Metolius has some excellent guides for adding climbing walls and such to a home. Will I ever build such a thing? In my dreams, mabye. But it will be really nice if I can pull it off in our new home.
For additional info, indoorclimbing.com has a great site: Build a climbing wall and build a campus board (which has some nice info on how protective well various substances such as bark and pea gravel protects you).
Iola Design: Bamboo Cabinets and Shelves TreeHugger
Cleaning up the hard drive and ran across the picture on this page. Nice looking room, especially with the shelving running around the furniture providing a place to organize and store items but freeing up the central space.
I’m so-so on the shelves. Not certain I could make something like that easily. I guess once you had the shell you could drill and screw directly into the back of the shelf boards to secure it in place. I still think there would be a problem with warping without using a metal support on the back.