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How to Build a Television Cabinet

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This is how I went about making the TV cabinet from some cheap non-structural pine
and some pallet wood.

This is what the mounted TV cabinet
looks like finished.

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Side access door to get to all the wires
for the TV and the speakers,
and it also holds the DVD player.


I started by running a length of
timber at 45º

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and then I moved on to a simple frame,
keeping everything level as I go.

These two chocks get attached at the
top and the bottom
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to keep both of my vertical pieces
evenly spaced.

For this piece that sits up against the wall,

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I set my circular saw at 45º and run it down the length of the piece of timber.

I attached a support piece to
keep everything square and solid.

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I marked and cut out a channel for where the plastic strip in the ceiling sits.

I make several cuts,
just moving the speed square up
a little bit each time.

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And then I got some help chiselling it out.

Just a bit of a look to see how the frame is coming together.

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Then I moved on to making
the bracket for the TV.


I used a piece of angle iron
and flat bar,

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drilled some holes,

and then welded it together.
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Center the television into the frame.


Moving onto the speakers.
I just built a simple box for them
out of pallet palings.

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For the frames around the speaker,
I made a paper template and then traced that on

Drilled a few holes to fit
the jigsaw blade down

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and then roughly cut out the center.

I cleaned everything up
with the trim router
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I used some off cut black shade-cloth
for behind the frame


and attached it with contact adhesive.
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After it dried I then cut off the excess.

The base speaker has a 22mm thick MDF, so I attached the palings straight in to that.

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I made a cardboard template and transferred those lines on to the palings.


cut it out with the jigsaw and then smoothed it up with the 80 grit flappy disc on the angle grinder.
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I used the flappy disc to smooth out the larger rough spots on the palings.

and then moved to the 120 grit on the sander.
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Gave it a quick coat of stain


then attached all the palings.
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For the hinge up door,
I attached some backing strips which are just some trimmed down pallet palings.


I then put on two little latches
and added a handle.

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For the bass speaker side,
I cut my angles at 22.5º
and for the TV side I cut those angles at 45º.


Now to cover in the front face.
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The frame corners are cut at 45º angles.

The back of the frame is dodgy looking,
but strong.
( I was so over this build ).
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I grinded out this channel because the TV protrudes a bit along the front edge.


And then I gave it a coat of paint.
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I attached the frame around the TV.
And then I also covered the sides of the cabinet.


And it is done.
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These are the set of tall vertical drawers
that I built underneath the T.V.

If you felt like checking those out.
DIY Tall Vertical Drawers

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