I have to admit - I do enjoy a good project! If I can improve or fix something, or just gratify my need to play with power tools, well I'm all over it. To truly prove my desire for this, about 5 years ago, my wife and I decided to move to Riverton, into a brand new luxury home built by one of the fine builders who have managed to take over any fields that actually might be left in this once rural hamlet - and to ensure we can fix the many issues that come with this decision, made sure we were equally positioned between a Home Depot, a Lowe's and incidentally, for safety near a brand new Hospital!
So with all this in mind, I have no doubt that the 3 people who actually read my reviews may have seen the ones for the aforementioned hardware stores directly in my area. Now, if any of you are still left thus far, especially getting past that excruciating opening paragraph....well I'll indulge further....
This particular project came not so much out of a hankering for me to have some hugely fun project, but mostly due to the fact that we have cats that have worked out that the plants in my study make a particularly fine salad bar, and despite my many efforts to prevent this, I eventually conclude that placing them at altitude and away from climbable furniture might help with this situation :)
So I go to my local Home Depot inquiring about the possibilities of them having some corner shelves in stock, and the conversation went a (little) along these lines:
Me: "Do you have any corner shelves in stock?".
Employee: "Well sort of, but they're not really corner shelves, just pieces of wood we've cut down to be square and, well, attached them in the corner of a display you'll find on aisle......."
Me: "Well that's great, but not really what I'm looking for. I'd like something a little more aesthetically pleasing, plus you're assuming that anything square will fit in the corners of my home since it was built by one of the fine builders who have managed to take over any fields (you can see paragraph 1 for the rest of this)...and besides, I have the prerequisite power tools needed to cut a piece of wood at a 93 degree angle that will fit in this particular corner.
Employee: "Well they do have some nicer looking ones at the Sandy store."
I can vouch for the fact they did. Not only that, they actually have sufficient "give" in the mountings that you can fit them into slightly imperfect corners. It's that kind of thing that keeps me enthusiastic about being an engineer. No matter how badly someone can build something, someone else can import something with sufficiently bad tolerances you can make it work and it still looks great, that takes skill.
Oh - and yeah, this is meant to be a review of home depot wasn't it? Sorry, I got a little off course there. It happens when I dwell on 93 degree corners.
You know, I generally find Home Depot to be consistent. They have pretty good customer service, and while maybe not quite the knowledge of another certain chain, will indulge you in conversations about wonky drywall etc. which is certainly therapeutic.
Also, where else can you walk in, be greeted by 6 people, handed 3 books on various sales, asked by 15 people what you are looking for as you wander the aisles, and then get the speed of self checkout since there's no employees left to man the registers.
Keep up the good work Home Depot. You're A-OK in my book :) read more