A work in progress

For Christmas this year, we got a new TV.  A flat one.  You know...the only kind they make anymore.  We have always had an old TV, it was a hand-me-down from a friend to replace my former, and even older, TV.  It never really bothered me, we don't even watch that much TV.  My husband, however, has been secretly longing for a real TV.  For Christmas this year, he got a TV.

But, I couldn't bring myself to set up a beautiful new TV on our old, dumpy, Wal-mart entertainment center.  I've been searching around online trying to find one that I love.  And I did...from Pottery Barn.  I love it!  Guess how much it is?  $999.  Yep...way out of my price range.  We don't even have a price range because we don't have any extra money.

Lucky for me, I have a husband who can fix our build anything.  He doesn't have very much experience in furniture building, but he did have $150 in Home Depot gift cards :)  He got the measurements off of the website, drew a plan, and then got to work.

Here's how it looks so far:

The inspiration:

(via Pottery Barn)

Like I said before, my husband is very good at building and fixing.  His one minor flaw is that he is really slow...I don't mean that in a mean way...it's just his personality.  For example, when we had to re-do the floors in our dining room, he offered to do it himself!  Awesome, since we wouldn't have been able to afford it otherwise.  It took over 6 months!

To speed the process along, I thought of a deal.  I told him that I didn't think we should open the new TV and set it up until we had a new cabinet to put it on.  :)  LOL.  He said ok, and our goal is to have it all set up by Superbowl Sunday!

I'll keep you posted on the progress...

Wish us luck!