My girlfriend's room

2014-10-06 1 min read

This was my project for my vacation week.

Library and desk

I built shelves for my girlfriend’s office room. I used heavy-duty steel shelving hardware from Lee Valley. Using the whole wall for made-to-measure shelving doubled the storage volume compared to our old IKEA EXPEDIT 5×5 cubes TV unit. Shelves are 12” deep, 8’ wide.

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The antenna in front of the curtains points outside and we get 4 OTA TV channels this way. We cancelled cable TV.

Multimedia cabinet

I converted the wardrobe into a multimedia cabinet. The shelves hanging system is really just a simple 1×4 piece of wood on both sides with two 2” screws in the wall studs. L brackets prevent downwards bending of the 3 upper shelves. Three 2×4 sections are vertically aligned under the TV to hold the weight of all the devices and the TV.

Closed cabinet doors.
Opened cabinet doors showing a TV, game consoles, a DVD player, DVDs.
Closeup of the shelves hanging system.
Alexandre de Verteuil
Alexandre de Verteuil
Senior Solutions Architect

I teach people how to see the matrix metrics.
Monkeys and sunsets make me happy.