Fun with adjustable shelves and chipboard in House Flipper 2. This is a custom shrine I've made in my most-current build, and I'll include some step-by-step screenshots below. I'm trying to get Kota as a buyer, and had intended to build him a shrine somewhere in the house... only to totally forget until it was basically way too late to try and add it to the building structure via bricks. Welp! Time to get creative.
Firstly, I used the adjustable square shelves to make the main shape and base. The bottom of the square shelf used for the base is clipped just far enough into the floor to be completely hidden:
As you can see in my example, if you have any wall structure at all behind the planned shrine, you can hide lights that are thick enough to stick through chipboard, then clip the chipboard through them afterwards to make the back panel. Keep at least one tiny chunk of air-space between the lights and the edge of the shrine cabinet or the light will shine right through the whole thing.
The horizontal adjustable shelf below the lights is for more lights, because I wanted to experiment and see if I could get a more interesting vibe while still keeping the lighting soft. The shelf only extends about half-way back into the cabinet, so that whatever I stuck on the shelves would throw their light into the shrine that direction.
Unfortunately, wall lights don't stick to shelves and a lot of the table light choices are too big, but pandas fit and I stuck with them:
I placed their butts towards the opening behind them, because the star they hold throws a star-shaped shadow and I didn't want that messing up the lighting. They are literally right on the back edge of the shelf as far as they would place, and I had to adjust them left/right a few times because the grid on the shelf didn't match the room grid. I wired everything to a switch on the right-hand wall-post behind the shrine.
Time to hide all that with another piece of chipboard for the front panel, and recolor the whole thing:
I used matte plastic of the same exact shade to nullify clipping textures. This method will work for matte plastic and shiny plastic, so long as you keep everything the same version of plastic and color. It will not work for anything like patterned textures or wood tones due to clipping textures being very visible unless you carefully line up edges, and then you are going to have barely-visible seams... it might work if you don't mind those but you may also problems lining up the pieces perfectly and not having little bits of air-space.
Experimenting with goodies in the shrine:
The Noren canvasses that hang from the ceiling will happily clip into the shrine, which is great since nothing will hang on the chipboard. The shoji windows I have behind my shrine help make the chains coming down a lot less obvious too. It won't hang from the bottom of a shelf, but it would definitely hang from bricks hidden in the top part of the cabinet.
And there we have it. For a project like this, you want any surface that is going to have things on it be either version of the adjustable shelves, because chipboard will not allow you to place items on it. I actually use this method to make a lot of custom cabinetry, desks, etc, and you can fuse things like desks, dressers, nightstands, sinks, and all kinds of stuff into more unique furnishings using these techniques.
