Where's a good Stud when you need one?

My latest adventure in wooden things was to take a gift box and turn it into a holder for some of my woodworking DVD's. I hate to throw stuff out and when I got the chance to rescue the box from the garbage I took it. It's been sitting around for a while and I've been looking at it wondering what I could do with it. Yesterday, when I was supposed to be tidying up my study, I noticed the large, precarious pile of DVD's on top of a shelf. No further tidying got done.

My intention was to mount the box to the wall beside my computer desk. I got the handy dandy stud finder from downstairs and proceeded to run it slowly over the wall. It beeped and the lights went on; however each time I made a pass the studs seemed to have moved. I finally gave up figuring it was the metallic wall paper that was causing the problem.

Richard came in and used the stud finder on the other side of the wall and then measured the distance from the door opening. You'd think that would have worked. Nope. I carefully transferred the measurements and drilled an exploratory hole. Wallboard. I went back to the tap, tap, tap method to try to verify the placement and drilled another (small) hole. More wallboard. Now, I know that, theoretically, the studs are on 16" centers. Third time lucky? Not so much.

I decided to attach the box to the side of the computer desk where I didn't have to worry about studs or the lack of them. I'm so glad that when we build our shop we will have plywood rather than sheet rock on the walls. We'll be able to hang anything anywhere we want and that's how I like it. I never did care much for studs anyway.