Storage Solution: Built-Ins

The first time we stepped into the open house of our home, I automatically thought that if we bought this place it would need built-ins around the fireplace.  Being built in 1951, it is bare on storage.  Yes, we have an unfinished basement, but I wanted places to store books and movies and pictures and clickers and all that stuff you use and never know where to put at the end of the day. 

Upon our return from Park City, UT from skiing, Hubs immediately decided to tackle the built-ins on MLK day.  He modeled it in Google Sketch-up first to minimize any waste.  It also gave us a chance to tweak the scale and size and determine construction sequencing.

Since most of our furniture is coming tomorrow, here is a peak at what we have been working on over the past 2 weeks.  Much more progress has been made over the past 2 weeks, I just haven't taken any pics.. oops.  I plan to 1) show how we made them and 2) get these babies painted and upstairs this weekend.

At Home Depot cutting the boards to size (saves time)

First bit of work