our house, we do have our fireplace mantle dedicated to religious items only. A big picture of the Sacred Heart/Christ the King, and several statues.

This was my parent's old hall/couch table that they used to have plants on.  It's great in the bedroom as a prayer table because it's only 15 inches deep so doesn't take up much space.