Since we moved, we have been using a little glass printer table for a TV stand. It wasn't big enough, there wasn't a place for the remotes and it was kind of short. Oh, and George was able to climb on and off the lower shelf and push buttons. Joe came to me a few weeks ago and said he wanted to make some changes to our old TV cabinet, pictured here, in our old house:
It is three individual pieces that you push up against each other, but are not joined. He told me he wanted to take the middle piece and cut off the top, so that it would be a TV stand with a cabinet and drawer but not quite the big towering thing it was before. I admit, I was dubious. I didn't see how it wasn't going to look like he lopped off the top.
Well, he totally did it. He ended up using on the side pieces to form the top and he took the piece from the top front (which was above the glass cabinet), to form the front above the drawer. Painted it black and now we have this:
Which is decidedly better than the old glass stand. And fits with the room better than it did when it was a huge hutch. The gadgets can go in the cabinet and the remotes in the drawer, away from little fingers. It is perfect. Thanks, J, you did a great job. Sorry for being dubious :)
9 comments:
oh wow!! i really love it! go joe - what an amazing gift of vision that man has, not everyone could look at the original furniture and see something so different.
ps - i LOVE your pictures on the side of your blog page. i can't believe it's been 10 years since that beautiful wedding. it remains one of the most beautiful weddings i have ever attended and i am so thankful for FB and blogs to be able to keep up with you as your family grows and changes. you guys are doing great!
That's amazing! It looks wonderful!
good work mr. joe. it looks really good. you guys are painting fools up there!
so what's left of the sides?
Impressive!
The actual side pieces are still intact. We used the sides of the middle piece to complete the top...if that makes sense.
wow, now THAT is impressive work there Joe. I often have the vision for these types of things but neither the know-how, the tools nor the time to get past the vision part. I see how you used parts of the sides..but what about the rest of it? Do you have extra shelving now?
Sorry, no. He didn't use the parts of the sides. The two side shelves are completely intact and actually in our guest room currently. He used part of what he had chopped off the side of the middle piece of furniture. Does that make sense?
thanks for the clarification erin and joe. clever use of the extra wood-tim was impressed with the final product.
you have me looking at my shelves differently, thinking if maybe somehow they can actually stay as part of my final family room vision.
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