Project - Jeff's House

[Jeff]

The entertainment center is finally done! WHEW! Now all I have to do is paint it. Its pretty sweet considering what it could have looked like. I also got some pics for you fools. I'm going to do before and afters from the front door in showing what all has been done downstairs. The upstairs has almost been ignored at this point.

The original front door.


New door with storm door, fresh paint, and new lock/deadbolt



In that original door pic you can see the ugly gold contractor grade lights... the new lights (I replaced 6 of these)


Kitchen when I moved in...


Now... (Should have taken a wider angle...shows the floor more then anything)


New fan and light over table (fan is RF from my harmony remote)




And last but not least...THE entertainment center. If you recall the fireplace was originally designed to have a TV over it. An old style CRT. Well I have a 52in Samsung LCD...which needs to be on the freakin wall. So I decided to put all the equipment over the fireplace and hide it all. There is a 2in piece of conduit run to the basement to run the wires. I got a Harmony 890 RF remote to control it all behind the wall.

Original Living room



Stage 1- Shelving and wire management. There is a cutout in the back of each shelf to run all the wires, the MDF shelf is for the Onkyo 606 receiver. The others are for the PS3, Dell 1505, Sony VCR, and Direct TV box.




Stage 2 - The face

The wall is made of 3/4in MDF. It is framed with 2X2 pine and the door is a 24X36in frame from Micheal's. We recessed Euro hinges into the frame and put magnets on the other side to hold it closed. The molding along the bottom conceals about 10 routed out air vents to help circulate the cabinet to keep the machines cool. The wall stops about 3in from the ceiling.









Well, there it is. The work so far on the downstairs. The fridge and washer/dryer come today sometime. Madden if you are reading this that is where that painting would go if you can find time to do it. Thanks for looking guys, suggestions and comments appreciated!