The Cupboard Conversion
In a bid to create some more space in the attic Mrs-MaFt had this crazy mental idea to convert a cupboard on the landing into a computer area. I had this crazy mental idea to agree and actually pull it off!
First task was to get everything out of there - a set of drawers and a bunch of coats and other random crap. I did find my Voice Of The Mysterons badge though! And once that was done I got measuring - ya know, to make sure it was feasible and so that I didn't have any nasty surprises later on...
Phase 1.5 was to drill a few holes and stick some cables in fr the power. Phase 2 was to stick up a load of brackets for the shelves to sit on:
Just look at the lovely aqua coloured walls...
To cut the shelves I hired a magical saw that cut them itself without any kind of human intervention. As you can see from the photo below, I'm not telling porkies - you can clearly see that there are no hands assisting the saw.
The magical 'self-cutting' saw.
With the drawers cut to size and their perfect fit(!) confirmed I went about painting over the garish aqua with a nice, plain white.
White wash!
The next step was obviously to fit the shelves and then get those painted too. For the keyboard tray I just robbed the rollers from my old computer desk and used those - no point reinventing the wheel eh?
Shelves in place...
...and painted in matching white.
It was then time to move in. All was going well until I tried to put the monitor in... Erm... My measuring clearly wasn't up to scratch as it didn't fit... Neither did the 15inch monitor I swapped it for with Nephew-J... Damn, I'm going to have to buy a nice 19" Widescren TFT monitor. What a shame that will be :D For the meantime I'm using TightVNC to control my PC via the laptop. Works well too!
Anyway, here it is in all it's glory (sans monitor):
Ta-Da!
MaFt
First task was to get everything out of there - a set of drawers and a bunch of coats and other random crap. I did find my Voice Of The Mysterons badge though! And once that was done I got measuring - ya know, to make sure it was feasible and so that I didn't have any nasty surprises later on...
Phase 1.5 was to drill a few holes and stick some cables in fr the power. Phase 2 was to stick up a load of brackets for the shelves to sit on:
Just look at the lovely aqua coloured walls...
To cut the shelves I hired a magical saw that cut them itself without any kind of human intervention. As you can see from the photo below, I'm not telling porkies - you can clearly see that there are no hands assisting the saw.
The magical 'self-cutting' saw.
With the drawers cut to size and their perfect fit(!) confirmed I went about painting over the garish aqua with a nice, plain white.
White wash!
The next step was obviously to fit the shelves and then get those painted too. For the keyboard tray I just robbed the rollers from my old computer desk and used those - no point reinventing the wheel eh?
Shelves in place...
...and painted in matching white.
It was then time to move in. All was going well until I tried to put the monitor in... Erm... My measuring clearly wasn't up to scratch as it didn't fit... Neither did the 15inch monitor I swapped it for with Nephew-J... Damn, I'm going to have to buy a nice 19" Widescren TFT monitor. What a shame that will be :D For the meantime I'm using TightVNC to control my PC via the laptop. Works well too!
Anyway, here it is in all it's glory (sans monitor):
Ta-Da!
MaFt
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3 Comments:
Nice work...
Im chuffed that the presence of the Mysterons continues to be found in the Dark nooks and crannies of the universe :)
Did you find the magical wood-saw cuts better than a hack-saw?
no hack-saws were used in the making of this new cupboard. thanks for bringing that up AGAIN!!!
MaFt
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