How to make a TV stand with your own hands
Televisions are becoming smaller. Models TVs make it easy to mount them on the walls, on special brackets. Despite all the modern interior solutions, the TV stand does not lose its relevance.
Not always the interior itself contributes to the possibility of wall fastening. This can be hindered by the window opening or the materials of which the walls are made, which do not allow fixing the bracket. In addition, the functionality of the TV table allows you to place on it a variety of equipment or other items.
Content
- 1 The advantages of the handcrafted nightstand
- 2 Draw a drawing of the future nightstand
- 3 Choosing the best materials for work
- 4 We prepare tools for work
- 5 Step-by-step instructions for making a bedside table
- 6 Making a long cabinet under the TV with your own hands
- 7 Customize the cabinet through the decor
- 8 VIDEO: TV stand with your own hands
- 9 50 photo design ideas do-it-yourself TV stand
The advantages of the handcrafted nightstand
Each customer draws for himself an ideal model that will not only fit into the interior in terms of dimensions, but will also correspond to it in terms of color and style. A wide selection of furniture products, including TV cabinets, allows you to purchase, it would seem, any model. Faced, however, with the specific task of choosing a person often faces the fact that it does not fit the size, color, design. This factor is pushing many people to start making furniture with their own hands.
A TV stand made by hand is quite simple. To do this, you just need to choose the right model, focusing on your professional level. The choice of material for the manufacture of the structure is also crucial. Some materials make it easy and convenient to work with them even for beginners, while others require not only skills, but also special tools for processing. Assembling a TV stand with your hands requires scrupulousness and a correctly built phased scheme of mounting parts.
Having collected a TV stand with your own hands you can get not only a unique design, but also significantly save on the purchase of the finished model.
Draw a drawing of the future nightstand
For beginners of furniture craftsmen and lovers, it is best to use ready-made drawings for the bedside tables. A lot of options can be found on specialized sites. Choosing a drawing it is necessary to be oriented not only on the final result, but also on the complexity of manufacturing and assembly.An important factor is the material recommended for manufacturing.
Some designs require certain materials that may not suit the master for price or durability. For example, models with narrow worktops and shallow depths of the bollard can withstand a lot of weight when they are made of solid wood. The use of particle board in such cases will drastically reduce, perhaps, the permissible rate of load on such a bedside table. Therefore, it is extremely important to assess the weight and width of the TV that will stand on it. It is also necessary to remember about the additional accessories that will be needed when using the TV, it can be speakers, video player and more.
Often, a TV stand includes CDs, magazines, newspapers and decor items. This should also be considered before you start the drawing with your own hands.
Choosing the best materials for work
A variety of materials allows you to make both very cheap and simple models, and to aim at chic. Not every TV stand can be made with your own hands using any available material. Some designs involve only wood or only plywood. There are more versatile designs that can be made by hand from existing scrap or residues from other furniture.
In the manufacture of cabinets can be used:
- MDF.
- DSP.
- Plywood.
- Timber.
- Wood, in the form of glued panels.
- Array
Also make the cabinet can be partially made of glass or decorative plastic. These materials are most often used for countertops and door furniture.
Chipboard is the most unpretentious option for work, it does not require any special tools for cutting, or grinding machines. It is easily cut and processed. Its clear advantage is the price.
When buying wood should pay attention to its quality. An important nuance is the absence of defects and dryness of the purchased material. Wet wood can be deformed indoors, thereby ruining the finished product.
We prepare tools for work
You can make a bedside table with your own jigsaw. Some craftsmen do without it, ordering sawing according to the drawing when buying material. The assembly of furniture with your own hands still requires the following professional and non-professional tools:
- Pencil, marker or other writing subject.
- Thick cardboard for the manufacture of patterns.
- Ruler and tape measure.
- A compass, if some of the blanks will have a round shape or rounded edges.
- Jigsaw with files of the required size.
- Clamps when gluing parts.
- Glue.
- Tape for trimming trimmed edges.
- Screws, screws, confirmats.
- Grinding machine.
- Drawers for bedside cabinets.
The list can be cut or expanded depending on the complexity of the product and the materials selected.
Step-by-step instructions for making a bedside table
- Preparing a drawing. We take a ready and proven drawing, or we develop it ourselves, taking into account the dimensions of the TV and its weight.
- Making patterns of all elements.This stage will allow you to accurately calculate the material consumption and not make a fatal mistake.
- Cutting materials.
- Grind cut edges. When working with wood, it will be necessary to grind not only cuts, but also other surfaces.
- Paste the edges with tape. This stage is necessary when using chipboard material. For gluing the tape will need an iron and a soft cloth.
- We make the assembly of the parts found. Assembly is always carried out according to one scheme. Start with the tabletop. Legs or side backs are attached to it. Then screwed the bottom shelf. After the general construction is assembled, we fill the cabinet with additional details - medium shelves. The back back and doors are mounted in the penultimate place. In the presence of boxes, provision should be made for securing the guides on the inner sides of the side walls.
- The final stage of assembly is the attachment of the legs, rollers or pad of the heels.
Making a long cabinet under the TV with your own hands
For the manufacture of cabinets with their own hands, we take the laminated chipboard of the color you like. Width of a chipboard of 16 mm or 18 mm.
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Required details:
- Two sheets size 1600x454 mm for the table top and the bottom of the product.
- Three walls 545x454 mm.
- Shelf 767x454 mm.
- The back wall of MDF 1600x545 mm.
- Two drawers with a size of 759x223 mm.
- 4 decorative pens.
- 4 legs.
- 4 thrust bearings.
In addition, you will need screws, screws and four guides for further fixing on them manufactured boxes. Between the drawers it is desirable to make a shelf of MDF, the size of 767x454 mm.
For the manufacture of boxes will need two pieces of MDF 750x445 mm, which will go to create the bottom shuflyady. The side walls of the boxes will require four pieces of chipboard size 450x220 mm. And two pieces of chipboard size 755x220 mm, which will form the back wall of the box. Assembling the drawer begins with the connection of the side and rear walls. Then the bottom is fixed from MDF. The last element is screwed front part, which is pre-fixed decorative handles.
It is quite difficult to make a nightstand with drawers, so this model should be taken only by craftsmen who already have certain skills in assembling furniture.
The same model can be assembled without using shuflyad. The second compartment can be left without a partition in order to be able to put there more voluminous elements of technology or decor. Or it can be made identical to the first compartment. The inner wall should not be removed, because it gives the structure additional stability, not allowing it to bend under the weight of the TV.
Customize the cabinet through the decor
Not every material requires finishing. Laminated plywood looks quite self-sufficient and without additional decoration. Chipboard has taped decorative surfaces and in addition to pasting cut edges will not require painting. An array of wood, perhaps the most fastidious in this sense. It should always be primed and treated with stain. This coating helps to emphasize the wood pattern and protect the wood from dullness, dust and moisture.If desired, the tree can be painted or varnished. Wooden elements can also be exposed to the decor in the form of works of artistic carving on the outer walls or table top. Any materials can be painted, covered with a film for decoration, apply stencils.
Often the decor of TV tables is to combine various materials and decorate it with glass pieces. Glass used should not be less than 8 millimeters thick. You can use a clear, dark, mirror glass. Stained glass doors look beautiful, although these designs are more fragile than solid sheets of glass.
VIDEO:TV cabinet with your own hands
50 photo design ideas do-it-yourself TV stand
Why do it yourself, if you can buy a cheap new one? On the same Avito, I recently bought, people post that they did not fit, and I took)) And the torment is less))
And you can eat in the canteen. Why cook at home
Yeah, and even with our salaries, cook at home will be cheaper)))
Well, firstly, you yourself will make the furniture the size you want, who else but you will collect your furniture for yourself is better because the build quality and the models sold are very doubtful, thirdly the choice of materials, colors from which you can assemble a wardrobe or a bedside table is diverse.
Andrey, I completely agree with you.