My son, Nicholas, loves everything we say "no" to. Loves. Passionately. (He will be two in December, need I say more?) Unfortunately, our DVD collection started to take the brunt of this passionate, explorative "love"...and we have a sizeable collection. After two broken in half VeggieTales, several scratched and marred discs of the Simpsons, and countless chewed up cases, my husband decided something had to change. What course of action did he follow? Well, of course, he began by looking for a new DVD shelf...something a little more Nicholas-proof. This was to no avail, though, due to poor selection and a tight budget.
We were walking through Lowe's when it struck- he had the perfect solution! I must admit, I was very skeptical when he explained his idea to me, it just seemed a little... rigged, to put it simply. He purchased the supplies he needed that day, and began the work shortly thereafter.
Here was his idea. Our DVD shelf was actually a moderately sized, wood bookshelf. He used a piece of wood that was approximately 6 inches larger than the base of the shelf as a base. On that base, he attached the working parts of a lazy susan- thereby giving the shelf the ability to turn a full circle. He then put a small sliding bolt lock on the bottom of the shelf and, after drilling holes in either side of the base, gave the shelf the ability to lock in either the rear-facing or front-facing position.
Voila! Problem solved! Now the only problem that remains is, how do I want to paint it?
Madison liked to climb into, onto, whatever she could climb she was going to try. That all stopped the day she climbed into the drawer on the tv stand. We had to nail the drawer closed for fear the tv would turnover on her. After that the chair thing came soon after. So to solve that we had a friend make a picnic table. So unless she moves the whole table shes not climbing. Madison is 5 now and I think I can finally have a real kitchen table again!
ReplyDeleteAnother thing... our end tables have doors on them so we hid her coloring books and things in them so she could easly get to them and they were hidden from companys eyesight.
An adventurous little girl! And I like your idea to put stuff in your end tables- we have a small table with 2 doors on it in our living room, and that is where we put alot of the kids' toys...although they are still everywhere most of the time!
ReplyDeletewait this is safe right?
ReplyDeletelol! Yes, it is definitely safe. I know it sounds less than safe, but it is totally sturdy. It swivels one direction and then locks into place, and you have to manually unlock it to swivel it into the other direction.
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