Creating a Charging Station

First, get yourself a "helpful" cat. oi.

We wanted to create a charging station hidden in our entertainment center, which for us happens to be a mid-century buffet. We took the bottom drawer and drilled a hole in the back of the cabinet as well as one in the back of the drawer. This is for the power strip cord to go through out the back into the wall.



We then cut two 2" x 2" pieces of wood and screwed them into the sides as supports for our grid board. We also placed a 3" piece directly in the center to give it additional support since our devices are heavy and cause the grid board to warp.

Next, we cut a piece of grid board the same size as the interior of the drawer and put a drawer know into one of the holes as a handle to lift it up and down if we need to plug or unplug any of our power cords.

The final step was to run all of the power cords down the back of the grid board and plug them into the power strip that is below. The grid board serves two purposes. The first is that the divits created by cutting along the edge of the open circles allow for the power cords to run along the back into the below space where the power strip is located. The second is to provide venting for any heat that is created by the power sources.

Whalah! Camera, camera battery charger, video cam, walkie talkies, PSP and phone all plugged in and out of sight!