The ILH Making Your Own Furniture/Decor thread

haha je55e -- this is getting off topic and maybe it's just me but i've always felt like home depot is kind of a cruising environment, it's basically a series of long hypermasculine alleyways populated by rugged dudes and you have to kind of lurk around near all this manly stuff, sometimes you stop and ask a guy a question then you end up following him down a darkened aisle. idk, maybe i just get confused by the signage out front for "contractor pickup" because i always think "yes, please."

i used to walk around there aimlessly all the time, back when i was making this ridiculous stuff and: you're not the only one whose mind that has crossed. it even smells good in there. chemicals and wood? yes, please.

roaming around hardware or building places is the best, either aimlessly or more often when I have a particular need but don't quite know what what piece of hardware will get closest to solving my problem

I like it, though it gets stressful when I get stuck in hunting mode when I have nothing left to hunt for.

Hardware stores are THE BEST. I've sung the praises of that hardware smell so many times.

Once I walked into my local Home Depot and they were playing "I Feel Love".

I'm usually so goal-focused when I go to Home Despot, I've never gone in and just wandered.

I have to be goal-oriented in there or else I will buy the fixings for at least 8 projects at a time and spend $$$ before I know it.

There used to be a Yelp review for the Homo Depot where the reviewer claimed that the gay guys who worked there were always cutting up and throwing around innuendo when he asked them for caulk, screws, and wood. I really didn't believe him. Sadly, the review is gone now.