Building an Entertainment Center

Last time we attempted building our own furniture we made some nice shelves.  We learned a lot from that project and hoped to put that knowledge and experience towards our future furniture building plans.  For our next piece of furniture we were going to create an entertainment center!  Until our house is done those shelves we built have been acting as an entertainment center but we have other plans for them in the future.  Carly found a guide online and we set off on another adventure in furniture building.

Just like last time, my dad was willing to help us out with this project too, though we think he may be helping just so he can have an excuse to use some of his tools.  We spent one Saturday buying all of the boards, screws, and everything else we needed to get this project done.  Unfortunately, we started a bit too late in the day to get anything other than that done.  The wood sat in my parent's garage until this Saturday when we all got up early, went to the gym for a class or two, and then set out to build some furniture.

I won't bore you with the exact details about every step in the guide, I'll let you take a look at them on your own, but I will attach a ton of pictures below of what we did!

We spent a lot of time making sure that everything was sanded, cut, and connected well, more than we did with the last project.  Spending a lot of time on these finishing touches will make it look great when we get down to really making it look pretty.

We needed to connect all the pieces of wood together and to do that we needed to drill a lot using a Kreg Jig to drill pocket holes.  Easily my new favorite tool.  It was really easy to use and I got to use it a lot to get the holes drilled to screw the pieces together later.  The next picture shows all of the holes I drilled in just one piece of the entertainment center.

Sadly, we weren't able to finish it on Saturday.  We made some really good progress and it looks great so far.  The shelves we built were so exhausting completing them in one day.  Splitting this project up into multiple days has been really nice and I think will give us a much better looking final product!  Stay tuned for more updates on our new entertainment center.

First make it possible.  Then make it beautiful.  Then make it fast.

Eric