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Flickr Finds: Zen Media Center

042508_sz_rockconsole.jpgIf you've ever gone to a spa you've probably noticed that pebbles and rocks play a large part in the décor. There's something relaxing about carefully arranged rock gardens, so it makes sense that you would want to transfer that mood to when you're watching a movie...

 
 

This media center incorporates a rock garden underneath the entertainment console. It looks like you could avoid having a custom rock holder made if you could find a shallow, but large, plant tray or an industrial steel tray like this, or a commercial fiberglass tray like this.

Photo: Flickr member, chicfreaksali

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Flickr Finds, inspiration, tables & desks, tvs & video screens, shelving & storage, dvd & video, home theater, set top appliance/ DVR, tray, console, media center, rock garden, zen

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Cool!

posted by ekoshyun on April 25th 2008 at 6:37am
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anyone know what that media console is at the bottom? is it an ikea hack of sorts?

posted by t1mmy on April 25th 2008 at 6:40am
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I love the way this looks but I can just imagine all the drifts of cat fur that would get caught in it. I can also imagine my cats playing with the rocks and getting them EVERYWHERE. Maybe if I glued them down. (The rocks, not the cats)

posted by Tiamat_the_Red on April 25th 2008 at 6:55am
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I like it too.

t1mmy, it looks like Crate & Barrel / Pottery Barn furniture to me, but it could be Ikea.

posted by Frank_in_Virginia on April 25th 2008 at 7:56am
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it's the infamous ikea lack shelf i found out.

posted by t1mmy on April 25th 2008 at 9:10am
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No way! They hacked the shelves to be those awesome cubbies?

posted by lil' soso on April 25th 2008 at 11:37am
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Too bad I have both cats and a toddler! Very pretty.

posted by farleece on April 26th 2008 at 4:12am
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and the point is.....?

posted by hdtex on April 27th 2008 at 4:41pm
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it looks neat, but imagine vacuuming that?? all the cat hair and dust bunnies...cleaning that would drive me friggin' batty.

posted by kdkaboom on April 28th 2008 at 7:20am
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