I had my TV needs in place, however my wife needed her own space as well. couples who game together stay together as the saying goes. I was off to one of my many material caches about the yard to find all the suitable pieces I tend to collect up a great deal of scrap lumber from various sources and try to reuse it in many different ways. my ideology is to throw away as little usable material as possible. the cut offs that are too short will often be used as firewood and the sawdust used as mulch around the property. Any screws nails and other hardware are either reused or welded into small sculptures as inspiration strikes.
The behemoth of a TV stand I had build for myself was sufficient to hold all of our modern console games and dvd's . thus her TV stand would only need to hold her consoles and accessories. the secondary objective was to give our fur babies ample perches to look out the window and plot their vengeance on the trespassing birds and squrriels.
I started off with an initial design to give her a temporary place to hold everything she wanted there until I could come up with additional materials to go all out in the build
the second phase was increasing the height and size to give the cats plenty of space to do cat things. this meant adding a second tier to the unit, which also added a place for the heated cat bed our kitten has grown to love.the material list was the similar to the previous TV stand build with the exception of a table top from an old print shop, some plywood shipping crates and some 2x4 and 4x4 framing lumber.
the initial design was more or less just elevated to add a perch and then the print shop table was framed in using 4x4 legs, 2x4 braces and a larger shipping crate as a base. the upper tier was refined by adding another large shipping crate and two smaller shipping crates as storage.
Yet again it wasn't heirloom quality furnishings but it was a quick and dirty build that will last for a very long time while looking reasonably good. most of my projects go through phases where I will change something later down the road and make small improvements as time goes by. my theory has always been, If you need something, you make something. it doesn't have to look good the first time around as long as you are satisfied and can tell that your skill sets are improving each time that you build or improve something. that is how life should go though, masters didn't become masters sitting on their hands, they put in the work to hone their crafts until they knew enough to teach the next generation of people how to create great works.
