Fall projects in January

We've had record high temps for the last month. It's been above freezing every day for the last month. We're running 40 degrees warmer than January 2010. It's too hard to sit inside on days like these; the to-do list becons...

We've been looking for a Danish-design media storage cabinet to go under the big screen in the basement. All that JP has found are several thousand dollars. Ikea has exactly what we're looking for for $400, which is great, but it ships in 14 boxes and will cost an additional $350 to ship. That won't do. The nearest Ikea is up in the twin cities, seven hours away.



We hit The Home Depot last nite and purchased a sheet of 3/4" plywood (the nice sanded birch stuff), two 1/4-sheet pieces of 1/4" pretty plywood, and two 1/4-sheet pieces of 1/8" hardboard. I spent all day in the garage (with the door open!!) and cut, routed, trimmed, drilled, sawed, glued, etc. all day. We now have our Danish-design media cabinet. When the weather warms up enough to paint, we'll finish it up. Until then, we now have a place to stash all the xbox games in the basement.