Cupboard Remodelling
Working out of a cupboard blows. Especially when it’s a tiny dank hole in the wall.
So I decided to spruce it up somewhat and improve the atmosphere. To do this I would remove the pc from the environment entirely. Luckily my cupboard is directly above my garage where I have pleanty of room for computers and other assorted paraphenalia.
The goal decided, it was time to plan.
Schematic for wiring of a cupboard
Downstairs Cabling
With all the computer crap I do it’s necessary for me to be able to plug in extra computing gear as required. So I tried to make sure there would be enough ports to handly anything I could reasonable think of.
In addition to the cupboard wiring I also decided to network the house with Cat6. Just because I could.
To begin I ripped out the cupboard walls, replaced some joists then put all the cables in place.
All the cables in place
The left hand side shows all the cat6 from the rest of the house in place. There are 7 network ports around the house with an additional 4 to be put in the cupboard.
The gyprock sheets are in place
Putting the plaster up was the easy bit, finishing it off is a skill I do not inately possess. It’s somewhat hidden with the undercoat, but really I should have sanded it more.
Undercoat on
Due to delays in getting some of the cabling I wasn’t able to fully test it until after I had painted, but I couldn’t change my mind anyway so it’s a good thing it worked.
Yay! It Works!
The mostly finished product can be seen here
She Rides!
Still to come:
- Wall mounts for the monitors.
- Cleaning up the cables so you can’t see any.
- Desk made out of something decent.
- Set of speakers.
- Top half of the cupboard (I have yet to decide what to do with it, but eventually it’ll all be ripped out and replaced as well).
Downstairs is similarly incomplete. I am going to make a server cupboard to hide everything in, but that can wait a bit longer.