Bridge Airport Extreme to Airport Express (primary)

Hello,
This may be a sort of silly question since most people use their Airport Extreme as the primary router and the Airport Express bridged but right now I am wondering if it is possible to have my Airport Express hooked up to the DSL line, etc. and have this picked up by the Airport Extreme to be a secondary router.
The reason I am doing this is because there is no phone jack beside my desk where I have several hard drives and a printer to be attached to the Airport Extreme and accessed wirelessly. Therefore, I want to put the Airport Express just across the room to be the only thing plugged in so that I don't have a printer/hard drives just randomly in the middle of the room.
Can someone tell me if this is possible and if so, if it will affect my internet performance as well as the power in terms of distance of the Airport Extreme?
Thanks!

Yes that is possible. It doesn't matter which one is the main base station and which one is the remote base station.

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    Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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