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Thank you for the kind words of encouragement Nick. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some work to do.

::purge, purge. packity, packity. clean , clean, clean::

P.S. Enjoy the kids while they are young. They grow up and disappear more quickly than you would think possible.

Scrapity, scrape, scrape...

Sand, sand...

Patch, patch.

Whew, that was tough!

Sigh, who am I kidding. I can't compete with hazmat suits, LVL beams and vapor barrier.

::slinks off in shame::

This is actually ridiculously simple. I could already be projecting except that I'm holding off to see if there will be any Black Friday deals on the W1070.

The hardest part of all this seems to be finding a piece of furniture that will accommodate my equipment that is inexpensive, looks half decent and will fit my lower M2 center.

It seems I can have two of those three.

I've decided my best bet for this location is a low profile credenza style unit. If I had room to do some simple woodwork, it would be dead simple to build something that both looks very good and fits the location. Why don't apartments come with Mark S. Johnson type basements?

Lots of great options ready to buy. Almost tailor made for this.

http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/S99930065/

When you are putting your feet up to watch a flick, months ahead of me, I'll be wishing I had your space. Post a pic when you are done!

In the land of almost...

The Besta bench would be perfect, but at 12 5/8" tall I would be surprised if I can fit an 11.5" speaker inside the middle section.

The Lack bench that is 21" deep would work,but it lacks style to put it nicely.

For a little bit more $, I may be able to get a local wood specialty shop to join and plane some boards for me out of something a little nicer. Say like this:



With the lumber properly dimensioned, simple case construction is something I could easily do.

2 narrow stands, 1 on each side of the center.

Yup. Been on the lookout for something like that too. They need to be 16" deep to accommodate my receiver. Ikea has a nice unit, except it is only 12" deep.

Two little units in black walnut or that cedar I posted would look very nice. That or one long unit about 14" tall with a single 12" shelf.

Fred , don't forget about the plugs on the back. I am not sure what receiver you have but unless the back is open you will need it to be deeper.

Richard

Thanks Richard. Yes, the plan is to go open one way or another. I hate having to pull components out of a cabinet to make changes to connections. It's much easier to just slide the whole babinet forward to get at wires.

Hmm, that is actually a big plus for two small cabinets. Much easier to rotate to get at the wires in back.

Thanks!