Thank you, Altec-Lansing, for giving up on Chromecast and going with Alexa, because otherwise, I could never have afforded a whole-home sound system. Since you aimed too high (Sonos-killer? Really?), and Walmart had these for $21 if I knew where to look, I have music everywhere! What I didn’t have in the hallway, though, was a place to put the speaker.

Piece of cedar left over from roost houses I built a couple of years ago, plus some really half-assed sanding, a coat of Killz, and a couple of light coats of spray paint.

These little brackets were under three bucks each; P picked them up for me at Walmart. They were already antique white, but I gave them a light coat so they’d exactly match the shelf.

Speaker on its shelf, so I can rock out all around the house; even in the hallway!

Still needs to be painted once I get to Sherwin-Williams and get “Biltmore Buff” paint mixed, but I found some small cord cover on Amazon to cover the ugly black cord. I actually bought 5 pieces, 5′ long each, which I think were just under $5 each, and they shipped each one in a separate box. Shipping alone would have been more than the things cost! Whatever…the cord looks better, and eventually, I’ll get it painted to match the wall.