I decided that some Project Organise was necessary. A quick trip to Kmart and I purchased this little canvas storage unit to put in between the boys car seats. I measured the space first as there is not much room between them. I know this as I had to squash myself in the back the other day when we were dropping my MIL home... to the other side of Sydney! Anyway, inside I put all the various items that the boys use to entertain themselves on car trips. Books, colouring-in items, a couple of puzzle toys and a few small matchbox cars and planes.
Fits perfectly! At the back is a Crayola Travel Turtle. I am really hoping to avoid going down the DVD player in the car path, so this is my way of trying to keep the boys entertained on long car trips! Audio books on CD have been fantastic as well.
Photo of the TV, it is wall mounted above the sideboard. The bracket for the TV is not centered above the unit as it needed to be attached to a load bearing stud. Something to think about if you are wall mounting! The TV moves around on the bracket though so we can position it at different angles. In the above photo it is pushed back to the right against the wall.
My paternal grandparents were anthropologists. I inherited many of the artefacts that they collected in the 1930s/40s. These pieces are Aboriginal and Samoan and are hiding a speaker. The DVD player and Foxtel are also here, but when we renovate next month and this wall gets ripped out we will relocate these items into the sideboard itself.
At the other end of the sideboard, is the amp, another speaker, one of my WW1 ashtrays, an aboriginal knife and a painting by June Bird.