#108 and #629 Two cranes, one goal and a cleaner entry

Sometimes you get lucky and two crane tasks converge in such a way that by completing one goal you achieve another in the process. That's wonderful when you have 1000 crane goals and hope to get it done in 10 years. It's a twofer, a BOGO, or maybe rather a DOGO. At any rate this weekend on 7/24/10, crane #108 "Build a piece of furniture" converged with crane #629 "Buy a dresser for the Entry way". Okay to be fair, it's not a dresser, but it's more or less the same concept, and it serves the purpose I was trying to address which was to clean up my entry way, provide drawers to store the random stuff I need to have handy but that doesn't have a home, and provide a surface to decorate as I feel the desire to do so.

Yes, it's a kit or modular furniture, or whatever you call it. And I suppose technically they are bins, not drawers, but I'm very happy with it none the less. As you can see from the picture I chose a nine cube shelf and dual neutral tones for the bins. I think it works with the entry way colors which are all wood tones and neutral tans and browns and such. I've already started filling the bins, and I plan to eventually replace the phonebooks in the middle with something decorative, I just needed a place to put them for the moment. Phone books are the bane to my existence as I live in an area where I'm on the fringe of several areas so I get fifteen phonebooks a year. That might be a small exaggeration, it might only be twelve, but still, a crap load of them and the bad thing is you have to dig through two or three to find what you are looking for most of the time. You can't tell from the picture but the bin below the phone books is filled with all the smaller phone books. Oh, and the jug of change is a crane project too. I can't think of what number off the top of my head at the moment though.

All in all I'm happy with it. Now I feel greater motivation to get my pictures hung on the wall above it to complete the look. I feel like I could put these shelving units together in my sleep now as I also bought one for each of the kids so when the curtain closed on the sun today I had built three of the dang things. Hopefully the kids will use theirs to keep their rooms in shape.

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