TV stand with own hands

As soon as the house has a brand new TV, we immediately think about how and where to place it, so that it would be more convenient and comfortable to watch your favorite films and TV shows. There are two options for placing this technique: put on a nightstand or hang on brackets to the wall. Of course, if there is not enough space in the room, then it would be more logical to use the second option. And in the event that there is enough free space, it is better to resort to the first variant of the TV placement. You can even try to make an original and stylish stand yourself. The made cabinet for TV with their own hands will not only decorate your house, but also guaranteed to fit into the overall interior of the house. In this article, we will consider the advantages of using such furniture and the options for its independent production.

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Advantages of using bedside tables for TVs

This stand is really a very useful thing with lots of advantages:

• It is possible to install any model of LCD TV, despite its weight and dimensions.
• Its installation does not require drilling in the wall any new holes and fastenings, respectively - the appearance of the room will not be affected at all. If suddenly you decide to make a reshuffle, then the bedside table can easily be rearranged to another location.
• With its appearance, there are additional possibilities of placing on the shelves of such necessary items as a DVD player and a router for distributing Wi-Fi.

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Drawing features of the TV stand for the TV

Naturally, you need to prepare everything you need beforehand, then you will get the perfect TV stand. It's not enough to create blueprints and schemes with your own hands, so it's better to download them from the Internet.

We suggest using the simplest design of a wooden pedestal, which turns out to be decent enough in length, due to this, it can fit a TV of any model, with any diagonal. Let's take a closer look at the thumbnail layout that we will collect ourselves.

Design - Features of

Its main design features are:

• Since it will be quite long, you will have to install it not on four, but on six legs, and two of them as additional will be located in the center of the design.
• To make the framework as durable as possible, not the usual corners of metal will be used, but the left and right legs will be connected together by a special cross from the bar.
• To make the nightstand more functional and stable, it will be complemented by two shelves.

Dimensions

In accordance with the drawing, the dimensions of the bedside table will be as follows:

• height - 75 cm;
• width - 42 cm;
• length - 186 cm.

Important! In principle, the height of the product can be selected individually, based on where you plan to be while watching TV.The above parameters were taken in accordance with the standard height of modern beds. But if you plan to install equipment in the living room opposite the sofa, you can slightly increase the height of the cabinet.

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What materials and tools are needed to make the nightstand?

To build a table for the TV with your own hands according to the chosen project, you need to prepare such materials:

• For the production of a countertop - an array of glued beams 42 cm wide and 30 mm thick.
• For shelves, an edging board of specified dimensions or a block of timber with a width of 30 cm and a thickness of 10 to 20 mm.
• For the manufacture of the crosspiece bar size 50 to 50 mm.
• For bridges between the legs of the beam size of 30 to 30 mm.
• For cross-pieces and legs the board is 80 by 30 mm.
• Screws.

You will also need such construction tools:

• Screwdriver.
• Circular Saw.
• Drill.
• Plane. Pencil and tape measure.

Important! To make a curbstone should only from completely dried materials, because the timber and boards with a natural level of moisture eventually crack up and there are gaps in the finished products. Because of this, the nightstand can become outwardly unattractive, deform and become fragile.

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Features of the cabinet for the TV

Now we will look in detail how to assemble a cabinet for a TV.And this process is divided into such stages:

1. Assembly of the frame of the bedside table.
2. Installation of additional shelves.
3. Mounting of crossmembers.
4. Manufacturing of side crossbars.
5. Mounting the table top.
6. Designer's design of bedside tables.

It is necessary to carefully and accurately perform all actions in order to obtain a reliable and high-quality product.

Features of the frame assembly:

1. The most important step in the preparation of the frame is the manufacture of six legs. In accordance with the drawing, their height will be 72 cm. Cut them better together with the cross-bars, which fasten the end and rear walls in the next stages.
2. Their length will be 28 cm, that is, from one meter billet we get one foot and one crosspiece.
3. After the legs are ready, it will be necessary to fasten them with crosspieces longitudinal, and for this we use a beam of 30 to 30 mm.
4. In total we need to prepare 12 pieces, the length of each will be equal to 72 cm.
5. Both the legs and the jumpers are attached using screws that need to be screwed at an angle of 45 degrees, and for this you need to drill the required hole size in advance.

Important! Please note that the screws of the screws should be completely hidden in the surface of the jumpers, which will allow you to hide the hats and holes with a special filler.

We install shelves

We can make the middle and lower shelves from a wide board or glued timber array:

1. It is necessary to cut pieces of 1.5 cm and adjust the boards with a plane to the desired width.
2. The length of the shelves will correspond to the length of the bedside table itself, but minus twice the width of the legs. That is, 170 cm.
3. Then you need to attach the shelves to the longitudinal jumper screws.

Installation of the

crossbars The next, no less important step, without which you will not get a reliable TV stand with your own hands - the installation of crossbars, which perform the function of connecting parts between the front and rear parts of the frame.

We prepared them at the first stage of the edging board during the pruning of the legs. It remains to simply screw in two pieces with bolts on each side. Then you need to saw off two pieces of timber with a width of 30 mm. Their length will be equal to the width of the shelves, that is 28 cm. The sawn-off elements need to be attached at the edges to the legs using bolts.

Preparing the crosses

If you want the TV stand with your own hands, manufactured according to our project, to be as stable and strong as possible, then you must make two crossings. There is nothing complicated, the main thing is to accurately make all the measurements:

1. It is necessary to saw off two pieces from the bar with a side of 50 mm for each side. In this case their length will be 66.2 cm.
2. Then we put these bars on top of each other, using a pencil we make a marking, setting the distance between the inner corners.
3. We make grooves in depth in the workpieces according to the obtained contours, while their size will be equal to half the side of the bar.
4. The assembled crossings are inserted into the frame, using screws to fasten them to the junctions so that they enter a few centimeters deep into the middle shelf.
5. Then drill holes at an angle strictly parallel to the central axis of the cross, directly into which the screw will be screwed.
6. We fasten the crossings to the legs.

Installation of table tops:

1. It is better to use a finished wooden massif as a table top to make it perfectly smooth, and do not have to process it further.
2. If you do not have such an option, then you can make a table top of several fairly wide edging boards, which you will need to pre-process the plane.
3. Mount it better with screws so you can safely raise the nightstand and move.

Important! Do not forget to leave the recesses for the hats, as in all the previous stages.

Design of the finished bedside table

So, all the most important stages are passed and the product is ready. But there are a few secrets that you can use to get a TV cabinet in a modern style. You can originalize it with your own hands. The most important thing to do is to cover all holes with a special filler. On top of the product can be painted, for example, to darken the tree to get a classic woody tint. The emerging structure of the tree will still reflect the naturalness of the given interior and distinguish it from similar bedside tables sold in furniture stores.

This concludes all the work, we hope you got a great TV stand for the TV, and the fact that you made it with your own hands only adds to you the pluses in the treasury of your work on arranging your own home.