Our TV, after years of service, rolled over, emitted a puff of smoke, and croaked before our eyes. This led to purchasing a new TV and, honoring the American tradition that bigger is better no matter what the subject or circumstance, we decided to buy a TV that would not fit into our current entertainment unit. So, being ridiculously handy to have around at times, I decided to alter our current unit from TV holder to TV stand.
After removing the front doors, taking out the drawers, and dragging the whole thing into the garage, this is what I started with:
The next step involved sawing that sucker in half using my trusty jigsaw.
Then I took the top half, flipped it over and beat the sides out of it using a rubber mallet, leaving me an upside table of sorts.
I followed that up with cutting the remaining crap off with a hacksaw, leaving me with a few scattered pieces of wood.
Having successfully extracted the very top from the rest of the top half, I slapped it on to the bottom half and secured it using some hinges from the now useless front doors. This stroke of absolute genius later allowed me to easily connect all of the wires to the various electronic components.
Only a few short hours after starting the project, I added some finishing touches, loaded it up with stuff and VIOLA!!! The shortening of my entertainment unit. Hehe, that sounds dirty.
Let me start with a bit of background information. There was a hole in a wall in my house. Yes, I put it there. And yes, it was on purpose. Sure, I had no idea how I would fix it once it was there, but I forged ahead anyway, hoping that things would just magically work out in the end. Turns out I didn’t need magic, just awesomeness, of which I have plenty.
Thanks to the Economic Stimulus Package so kindly given to us in order to distract us from…. well, I won’t go into that, but I did use the money to buy a king size bed, and not just any bed, but one of those memory foam suckers. After putting it in place, I realized our old headboard was woefully inadequate, so I built a new one out of stuff I had lying around the house.
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