Friday, January 14, 2011

Media Console

David and I take great pride in the fact that we can park our car in our garage.  We have a one car garage and we have managed to fit about a million things in there.  We have a large shelf unit that holds tools (hammers, screwdrivers, clamps, a router, and multiple saws), gardening stuff, biking accessories, canoeing accessories, and a few boxes of storage stuff.  We have 3 bikes, a lawn mower, a barbecue, and a deep freezer.  And still we usually park the car in there!
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However, from August to November we weren't parking the car in the garage.  Instead we were using the garage as a workshop to build a media console.  
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This media console is based on this one from Pottery Barn.  We used these plans from ana-white.com.
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We built our media console from scratch.  We bought lumber, nails, screws, and wood glue.  I learned how to use a bunch of the power tools that we have, and now we have a finished product that we are very proud of.
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In case you were wondering, no we did not go to the trouble of making 16 drawers.  Those are all fake drawer faces.  There's a big cabinet in the middle, and larger drawers on the sides.
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In case you are interested, below I've put some pictures from the construction of the media console.
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David using a drill to screw in a screw.
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Me using the drill.
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Oops!  We broke a drill bit!
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The "skeleton" of the cabinet.
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Oops!  They forgot to make this screw into a screw!

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