An old CD rack might look outdated today, but with a little creativity and paint, it can become a stylish wall-mounted bookshelf perfect for small spaces.

For getting your laptop off the table and up at eye level, a $3 CD rack from IKEA cut and filed down in a few spots does the job admirably well, and even grants a little extra storage space. As clever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A typical CD storage rack tower - Thomas Nuehnen/Shutterstock Perhaps it's a trick of memory, but it seems like old media formats ...