Category Archives: Living Room

Making your zapper zap through walls

You may know of our Printmakers media cabinet build. We love our cabinet. But there was one major design flaw (well not so much a flaw, more of a drawback). If we wanted to watch TV or control the volume on anything in the cabinet we needed to...

Electronics, Living Room, Organization, Reviews

November 12, 2013

El Granto

electronics, infrared, IR repeater, printmakers media cabinet, review

Printmakers Media Cabinet – The Reveal

Its been six weekends of hard work, but we finally reached the final stretch of the printmakers media cabinet project. This is where we left off. The cabinet was built and sanded and ready for finishing. If you missed it, check out part one, two, Read More

Cool Projects, DIY, DIY Versions of Brand Name Stuff, Feature Post, Living Room, Woodworking

May 6, 2013

Kristen

cabinet, living room, printmakers media cabinet, restoration hardware, woodworking

Media Cabinet – The Final Steps

I feel like we've been working on the media cabinet forever (check out part one, two, three, and four). The whole being a grown up and having to work 40 hours a week really...

DIY, Living Room, Woodworking

April 29, 2013

Kristen

drawers, media cabinet, woodworking

Drawers

Cabinet drawers, not underpants. Get your head out of the gutter. A big part of our Printmakers Media Cabinet project is the 6 storage drawers to hold remotes, and our DVD's & video games. The cabinet has three shallow drawers at the top (for the remotes), and then three...

Living Room, Woodworking

April 24, 2013

Kristen

media cabinet, woodworking

Media Cabinet – Odds & Ends

The Printmakers media cabinet project is coming along (if you've missed it, check out part one, two and three) We checked a few things off the list last weekend. First up, we headed down to Read More

Living Room, Woodworking

April 18, 2013

Kristen

media cabinet, stain, woodworking

Hardware Shopping

To me, hardware on cabinets is like jewelry. The finishing touch, a hint of sparkle, a bit of shine. Shopping for hardware is like buying the final accessories to go with a fab outfit. So, I am very excited that we're at a point where we need some hardware for the Read More

Living Room

April 9, 2013

Kristen

hardware, media cabinet, shopping

Media Cabinet – Phase 3

Slowly but surely our media cabinet is coming along. As El Granto and I have big kid 9-5's we really only get to work on projects on the weekends. When we left off, we had attached the front and back frame together and it was looking like this. Read More

DIY, Living Room, Woodworking

April 8, 2013

Kristen

livingroom, media cabinet, woodworking

Framed!

How was your Easter/Passover weekend? We enjoyed some well deserved good weather, which meant many a good dog walk as well as a lovely Easter dinner and ruckus Yahtzee game with the family. We also used the long weekend to get a bit more work done on our media...

Cool Projects, Living Room, Woodworking

April 1, 2013

Kristen

cabinet, media cabinet

Printmakers Cabinet – Frame Supplies

It's starting to get warmer out again. Do you know what that means? It's finally warm enough to stand out in our unheated garage for more than 30 seconds, and be able to operate saws and equipment without mittens. Yep kids, that means it's project time. I have had my eye on a new media cabinet...

Living Room, Video, Woodworking

March 26, 2013

Kristen

kreg, media cabinet, pine, restoration hardware, woodworking

Ikea Hack – Vittsjo Laptop Table

I was wandering through Ikea the other day, when I ended up in the office section. I didn't need anything for the office (much less furniture!) but I browsed none the less. Out of nowhere, I spied this little table. (more…)...

Cool Projects, DIY, DIY Versions of Brand Name Stuff, Living Room

March 18, 2013

Kristen

ikea, Ikea Hack, side table, vittsjo

Category Archives: Living Room

Making your zapper zap through walls

Printmakers Media Cabinet – The Reveal

Media Cabinet – The Final Steps

Drawers

Media Cabinet – Odds & Ends

Hardware Shopping

Media Cabinet – Phase 3

Framed!

Printmakers Cabinet – Frame Supplies

Ikea Hack – Vittsjo Laptop Table

Categories

Keywords