Okay so for a while now I've wanted a new entertainment center. We bought our old one off of friends 11 years ago for $50. I was tired of it and so we pulled it outside for our yard sale two weeks ago. It didn't sale. We put it on Craigslist. Still, a no go. Meanwhile, I was getting extremely annoyed with having the tv in my room - which translated to the kids begging to be in my room all day. The entertainment center also used to house our kids' computer and the printer as well as the stereo, dvd/vcr and all of the movies. It was all in my room waiting for a replacement piece of furniture. I suppose I'm not patient enough. Or I just love a project. Anyway, my honey humored me last Saturday. It took all day but we took it apart, sanded the sparse shine off of it, ditched the glass doors, painted it, bought new hardware and...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Okay so for a while now I've wanted a new entertainment center. We bought our old one off of friends 11 years ago for $50. I was tired of it and so we pulled it outside for our yard sale two weeks ago. It didn't sale. We put it on Craigslist. Still, a no go. Meanwhile, I was getting extremely annoyed with having the tv in my room - which translated to the kids begging to be in my room all day. The entertainment center also used to house our kids' computer and the printer as well as the stereo, dvd/vcr and all of the movies. It was all in my room waiting for a replacement piece of furniture. I suppose I'm not patient enough. Or I just love a project. Anyway, my honey humored me last Saturday. It took all day but we took it apart, sanded the sparse shine off of it, ditched the glass doors, painted it, bought new hardware and...
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