Isn't she pretty? We were using a folding table for a TV stand so this is a vast improvement! Wait a minute, please don't tell me that you think we really spent $700 on a TV stand? Ok, we didn't but is sure looks like we did.
On Saturday, Fly Boy wakes up and decides that he is ready to make something. We went to the base to check out the wood shop, errrrr, ummmm, well what we found was a rusted drill and some cobwebs so we are thinking they moved it? Any who, we venture on to Lowes with our TV Stand plans from www.ana-white.com and head to the lumber aisle and the adventure began. We got the wood (after several arguments) and decided to have the nice young men at Lowes cut it for us. This was good and bad. It was 25 cents a cut, no big deal but some of their cuts were off. So what we learned is have Lowes cut big pieces of wood like plywood that will not fit in the car and we will cut the rest!
So after a few more arguments (you'd have to understand how my dad feels about wood to have any insight into the arguments we had so I will spare you the details) we headed home, unloaded the car and Fly Boy started assembling.
The next day Fly Boy stained the TV Stand ANNNNNDDDDDDDDD.......drum roll please!
We have a TV stand!!! And I love it! If you love this as much as we do you can find the plans here! Fly Boy made a few discoveries in his adventure: A) We did not see where the 1x12@6ft went so we returned it and B) It seems that the 2 1x2@8ft is listed twice in the lumber list.
So I hope you have enjoyed and have been inspired by the 100th post of Sweet Successes and yes we are going to make more furniture for the living room!!!
PS- Lowes had a military discount and the nice young lady at the register gave us a $10 off coupon so this lovely piece of furniture cost a whopping $80, not $700.
It looks AWESOME! This is what we're building next, I think :)
ReplyDeleteIf you do let me know if you noticed the extra wood listed.
ReplyDeleteIt kinda reminds me of the coffee table that Papa made! :-)
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