‘Odyssey’ Space Board

This is a kind of sideboard for a few things you need every day but have eventually no special place for them, like mobil phone, speakers, paperbacks … hooo, what ? However, having a cool sideboard, you know where to place and where to find. The one I built is a ‘spacey’ one – inspired by the original cool design of the greatest sci-fi movie of all times ‘2001 – A Space Odyssey’. Nomen est omen. Here are the basic steps to go.

Tools

• cutter
• pencil
• rulers
• saw
• glue (wallpaper adgesive)
• glueing tape, double side

Material

• cardboard (big box)
• cardboard x-large tube, diameter ~ 6+ in / 16+ cm (carpets, fabric floors)
• wrapping paper
• wood laths
• LED light

… is only a big cardboard box from shipping an x-large canvas printing, those big carpet tube.

Cutting the tube you cannot do with a cutter but best with this kind of saw. The cardboard box I made smaller by cutting out the middle section and glueing again the parts: so the vertical walls became double thickness.

… by cutting out with a cutter. Hard work, indeed. :-)

… proceed like the instruction on the package of the wallpaper adhesive suggests.

… for the stand; counterparts inside make it stable!

… at least: for ever by glueing it with double sided glueing tape! Place the tubes – also covered (the visible parts) with wrapping paper – and I placed a small stripe of reflecting foil on the ‘floor’ of each tube: making it again more ‘spacey’, color the stand. Odyssey finished. Light the LEDs if you like. That’s it! :-))

… with whatever you want! For example – for collecting the love letters of the biggest fan you ever had :-) … or for your rocking socks … or decorative elements, phone & phones, speaker, books!, snacks, sun glasses,

… the ‘Odyssey’ looks also ƒ…’n good from the backside! But that’s another story … ;-)

No image manipulation was done with this image: You are lying on the floor – between the ‘Odyssey’ and the wall – looking up. What looks like a planet is just the wall reflecting the LED light; and you see a little piece (square): this is keeping the distance between the ‘Odyssey’ and the wall.