now for the component cabinet/bar

when we bought the house 4 years ago, we found this sideboard buffet in the attic of the shop.  i've been wanting to refinish it and use it in the house somewhere.  so, we decided to use it as the component cabinet will also double as a dry bar.

    

i removed all the dry rotted wood veneer, sanded it, primed it and painted it. here's the halfway cabinet and bar.

i still need to drill out the access holes in the back, install stemware racks in the cabinets and tile the top with leftover granite tile form the kitchen countertops.

getting started....

stacie went to savannah with friend on July 7-10.  so, i removed the ceiling fan, painted the crown and ceiling a dark brown, installed four recessed can lights, and hung blackout curtains over the front window and doorway to the dining room. 

always wanted a home movie theater...

i love watching movies.  i hate going to movie theaters. luckily, i finally talked stacie into considering turing the front living room into a home movie theater. this room was formerly the kid's L-shaped yellow with green poca dotted play room.  when we remodeled the kitchen and added a wall to make a formal dining room, we turned laney's bedroom into the kids' play room and moved laney's bedroom into the office.  so now i have a 17x13 living room to work with.  the only condition is that the piano has to stay.

when i finally got the go ahead from stacie, we still had not replaced the crown molding we removed when we added the dining room wall.  she helped me with that so that we could have a some-what completed canvas to work with.

here are some before pictures with the crown molding installed:

After the crown was replaced, the plan was to remove the ceiling fan, paint the ceiling and crown (to disguise the unsightly seams), install can lights, hang a projector and hang surround sound speakers, slipcover the loveseat and chair, and build a component cabinet/bar.