Total Serious Happy Thread

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

We are, for all intents and purposes, done with clearing out what will be the nursery. Still have to unload the big furniture, but that's the easy part. Sorting through the 11 years' worth of accumulation, making the hard decisions about what to toss, and finding/creating space for what to keep is behind us.

Now the rebuilding begins. Today we talked colors, and much to our surprise we came to a consensus in short order. It helps that we were working from an existing color palette, but it was still a nice surprise to actually be on the same aesthetic page form the get-go for once.

Meanwhile I have fully spec'd out a custom closet storage beast that I plan on building myself. Cubes for easy-access storage bins, cabinets w/doors for large storage, and a chest of drawers. It's by far the largest carpentry project I'll have ever done. So far I've had a ton of fun drawing up plans, making materials and cut lists. Hopefully the fun lasts. I think I've come up with a design that, once I learn from my mistakes on the first couple tries, should be fairly easy. Pretty much every piece will be using the same list of cuts, just scaled up or down, and everything is going to be modular so I can focus on individual units that fit together rather than having to build the whole thing at once (which carries the added benefits of being movable/reconfigurable AND if I make the first few units and subsequently give up, I should still have some usable stuff to show for it). Best of all, it should cost 1/2 of what children's furniture stores charge for shoddy furniture.

Tomorrow will be round one of supply procurement. Happy happy joy joy.

Sounds fun. However, have you thought it through? If your child has access to the bins in cubes once he becomes mobile, the contents will be on the floor every day. Do your chest of draw plans include latches or drawer stops? Also, I can't recall seeing a large storage thingy in a children's furniture store, so I'm curious what it's for and, of course, if it's safe.

Finally, sir, if you do this, you must finish it long before the baby is born, or the odds of your ever finishing it will decrease substantially. After the baby is born, you will be handling a lot more basic things than furniture building, and waking the baby with carpentry noises will not be an option.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Finally, sir, if you do this, you must finish it long before the baby is born, or the odds of your ever finishing it will decrease substantially.

Oh no! My entire plan hinged on all of the free time I was expecting to have once the baby was born! If only I had planned it such that I could do a small portion of the project and then decide whether to complete the entire design or just leave it as is.