So yesterday I got the itch to finally get my living room livable....
My biggest problem was that I had no where to put my TV and all its cohorts. So I grabbed an old bookshelf and some paint and got to work!
This is what I started with:

Then I sanded it down...

Drilled a hole in the back for the cords to go through...

And painted it a brown velvet...

And there it is, my new TV stand, for a grand total of $4.48 for paint!

It holds my tv, books, XBox 360 and a bass speaker