If we were just swapping out the TV, it would be different, but we're getting a larger one, which won't fit in the old entertainment center. The old entertainment center has done a yeoman job anyway; it's been saddled with components, videotapes, and the television, and is now a bit swaybacked in the middle, but has stood the test of time.

We bought a new stand on Saturday as well. Since we got a 36" television, there are not many entertainment centers that would fit it without it costing an arm and a leg. Plus we want the television in the corner rather than where it is now. I always wanted it up against the far wall, not where it is now, where it reflects the light coming in the glass doors even when the blinds are tightly shut. However, that's where the folks who helped us move put it the day we moved, and I had no intention of asking people who were nice enough to help us move in 99 degree weather with 98 humidity to move something yet again.

(I looked at corner entertainment units and simply screamed. The darn things cost as much as or more than the television. I saw a gorgeous unit at the unpainted furniture store on Fairground Road. Before finishing it was $1200!)

Neither James nor I liked the corner units we saw anywhere else, though. They all had two shelves below and were very low. We probably would have settled for the unit at BJ's, which was industrial but not bad looking, then we found this stand at Circuit City where we got the television, with three levels underneath and lifting the TV to the height we were accustomed to. It was the display model and had some nicks and scratches in it, so they knocked a bunch off the price. When we got it home I applied those wax furniture repair crayons to the finish, then buffed it down with Pledge. I will not say you can't see the nicks or the scratches, since they are right in front. However, they are less obvious to the point of nearly invisible, and I'm not going for House Beautiful here, only House Neat. "That'll do, pig."

I was well aware that the area over the TV would be "dead space." Accordingly I bought a corner shelf at Michael's, painted it a metallic blue and silver, and James has mounted it in the corner, with an appropriate rocket model (an Redstone with Gus Grissom's "Liberty Bell 7" on the top). Next I will move two of the move posters (probably Apollo  and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) to either side of the corner shelf. That will keep the corner bright, as the den is dark-panelled. Then the DVD towers will flank either side of the TV.

Our big problem clearing out the corner is the last third. Yesterday we got rid of one bookcase (it was disposed of rather than donated because the top and one shelf were in a splintery condition) and moved a tower bookcase into the bathroom briefly. The last obstacle is the big five-shelfer with all the media books on it--not moving it per se, but where to pile the books when we do move it. The formerly empty corner of the den is clotted with two CD spinners, and my cross-stitch stuff (which was in the discarded bookcase), plus what stuff was already there (used clipboards, the old non-working laptop, and the dog's bed). It is a problem...

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