I did not toss and turn last night, thinking about this shelving unit project. Nope. It did not occur to me that maybe the aquarium needs to be on the right side, because that’s where all the outlets are.

I definitely didn’t make a scale model of the unit in Illustrator from scratch. Why would I spend all that time estimating how much each fitting would add to the length of each pipe, overlapping all of the parts just right to show how far they’d twist into each other? A 90″ tall Illustrator drawing with that level of detail? Insane.

And I really didn’t shrink the finished scale model waaaaaay down so I could Photoshop it into my living room.

No way. I have a life, man!