My wife decided it was time to finally paint the entertainment center to match the paint in the rest of the room. In this picture (before) you can see the new paint color on the right wall.
I knew from the get go that this was going to be quite a task to take out the existing components so she could paint the entertainment center and put them back to their original state. Of course, taking them out is easy. Just unplug the plethora of wires and pull the components out. I guess I got it kind of easy though, as I was able to persuade Tammy to work around the wires in the entertainment center. This way I didn't have to fish all of the wires through the conduits in the entertainment center again.
After a few days, the painting was finally done (with the exception of a couple of shelves) but I was able to try and get things back in it's place. It all started with just putting the speakers back into the receiver. Not so easy. The labels that I have on the wires were no longer there, so I had to rig up a contraption to find out which wire went to which speaker. After that, things weren't too bad. I wired up the receiver first, the proceeded with the VCR, DVD, DVR, TV and power center. After turning everything on and making sure the basics worked, I wired up the Xbox360 and Xbox. Took me a good 3 hours to get everything done. Well, with some breaks to munch on some candy and down a beer of course. I'm glad that I have done this a number of times, or I would have been at it for quite a while.
No comments:
Post a Comment