Group Assignment 1: Furniture Design Progress

After consulting with Miss Lisa in our first group tutorial and telling her about our change of plans, she said it was okay and we were advised to use silicone glue to put our umbrella stand together. Last saturday, we went to Ace Hardware at Ikano Power Centre to buy some supplies (such as silicone glue, spray paint and bits of plastic pipes for our steampunk-styled decorations) before heading over to my house to build it.

My house has been renovated recently, so there were a lot of spare parts lying around that we could use for our project.

Figuring out how to put it all together. That's what I call improvising, heh.

We found old table legs and CD racks to use for the umbrella stand!

Cleaning the parts before painting, to make sure we don't paint over dirt.

We dismantled the CD rack and started spray painting it red, and the table legs gold. Our inspiration was Iron Man, with a steampunk twist.

We have to wait one day for the paint to fully dry. I'm glad we bought the spray paint. It really gives a finished look to everything.

After this, all that was left was to glue it together using silicone glue, and decorate it! Silicone glue is really strong. It's the glue used to piece together the glass of an aquarium!

Our progress so far. 

Extra: Steampunk Iron Man.

Look, it's CapFe's muse for our furniture assignment!

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Okay, back to work. Today we're going to meet up at Ikano Power Centre to buy some supplies at the hardware store, and then go back to my house to put it all together. Some assembly required.

Group Assignment 1: Change of plans.

After some reconsideration, we decided not to use the TV to make our TV bookshelf and instead opted for our backup plan, the umbrella stand.

Here's a picture of the big ol' TV that we were going to use:

Some reasons why we didn't use the TV:

- Hazardous. In order for our TV bookshelf to work. we would have to break the glass of the screen and use the inside of it to place planks as shelves. While in theory, breaking the glass seems easy, practically it is a difficult process. None of us are experienced in breaking glass before and we don't have the right safety equipment, such as goggles.

- Time and cost inefficient. Given the timeframe of the project, it would simply take too much unnecessary time and effort to break the glass. Cleaning up the broken glass pieces would take a long time too.

In theory it looked nice. Credits to Zue for the photo.

A lesson learnt: just because it may look nice in theory, doesn't mean it will work well practically!