Well as any parent knows children have a lot of toys and pretty much take over every room in the house. Children also have fixation with pushing any button they see. So with that in mind I had to get creative. So one day while on break from work I walked next door to home depot (a bad and expensive place for me to work next door to) I walked by the discarded wood pile that is all 70% off like I normally do. Well to my surprise they had 20 10ft 1x12's sitting there. Some had dings and minor splits but I jumped on it and scored them all for $125.00. So when I found the time I started with building my bookcases with built in toy boxes then tore down that crappy old mantle that was up over the fireplace and got to work on a new one. We are mounting the TV over the fire place so I had to get creative and figure out (here comes my geeky side) where I was going to put my fairly large center channel speaker for my surround sound. well as you can see I just decided to build around it. I think it came out pretty cool and my little girl loves her toy boxes. I'm also happy I can now raise all my electronics out of the reach of curious little fingers.
