One expects to see Hominids learning to use bones as weapons...
After seeing a couple of different hobby desks based on old armoires or television cabinets (like
this one,
source unknown),
I decided to make one for myself. With no real plan other than "Take
the junk from the desk and stuff it into a custom, organized armoire", I
set about making my own personal hobby nest.
Of
course, the first step was finding the right piece of furniture to start
with. I wanted something sturdy enough to handle day to day use, but
handsome enough to function as a piece of home furnishing for years to
come. So nothing cheap, and nothing ugly.
Then I got
picky. I didn't want anything too beat up. I can
salvage/re-surface/re-finish, but I wanted to minimize the amount of
elbow grease needed before I would even start converting it into my
hobby mecca. I wanted doors that swing open, not the more common type
that fold back into the unit on rails. I also wanted something somewhat
large, as a lot of smaller TV cabinets couldn't possibly contain the
massive amount of materials I needed to store. Aside from all that, I'm
partial to dark wood, as it fits into a more man-cave, den environment.
