In that light my blog roll morning reading has grown with one more section – all kinds of blogs that are related to a) organizing home space, b) home furniture, c) how to manage a home move and d) practical tips and hints for people in new homes.

Today I had a particularly notable experience that I want to share. Why? Because of the absurdity (engineering speaking). I moved the washing machine from the kitchen to the kitchen balcony. In that way I saved a lot of space in the kitchen, which by the way in now also a living room and a study (three-in-one multi functional room). However, by moving the washing machine, I caused myself a whole lots of problems on how to have the water run to the machine. Well, after spending nearly half a day bending hoses and cables, it finally works. But it was quite a bit of struggle though.

Also, this is also the reason why I’m opening up a new category of my blog called “DIY” (do-it-yourself) where I’ll blog about home related issues and moving to a new home.

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Being in a new home

Step 1:
Get the necessary materials:

Some Tee and Elbow joints

Two 32cm tubes, four 26cm tubes, two 6cm tubes (these lengths are for my FJS Amilo Pa1510 laptop; other laptop sizes may and most probably will vary). Note: all tubes are 3/4” so that usb cables can go trough the tubes.

Some decoration

Jute rope

Step 2:
Proceed to assemblying the tubes and the joints. At the end it should look like this:

Step 3:
Get an USB cable. We will put it inside the back of the pipes so that we can easily connect peripheral devices to the laptop.

Step 4:
Look at the back of one of the sides. We will slip the cable beneath and put it into the tubes.

Use a driller to make a small hole/space for the space at the bottom of the pipe (see the photo above) so that when the laptop stand is put on a desk, the cable doesn’t intefere with the proper balance of the stand.

Step 5:

Begin entangling the jute rope around the tubes. After that attach the decoration to the stand. I used hot glue gun with silicon to stick the different ornaments. At the end it should look something like this:

Attach with a tiny piece of rope the USB connector to the side of the stand like this:

Step 6:
You are done! :) Here is the ready-made laptop stand:

Enjoy! :)

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DIY: PVC Laptop Stand ver.// 2

I looked on various e-shops for a “laptop stand” so that I can just like some model, order it and make it an “end-of-story” situation. However, in Bulgaria no shop offers such stands (or at least for a price less than 200 leva). I looked on Amazon also. I particularly like the iLap model. Its price was quite reasonable for the trendy design it has, but the delivery is a killer. The cost of the delivery was as much as the product itself.

Finally I got here – my all-time favorite DIY website Instructables. Following this, I made my own laptop stand. Here it is:

The bare stand. Just note the usb hub at the bottom left corner of the stand. Very useful the cable organzation – just plug everything in there and then to the laptop.

Here it is in operation mode ;)

So the things you need to built it – well just a couple of PVC tubes, some tee and some elbow joints, a little bit of silicon glue, some cushioning (in the form of tube insulation) and here you go! :)

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DIY: PVC Laptop Stand