Well i have lost interest for the time being on doing mods to the truck sooooo I started working on the house... My first project which is almost complete is building a home office! so the wife and I decided on having my father build a bookshelf and built in desk.... Then we had a granite top cut for it, then we decided to add a decent desktop which will be used for media server for the eventual home theater project...

So first I designed a bookshelf that I got my father to build... The wife and i wanted something made out of real wood and we wanted to not look cheap... I do metal, he does the wood stuff in the family.... He built all of this out of Ash and in his home work shop.

My wife is 5'2 so that shows you the scale of this bad boy....









Next came the desk... I also designed this and my father built it... This came out awesome!!! He even built a set of raised panel doors for it!!

















next came the really expensive part, the granite...







next up came the computer... I was able to pick up all this stuff off of ebay used for one hell of deal.... The tower is a basically a small business server (dual 3.0 xeon processors, Onboard U320 raid controller, 15k U320 73g disk running the OS, Onboard SATA raid controller running 2x1Tb 32mb cache SATA disks in a Raid 0, 2g of memory expanded to 16g , etc etc)... Lets just say it is insanely fast.... Also one of the requirements my wife gave me is not being able to see ANY of the wire or tower...







Then I had to upgrade the internals of the computer to keep it cool, since the tower itself runs rather hot... So i added new heatsinks on the CPUs and several additional fans... Then i had to add some exhaust fans...









All that and we still are not finished... We still need to by a flat screen to watch TV, add some pictures to the wall and a sitting chair for the corner and a new leather desk chair...

Sooooo more pics to come....

 

looks killer, wanna stop by my house and fund a project like this for me? Ill let you, i promise I don't mind!!!!
Good job and looks great!

 

dam corey, you've been busy lol.
looks good.

 

All of the computer hardware/wood working looks great, but you shouldn't have skimped on the monitor for that sick of a setup LOL

 

Damn. I'm about to start on my office and downstairs john (the man space!) and WANT to go the direction you did, but I'm too po. Your dad does really nice work. Your wife's parents seem to have done some nice work too!

 

awsome setup corey!!! how many slabs of granite is that?

 

Well the wife did not want toooo big of a monitor. But the video card is a dual dvi, so once the plasma/lcd/led tv goes in, it will be hooked up to the computer too. The mouse and keyboars are wireless.

 

Both the desk and book shelf came out real nice. Does your dad do that kind of stuff for a living?

 

Well my father grew up working in his family's cabinet shop, so he knows his way around wood working tools... He really enjoys making that stuff and he uses the good stuff from a local wood supplier, not the home depot crap wood... For example, the ash ply wood he buys is from russia of all places... He spends alot of time out in the lumber yard hand picking pieces tooo... As you can tell the grain of the wood is freaking crazy...

 

Oh yeah that'll be pretty sick, what graphics card did you end up using? I'd love to build myself a good home system, but everything I do is only web based, so theres really no need for space + processing power.