A problem I thought up today when thinking about my TV was the fact that uh...I didn't have a thing to put it on. Given that I wasn't going to be an uncivilised animal and chuck it on the floor, nor are the walls in my house strong enough to support a wall-mounted TV, I decided the best option was to go out and purchase a TV Cabinet.
By the time I left work to go shopping, it was already 3PM and any IKEA I could have reached would have been closed by the time I got there. For that reason, I decided to head down to the local shopping mall; after about an hour of indecisiveness, I purchased a small and sweet little thing that I could put my 5 consoles on and my games.
This loving box.
It weighed about a tonne, and my route home involved a 30 minute walk to the trains, a 5 minute train journey, a 10 minute walk to the buses, an hour long bus ride and then a 20 minute walk up and down a loving hill. As a part of this journey, I got the "clever" idea to drag the box along the tiled floors of the train station as it was easy to push than to carry...this would end up wrecking one of the corners on the the thing, but never mind that.
Construction went...smoothly? In James May style, I spent a lot more time organising and naming my tools and counting the individual screws than actually building the thing. After it all came together, getting my PS1, PS2 Slim, PS3 Super Slim, PS4 Pro and Xbox One S locked in was an easy job...if only I had enough power points for them all.
I'm doing to address the height issue (it's half the height of my bed) by buying another set of cabinets to rest it on later, but for the time being it's pretty perfect. I just need another power strip for the PS1, PS2 and Android phone charger (not enough USB slots on the consoles) and the TV itself.
