Trying Something New

This is how we've had our TV set up ever since we got married and it has worked well until the last couple of months. As you can see the DVDs were right in Jaxon's reach, which didn't bother me, but his constant need to pull himself up and play with the DVD player and TV, and trying to crawl behind it to play with all of the cords is what drove me crazy. I was getting his fingers out of the VCR part of the DVD player and taking him away from all of the cords in back at least a few dozen times a day. So I have been looking for a new TV stand that was wider so it would reach the wall that way he couldn't get behind it, and something taller so he wasn't trying to hit the TV anymore, and something a bit more sturdy. This cart was a little wobbly, I was getting nervous that the TV was going to fall over. I also needed the new stand to be pretty cheap. Well after lots of searching I wasn't able to find anything so instead I decided to take a dresser that we already had that we weren't really using right now and refinish it and use it for the TV. I was a little nervous to stain the dresser because I've never stained anything before, but I think it turned out ok.

Jax loves to watch football!!

I forgot to get a picture of the dresser before, but this is a nightstand that went with it, so it looked like this...

Now it looks like this. I wasn't sure if I would like it or not but I think I do, plus now it matches with the rest of our furniture in our livingroom. We left the old hardware on it for now but that can be easily changed. I love that now Jaxon can't reach the TV or the DVD player and all the DVDs are put safely away in the drawers for now anyway, I'm sure it won't be long until he figures out how to open them, but I think I'm ok with that. I also redid our kitchen chairs but I'm not sure if I'm going to do another coat of stain on them or not so I haven't moved them back into the house yet. I'll post those pictures when I'm all finished.