Prior to this, our DVDs were all somewhat organized in a closet in the guest room. Two problems with that arrangement: One, the room was filled with crap and hard to maneuver through and didn't even have a reachable light plugged in so I never wanted to go in there to look for a DVD... And two, that room is supposed to become baby's room. Lucky for us, we had one entire wall in our living room that was blank. We found an DVD cabinet from Sauder that would hold the huge number of DVDs that we own. Thankfully, my husband put it together... it did not look like fun. Part two this week is our TV cabinet. It has no holes in the back so all of the cords for whatever we store in there have to run out the front. In addition, we recently got a new TV and some things previously stored on top of the cabinet no longer fit, so more rearrangement was needed. I wanted to be able to run cords out the back of the unit, and also, not see cords everywhere. I also wanted to be able to know where each cord plugged into the power strip belonged so we weren't unplugging four different devices to find the right one.
After putting together the DVD cabinet, we thought the rest of the project would be easy. We had an attachment for our drill that is used to make holes for door locks and knobs. We have a very weak drill and a very thick backed TV cabinet. It took a LONG time (several days, actually) of drilling, recharging the drill, drilling, recharging the dill. Lather, rinse, repeat. Finally tonight we finished! Some of the excess of the cords were able to be coilled up inside the cabinet. We were able to place the power strip next to the cabinet and each cord has a bread tag on it indicating to what device it belongs. We still need to untangle a few cords after moving the power strip into place, but overall, it is much cleaner and much more accessible! YAY! Week five... complete!
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