IKEA furniture make-over

Dansk: Jeg kan godt lide god lyd, og holder meget af at se film. Men når tv og højtalere ikke er i brug føler jeg ingen trang til at kunne se dem.
Jeg vidste at Paolo var manden i mit liv, da han købte et sorround sound system med bitte små højtalere lige da han var flyttet til København. Og da han, lige efter vi blev gift, var enig med mig i at et tv kabinet var en god ide, bekræftigedes mistanken.
Vi købte et tv-møbel med låger. Jeg kan lide det estetisk at TV’et er gemt væk når det ikke er i brug, men det er også praktisk at børn ikke så nemt kan komme til TV’et og det hjælper også lidt med at begrænse TV kiggeriet at der er låger for.
Møbelet var designet til de gamle kasse fjernsyn, og da vi anskaffede os et fladskærms tv (fordi opløsningen på det gamle ikke var godt nok til Paolos PS3), virkede møblet fuldstændig overdimensioneret i dybden. Møblet var mørkebrunt, og da vi også fik et gammelt mørkebrunt klaver i stuen blev det for meget med to klodsede mørkebrune “møbler”.
Vi blev enige om at skille os af med tv-møblet og lede efter en anden løsning. Men besluttede os så for at vi lige så godt kunne prøve at ændre lidt på møblet. Vi havde intet at miste og det var jo kun farven og dybden der var noget galt med.
Så Paolo og en af hans venner savede simpelthen hele bagsiden af og 20 cm af dybden, afstivede det med nogen træstykker, rykkede bagbenene længere ind, tilpassede skufferne og jeg malede det hvidt.
Dybden svarer kun lige til PlayStationen og dvd-afspilleren. Det er blevet et meget lettere møbel at se på og jeg er utrolig glad for resultatet.

English: I appreciate good sound, and I’m very fond of watching movies. But when the TV and speakers are not in use, I feel no urge to see them.
I knew that Paolo was the man in my life, when he bought a surround sound system with tiny speakers just as he had moved to Copenhagen. And when he, just after we got married, agreed with me that a TV cabinet was a good idea, I was absolutely sure about it.
We bought a TV furniture with doors. When the TV was not in use, it could neatly be stored away. I like it aestheticly but it is also convenient because children could not so easily get to the TV and it also helps a little with limiting TV-watching because of the doors.
The cabinet was designed for the old box televisions, and when we acquired a flat screen TV (because the resolution of the old was not good enough for Paolos PS3), the furniture seemed completely oversized in depth. The furniture was dark brown, and when we also got an old dark brown piano in the living room, it was too much with two massive dark brown “furniture”.
We agreed to dispose of the TV furniture and look for another solution. But then decided that we might as well try to remodel the furniture. We had nothing to lose and it was only the color and depth there was something wrong with.
So Paolo and one of his friends simply sawed off the whole back side and 20 cm of the depth, moved further in the hind legs, adjusted the drawers and I painted it white.
The depth now corresponds to the Play Station and DVD player. It has become a much lighter Furniture to look at and I am extremely happy with the result.