Saturday it rained, so we did a little rearranging of our family room to create more space. I served Easter dinner, which was a motivation for our kids to help us move that furniture.
We did have a huge rustic Baltic fir armoire, bought at an antique store in Lexington years ago, which served the purpose of our media cabinet. But it took up too much room. So we asked for help from our kitchen cabinet carpenter, who created some cabinet door frames for a three drawer gentlemen's dresser (the kind with the little glove drawers on top) on brass casters, probably from the 1920's or 30's, bought at a friend's garage sale. Hubby got aluminum gridwork, finished in a brass color, and inserted cut-outs from this metal, making a screen for each cabinet door, which not only allows air-flow for all the electronics, it also allows us to push our remote buttons with success. We have way more room to move around, and I am trying to decide whether or not to look for a love seat, or a nice lounge chair with ottoman. Either one will be my comfort zone while watching tv. The armoire sits in the sunroom now, awaiting its transformation into a garden center/tv enclosure for the exercise times.
One thing I did learn over the last few weeks--everyone wants to unload their entertainment armoires! When I first listed ours on Craigs List, there were only 18 others listed for sale. In a matter of two weeks time, the number grew to well over 240! Obviously everyone else was also sick of the big things taking up too much space in their houses. Hubby was actually talking about putting it on our brushpile when we burned it, but I talked him out of it, for the moment.
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