Sunday, December 06, 2009

Ringing the changes

'Der room' has become a bit of a tip of late. I think this is a genetic thing as its a trait my brother and I share, though he has most of it, and the lady of the house is a tidy freak (still, she did choose me, and she can't claim she didn't know what I was like before we got married).


A plan was hatched last week that involved some low cunning. After the lady of the house had had one too many beers at the work Christmas do I sprung my trap.

'can I buy some more shelves like I was talking about last week?'
'Ok, just put them on Visa'

Wooo Hoooo.

So, after two trip's to warehouse stationary (the first was where I almost got to the buying point, then realised I had come into town on the bike rather than in the car...) I had two of the 9 cube bookshelves. Assembly proved no problems although I was disappointed about not being able to use a soldering iron for any of it.

Now I have some place to put all of the various treasures/trash, and it just happens to be the right height for a test track.
(the shelves are on special at the moment from warehouse stationary $120, and the stool was from the warehouse for $50)

10 comments:

Kiwibonds said...

Now that's cool. Storage and baseboards in one

Andrew Hamblyn said...

Exactly what I thought.

Will work well in the man-cave...

We dont have a Wharehouse Stationary in town tho...

How deep is the unit front to back please?

Drew

Motorised Dandruff said...

39cm deep, 120cm wide and high.

On thinking about it the 12 cube shelf is 158cm high but could be laid on its side for a better fit in a smaller room

Amateur Fettler said...

Just measuring the 8 cube unit in our living room, if it is laid on its side it is 830 high and roughly 300 deep

lalover said...

Tip? what do you mean? I thought that was normal for the hideout!

manaia said...

I bet the wife is happy to see the floor again a!

ECMT said...

What is it with those curtains ? No self respecting man-cave has curtains like that (do they ??? ).

Motorised Dandruff said...

A self respecting man cave in a rented house takes what it can get.

mumdruff said...

What do you mean - inherited !!! We have your birth certificate, you definitely belong to us! I was there !!! !!I don't represent that remark about untidiness and your father's garage is almost immaculate.Perhaps you inherited it from your grand parents !!!!
We also have a Warehouse Stationery cube.It's a family thing !!

Motorised Dandruff said...

It's a well known scientific fact that genetic traits often skip a generation. See, all that education hasn't been wasted (yet)