CUSTOM BUILT ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS
17 July 2008
"Home Cooking"
For a much longer time than I care to admit, my wife and I have been sitting in a home theater that is only about a third of the way finished. The big screen TV and surround sound speakers are there, as is a new couch, and everything is laid out as it will be in the finished project. But much of the cabinetwork I will make to finish the project is still but a glimmer in my eye. But for all that, I cannot tell you how often we have remarked to ourselves how comfortable that room is. Whatever it may be, it is still our own.
I bring that up because in recent years home theaters and entertainment centers have had a real explosion. On the one hand it makes no financial sense at all, because face it, for the amount of money one pours into a home theater, even one that is not much more than an elaborate entertainment center with surround sound speakers, one could go to the movies every week for a great many years. But, still, we do it. And the reason’s simple and has already been stated. It’s our own.
And that brings me to the subject of this particular blog, namely the entertainment center I actually have finished, the one in our master bedroom. Comfortable? Man, let me tell you, the wife likes to watch TV at night, and I often read one of my dusty history tomes, so after a bit of teasing that the baseball game looks pretty good, I usually vacate the field and leave her with the 65" TV in the family room. And, by gosh, she’ll go to the one in the bedroom.
And I hasten to add that it is not because the home theater in the family room is unfinished. Truth to tell, I could declare it finished right now, were I so minded. There are no bare wires hanging out of the wall or that sort of thing—it is simply waiting for some rather elaborate cabinetwork. No, what Christine most likes about the bedroom TV, I think, is that I almost never watch it, so when she goes back there, she’s in her own little world, one custom made for her. (For more of the details on this project, go to Thinking About It.)
The way to a man’s heart, they say, is through his stomach, and after all these years of smacking my lips over her homemade Mexican food, I can’t really argue with that. But if you really want to make a woman swoon, make some sawdust.
Joseph
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