We had an ugly metal clad solid wood exterior door that leads from a basement family room into our below grade garage. I had redone the floor and trim in the family room and was looking for a way to fancy up the door without having to spend a fortune.

Original door

Took the door off and cleaned it up

Cut 1/2 MDF to size to give the apperance of a 5 panel door

Glued on the panels, and filled and sanded all the edges. Chamfered edges

Primed

Paint added

Rehung- the MDF made an already thick door significantly thicker so I had to spend quite some time finding hardware that would work.

It's been 4 years since this was installed and it's held up perfect. I was worried about the MDF getting dinged, but it has not.

ESP8266 and a 2.4 inch touch screen. The button turns on and off the LED backlight on the screen.

Inside the base is a charging station that powers the weather display, 2x USB C and the galaxy 4 watch base.

The base is made of layers of plywood cut out on my laser cutter.

Weather station code by Daniel Eichhorn https://github.com/ThingPulse/esp8266-weather-station-color

Weather info is grabbed from Openweathermap, you can sign up for their free API key

Source code https://github.com/ThingPulse/esp8266-weather-station-color/blob/master/esp8266-weather-station-color.ino

I was using adafruit hardware so used their guide/libraries https://learn.adafruit.com/wifi-weather-station-with-tft-display

I had to remove some of their touchscreen calibration code since it seemed to be causing things to get hung up in a loop when turned on.

I also had to adjust the rotation 180degrees so the ESP attached to the back of the screen was at the bottom instead of the top to fit it in the enclosure.

I use pin 5 to toggle the LED backlight.

Build Album https://imgur.com/a/0gujuvz

Pretty simple pocket hole construction with poplar and edge banded birch plywood, painted black with an oil based paint.

I have never worked with caning before, and probably won't again. 😆. Getting it aligned and pulled tight was a chore.

Plans based off of the ones found here, and modified to my wife's requirements. https://www.thisoldhouse.com/house-one/22598580/how-to-build-a-console-cabinet

Some Where's Waldo inspired images from places in Middle Earth Album: https://imgur.com/a/g4SDof2

Took this one in Montana

Album https://imgur.com/a/EM0GTKB

Built this almost 6 years ago now, but thought you folks might appreciate it. Build album https://imgur.com/gallery/xNZRW

Update: Story complete! Thanks [email protected] and [email protected] for contributing!

ORIGINAL: Respond with an image of what happens in the next scene. Then others can respond to that image to continue the story.

Initial Midjourney prompt: 6 and 8 year old brothers, backs to the camera, playing in a backyard sandbox

Album https://imgur.com/gallery/UN78ula