Guest Bedroom Project!

We literally have everything ready for Emery's arrival (YEAH!), so we've been keeping ourselves busy with a couple more projects around our house that had been on our to-do list for a while!

Since the guest bedroom is officially down in the basement now, we wanted to set up a tv for our guests on our bookshelves.  Kyle remembered when him and my dad had built this room in the first place that he could access the tv cable right above the bookshelves.  

So this is how I found him one night.  HAHAHA

YES his arm is completely inside the ceiling.  The access panel that was right there was only big enough for one arm.  So needless to say it was a frustrating process trying to split cables with one hand.  He worked for a while like this, I can't believe his arm didn't fall asleep!  BUT he did it, so that way we could secretly hide all the wires behind the shelves instead of having it run across the floor.

The next snag, was that the only tv that we had left was one that was too big to sit in our built-in bookshelves.  So Kyle being handy as ever, measured out the tv and built a custom shelf for the tv to sit on.  We added trim around the bottom, painted it, and screwed it into place.

We still have to figure out the extension cord and tv cable, most likely they'll come out from the top of that cabinet and be hidden as well.  Please ignore the dust on the tv :)

So these are how our built ins look now.  Pretty crowded but since I had to empty out my craft closet to be the guest closet this will do.  I have all my sewing and crafts on one side and my stationary and printing stuff on the other.

Another thing to check off the list!