When I was a very small child, and TV was just out of its infancy, we were always told we had to sit a goodly distance from the screen. The two main reasons were either we would go blind or the radiation from the CRT would poison us. Times have changes...

As for big screens, why not do an entire wall?:



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Hey, if its good enough for NASA...


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Sorry, but... ugh NO. Every time I moved or wanted to get up the thing would shift or have to be shifted. I hate lap desks for that reason. Also I don't want the keyboard right in my lap, that wouldn't be very comfortable IMO. And it doesn't look wide enough to accommodate both my keyboard and allow room for mousing anyway.

Good assessment :cool:

I see...well it was an idea... :hmmm:

Just being curious ... do you keep receipts?

How much have you spent on this move?

Unless it might be something I need when I do my taxes, or something I bought that I might need to return or that's under warranty, I usually only keep receipts until I balance my records with my bank statements.

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A lot. :O:

Actually I had a specific amount set aside before I started looking for a place. After closing I had about $7000 left over, the last of which just paid for a new refrigerator. The bulk of the rest went into the kitchen, office, and bedroom.

With that gone, I'm back to buying what I can afford after monthly expenses are met which is kind of a relief since it means I can't buy myself $1000 worth of new projects to tackle every other week. :haha:

I did tackle the cable management monster this weekend, though. Got some... things to put up under the desk to get cables up off the floor.

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That led to me mounting the UPS/surge protection units up on the wall to keep them of the desk and/or floor, because why not?

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Not pictured: hours and hours of frustation, sweating, and cursing while hooking everything back up after deciding where it was all gonna go permanently. :O:

Turned out pretty well for now, though.

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I still have cords and cables on the floor directly behind the desk, but I didn't pull it out far enough to do anything about that this time. If/when I paint that wall I'll have to unplug everything again and pull it out in the center of the room so I'll have to think about whether I want to put something on the back of the desk to deal with that issue. I may not push the desk up as close to the wall in the final configuration so something to keep that area tidy might be worthwhile. :hmmm:

Looks great and far tidier than mine :cool:

I can see your dilemma dear Frau. So many options that make it difficult to decide.:03:

I like routing cables and such. Mine is a mess at the moment but I'll get a...
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Electronic spaghetti.

So here's the end result so far of what I've been up to the past few days:

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That's the wall on the garage side of the little storage room between the garage and kitchen. The floor in there is really dodgy, by which I mean it's not level on that side at all. Don't know whether that's something I'll be able to remedy when I put new flooring down in there, but I wanted one wall for hanging stuff anyway so I picked the side where it was already tricky to sit any freestanding shelves on the floor. The little metal cart is on wheels that lock and on the most level part of the floor on that side so it's doing fine there for now.

Ordered the broom/mop rack from Amazon yesterday and was surprised that it showed up today since it wasn't due 'til tomorrow, but since I had it I went ahead and finished the job tonight. Already had one of those high shelves up yesterday, the one on the left... tried for the second one but botched it - I poked holes in the wall that turned out to be a little too large for the anchors I had and one of them wasn't holding well at all and I didn't want to risk leaving it that way. Ended up taking it down and patching the holes and when I got home today it had dried white and after a little sanding you really couldn't tell where I'd patched it. I just positioned the shelf a little further to the left and got it right this time.

Of course a couple of the things hanging there need to be plugged in for recharging, which I can't do in that location because I don't have an outlet in there yet... that's gonna be next on the list, I think. Still debating whether I want to try and do it myself. :hmmm:

The currently unused corner on that side will have more wall-mounted shelving, already picked some out from Ikea and made sure to leave enough space for it. Probably will go from where the current shelves are about halfway down to the floor. I need to keep a good portion of the back of the room free down near the floor to leave room for all the stuff that will be needed for the kitties I plan to get in the future, most notably the litter box and probably their food/water bowls as well.

The other side of the wall now looks like this:

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Not sure about leaving that cabinet back in the corner, I'll have to see how the space plays out once I start preparing for my Someday Kitties. :D But I would like to keep as much closed storage space as possible because of the kitties spending time in there. The white/wood cart in the middle will probably stay where it is - it's actually a kitchen appliance cart that I have no need for in the kitchen, and it got pretty beat up in the move, but it's still a decent addition to the storage room. Up high, maybe more wall-mounted shelving if I think I need it.

The plastic cart of drawers next to it will end up somewhere else, as will the stepladder, because the space beside the door is set aside for a little bench/shoe-rack that I've already picked out. A nice spot to sit down and peel off wet/muddy/snowy footwear when the weather turns in that direction. :yeah:

Last of all, I had a wall-mounted pot rack/rail in the apartment that I have absolutely no use for in the kitchen here - so I cleaned it up and recycled it as a coat rack on the wall between the kitchen and garage doors.

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Actually I have two of these, and the hooks are movable and removable, so I just put one up and stuck as many hooks on there as I thought would work. Don't know what I'll do with the other rail, it's not in as good a shape, but I might find a use for it in the garage or a closet somewhere.

Before I did all this, of course, I had to clean out the room, which started with climbing up on the ladder in the garage and cleaning off the storage loft in there. Ugh. Lots of dust and debris and cobwebs and not much of interest. Some really old and dirty vertical blinds which must have been in a window here at some point, which all went straight in the trash. A couple lengths of coaxial cable that I might make use of, some extra tiles from one of the upstairs bathrooms which I saved just on principle and also a decent bit of leftover flooring from when the kitchen and hallway were last done, that definitely might come in handy someday. So not much stuff to deal with but an unpleasant job just the same.

Anyhoo once I got the loft cleaned off I was able to start stacking all my empty moving boxes out there, which got them out of the storage room, and boy did it seem a lot larger after that. :haha: Also moved out the three narrow freestanding shelf towers that I had in there - two are in the dining room for now but will likely find a home in one of the spare closets, and the tall one is out in one corner of the garage holding paint and spackle and some tools and other associated bits and pieces that probably belong in the garage anyway.

So... next major project may be continued work on the storage room, getting electricity in there and possibly starting to tear up the floor in the back corners to see what I'm dealing with there. Also I need to order some carpet tiles from somewhere to get them down in the back of the hall closet. I'd also like to make a decision on paint colors for the office and get that taken care of so I can be free to start putting more bookcases in here as the money becomes available, without having to face the prospect of moving them around to paint later on.

Anyway... I have the first week of September off work for vacation so we'll see how many things I can get lined up and ready to go, I'm hoping I can knock out at least a couple of the bigger projects then.

Nice and tidy . If it was my place the teenage kids would have all that cleaning equipment lost in there rooms . As well as all the bowls , plates knives spoons and forks :stare: . They just eat and sleep . No time for tidy .

An organized lady.:)

>sigh< If only I had one of those.:wah:

My lady's organizational skills are limited to piles made on any open, flat surface.:stare: I gave up trying to organize this household because every time I clear up a mess, another one quickly takes its place thanks to her and her second born child's pure laziness.:stare:

I have just revealed the cause of my insanity. :88)
Is there a doctor in the house?:O:

My attempts at teaching the "clean as you go" and "a place for everything and everything in its place" concepts has been as fruitful as spitting into the wind.:hmmm:

A tidy home is a happy home in my book and I hope dear Frau, that you have considered all of the extra cleaning chores that a herd of cats will visit upon your abode. Not to mention their proclivity for sharpening claws on door moldings, carpets and furniture.
We had one cat that was prone to feeding our dogs from the snack cupboard. The dirty little Tom would toss out a "new" bag of chips and claw them open as a peace offering to the canine gang.
Neatly splitting the bag down the center like it was cut with a knife. :haha:
I wasn't sad to see him take the one way trip to the farm.:stare:

Well, that's what happens when you stand in front of the dragon lady and defiantly defecate on the bed because she won't let you go outside to carouse and fight.:03: He got what he wanted. A life in the great outdoors.

That sounds very familiar Wolferz, my ex was the same way. The amazing thing was if you were looking for something, she knew exactly which pile it was in.:hmmm:

Lol, proof that you don't have to be tidy to be organized. Sometimes everything has its place and is right where it should be, only all the various places are just piles of stuff here and there. Kind of like some areas of my condo at the moment. :haha:

That is actually one of my biggest weaknesses... always the temptation to put something down "right here for now" instead of carrying it back to where it goes. Even if I've made a place for it somewhere else. Do that long enough and eventually nothing is "where it goes" anymore, it's all piled up somewhere else. That's how my kitchen table always ends up with random stuff heaped on it, it was always the most convenient place to drop something I'd couldn't be arsed to deal with or put away at the moment.