Ok, So you remember I said I was trying to get my wine/cabinet/entertainment shelf done? I had originally found a beautiful one with the glassed in door (see my previous posting about it), but when I started to try to refinish it, it was taking forever and alot of stripper just to get a small area started. Meanwhile my living room/dining room area keep sitting in boxes because I can't move forward with my plans.
Well I was out and about at my local Goodwill and OMG! I found the perfect entertainment center that I would not have to refinish. It was the right color for the wood in my home, it had the height I needed to compliment my tall ceilings, and clean lines. So I paid for it $37.99 and set about to find another friend up here in WP with a truck. (Poor Echo and her dad lugged the last one home for me while I was gone for the weekend) I found my friend down the street, Donna, and she could move it Friday night.
We get to the store and find out its about 5" to wide for her truck. They store clerk is telling me they can refund my money and put it back to the sale floor and if its still there when I get a bigger truck I can repurchase..... uh....NO. So I started looking at it, and found it could be unscrewed at one of the columns which would then make it big enough to fit. So we did this...the store manager wasn't very happy because it put her teenage worker over by 15minutes (but he wasn't complaining). Anyways... needless to say it took some maneuvering once I got to getting it put together the next day, but I finally got it all secured, it looks good as new and was sooooooo worth the wait. Here are the finished pix.
here you can see the full view, kinda.....I have got to get me a new camera.....Ok so in the middle on the top is all my shot glasses (well not all still have to find a few) and then my collection of the little single shot bottles. In the center of that I have a couple of my flasks.
The left side has all the alcohol, the second shelf is the mixer stuff, the third shelf is tea cups and ice cream serving dishes, 4th shelf is my Mikasa dishes (for company), have to find the others, and the bottom is cook books. Inside the cabinet are the MixMaster and the Ice Cream Maker...hidden away where no one can see...may put a shelf in and move them elsewhere....that will be later....after I have rested...lol
That's a better pix. You can see the height I needed to compliment my ceiling. On the right side is all the wine/beer/well drink, martini glasses etc. The 4th shelf has the ice bucket, and of course more cook books on the bottom. The top of the left tower is my Scottish Whiskey Tour (yep have renewed my pursuit since I am going in May and need to know what I am drinking), and the right is just some collectibles... I used the tall wine glass one year at Jer and Martina's New Years party, and I only had one drink.... THAT one... it was awesome all kinds of champagne, and fruit and who knows what else, but it holds a special place, and now it gets its own tower!) How do you like the beer keg wine bottle holder??? I also go that at the thrift store for about $24.99 and then it was 1/2 off cuz of the tag color....I LOVE Thrift stores!)
And finally this is the nice thin profile I get looking at it from the couch. (Yes, those are still Christmas decorations that are up... when you live by yourself...who cares?? No really couldn't get to them and had not cleared space in the garage for them yet, now my two 8' x 8' shelves are build and craft area set up, I can get to the boxes and have a place to put them!!)
Soooo. it was a pretty successful Sunday, and it feels so good to walk past and just admire it...finally.... what did you all do??
