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Wife- / Living-Room-Friendly Cocktail Cab
piecesof8:
Cool idea, but that might be straying a little farther away from that classic cocktail look than I want to go... Hmm, something else to think about.
drventure:
--- Quote from: piecesof8 on June 02, 2010, 10:02:54 pm ---Cool idea, but that might be straying a little farther away from that classic cocktail look than I want to go... Hmm, something else to think about.
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I'm just thinking more of "blending in more with your other furniture" that "looking like and arcade machine"...
My cab's way over the top in that area, so my view is admittedly a little warped. ;)
I guess what I'm imagining is a cocktail cab, positioned in kind of a corner of the room, with a couple chairs around it, and maybe a lamp or two, like a small seating area. To that end, when I walk into the room, I'd rather at first glance see a nice sitting area around a smoked glass table, and only later realize that it's something much more 8)
BTW I do like the proportions of that kit. Looks really good!
gryhnd:
--- Quote from: drventure on June 02, 2010, 11:07:55 pm ---I'm just thinking more of "blending in more with your other furniture" that "looking like and arcade machine"...
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That's how I got it past my wife too ::)
(I really need a better name for it though)
piecesof8:
You two are way outta my league. ;D
piecesof8:
Not much progress this weekend (too many other things going on), but I did get started on my monitor mount.
I took a spare piece of plywood and clamped the plate from the back of the monitor to it as a guide for my drill:
And ta-da! A wooden VESA mount. Thrilling, I know.
I placed the monitor into its routed recess on the top panel with my new mount in place to measure the gap between the mount and the surface of the top panel. Then I cut some strips of scrap plywood and glued them up to the right size:
The plan is to glue-n-screw one of these spacers to the underside of the top panel on either side of the monitor recess, and then use wood screws to attach my monitor mount to the spacers. I'm totally making this up as I go along... Do the experts think this sounds like a sturdy mount to hold an LCD in place on the underside of the top panel?