We recently purchased a new 60' TV, blu-ray player and a whole slew of surround sound speakers. You can guess who was making these purchases. ; ) As it turns out, the media console we had was the perfect size for our 36' TV and had just enough room for our DVD player and Dish receiver. The new TV looked ridiculous on the media console we had! Plus we had a stack of new receivers and other components that went along with the new stuff we got. We needed new furniture!
Here's the problem with new furniture. I love, love, love Pottery Barn & Restoration Hardware furniture. I would buy the entire catalog if I could. What I don't love and what hubby especially doesn't love are their prices. Thus... the problem.
A few months ago, I turned him onto this awesome website -- http://ana-white.com/. She has amazing plans for DIY furniture. There are plans for all types of furniture! And a lot of it is Pottery Barn style knock-off furniture. Jackpot! After browsing her site for a while, he came across a media console that she had built but alas... it was one of the few that did not include instructions! Do you think a man would let this deter him? Of course not! So Michael spent a few days constructing his own blueprint of sorts, determining the type of wood he would need, how much, the various cut lengths, etc, etc. And then he went to work. Just for context, his parents live just around the corner from us and they have a full on shop that consists of about anything you need to build just about any piece of furniture. Without that, we would have ended up at Pottery Barn!
I don't have all of his blueprints and dimensions on hand so I don't have any specifics but I know he has them around somewhere!
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| The initial framework. |
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| It has sides and bottoms! |
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| Putting the top on. |
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| Here it is in our garage, just waiting to be painted! |
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| We sprayed the edges and a few other parts with brown spray paint first so it would show through dark when we distressed it. (And yes, I'm painting in pj pants... Don't judge!) |
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| Two coats of paint, distressing with sandpaper, polyurethane sealer and it's done! The hardware is from Lowe's and the paint color used is Olympic Off White. |
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| Up-close of the distressing Michael did. I will give him all the credit for that. I wasn't even home when he did it! |
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| With the new TV and components! He made the shelves to fit the correct height of all our components. |
Now what he doesn't realize is the list of other projects I have in store for him now that I know his furniture building abilities! : )
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