We like to have a quiet holiday at home. Quiet except for power tools, the nail gun, etc. This year’s project was smaller scale than last year’s (we built the whole loft! Jeez, industrious). We aimed to build a console-type unit behind the couch, sacrificing 4.5″ inches of floor space to hide the ladder, a bunch of infrastructure, and add an outlet with USB plugs behind the couch. In a funny twist, even though we built in 8 outlets on the living room wall, the couch covered nearly all of them! So we got this handy little extension, bought one new board, and set to work. Besides the two new items and some $3 hinges, we had everything else we needed in the scrap pile or as leftovers from previous projects. Two cool catches we purchased for another project last year but never used were put into service, and they worked really well. One and Two.
We also (finally) added baseboards on all the white walls, so earrings can stop rolling under the walls. They really made the place look a good bit sharper too. FYI, mid-century style baseboard selections are fairly limited (either flat stock or something with a simple square bead profile), so we were stoked to find these in stock at the big box (though MDF is not a favorite material, everything else about it was right).
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The parts: almost all salvage & leftovers
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Where are the studs again? Marking it out.
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X-Mas craziness!
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A hiding spot for the loft ladder
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The shelf is in! With outlet.
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Used some old magnetic catches to make removable ladder door
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Sans couch, view of the ladder
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A panel now hides the router, cords, wink unit, etc.
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And even better when trim surround is in.
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And we added baseboards, at last.
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Tight corners look pretty decent!
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Meanwhile, outside…snow and temps hovering around zero all week.
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Snow humps outside the bathroom window.
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And dogs with cabin fever.
The punch list is getting shorter! But don’t worry, plenty left to do. And I still have some time off for break, so we’ll see what else we come up with.