Okay I needed to get this publish out method sooner however ya know, life occurred. So it’s lastly right here for you right this moment and I can’t wait to share all the small print on our attractive Customized DIY TV Stand with Sliding Doorways!
I’m calling it customized DIY as a result of it was a mix of each. I’ll begin from the start in case there are some new individuals round right here who didn’t comply with together with my One Room Challenge room makeover.
It began after I received an Arhaus catalog within the mail and fell in love with this Wall Unit.
It’s so stunning isn’t it? Besides the value tag was not as stunning. Even on sale, it’s not one thing we had been going to put money into once we knew we may doubtlessly DIY it ourselves. I requested Dan what he thought and naturally he mentioned “oh ya positive that can be straightforward” as a result of he may by no means admit that he couldn’t do one thing :-p
So my plan was to succeed in out to an area lumber firm, Baird Brothers, to see if they’d simply present some wooden for us to construct it. I needed to verify we had been utilizing good, high quality wooden because it’s such a big piece.
They agreed to offering the wooden they usually began drawing up some plans for me. After some backwards and forwards that is what we ended up with.
PLANS FOR CUSTOM DIY TV STAND WITH SLIDING DOORS
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As soon as these had been finalized, I had to select some wooden. I selected to go together with cherry plywood. Baird Brothers was initially going to stain the wooden and simply minimize it to measurement for us, however their staining course of takes time and we couldn’t wait since we needed to get this completed in time for the ORC reveal.
They gave me some items of various woods to take house and stain myself to see which I preferred greatest and cherry ended up being excellent for the darkish stain I needed to make use of.
As soon as they received began on the venture and started slicing the wooden, they realized it would simply be simpler in the event that they put it collectively for us too – to which we mentioned YES PLEASE. We had been already crunched on time with all the opposite initiatives we took on so this was a welcome shock.
In order that they had been going to assemble, the underside base and the 2 bookshelves after which we had been going to must stain all of it, connect all the cupboard doorways, connect and set up the barn door {hardware}, set up all the opposite {hardware}, placed on a again and add legs. Nonetheless A LOT of labor.
They delivered all the pieces when it was completed which was THE BEST DAY EVER.
That is the underside base.
Listed here are the bookcases.
And the sliding doorways.
I’m not going to lie I used to be SO nervous to begin staining it. I needed it to be the proper colour and it took numerous trial and error and mixing stains.
The successful combo ended up being ONE COAT OF PROVINCIAL AND THEN ONE COAT OF DARK WALNUT.
I started working staining in our storage. As you may see on prime of the bottom piece, they put two items of wooden the place the bookshelves had been going to be to assist them keep in place. We screwed them in too after all but it surely was good to have these as a information.
So.a lot.stain.
As soon as all the pieces was dry, I utilized this wipe on poly. I exploit an outdated shirt or sock which works nice.
Now that that half was completed – we had to determine the kind of legs we needed on it. I might have been completely nice with it being flat on the bottom, however we have now an air vent on the ground on the wall the place it was going so we would have liked it to be raised a bit.
I needed one thing easy however sturdy sufficient to carry up the load of all of it. Baird Brothers gave us some 2x2s to make use of so we ended up slicing these and making these. We really made 4 complete and used the kreg jig to pocket gap them collectively.
Then I used this rust-oleum spray paint to color them.
The very last thing we would have liked to do earlier than we introduced all of the items inside and assembled it was to connect the legs. I apologize for not having any higher photographs of this as a result of I forgot to take them whereas it was exterior. So under you may type of see however I’ll clarify it too.
Principally we screwed in a 2×4 at every spot we needed a leg to go. Then we pocket holed the leg to the two×4 after which screwed in a 1×2 on both aspect of every leg for some further help.
ASSEMBLING THE DIY TV UNIT WITH SLIDING DOORS
We introduced within the base piece after which we introduced in every bookshelf and set them on prime. As I discussed above, as soon as the bookshelves had been in place, we screwed them into the bottom utilizing darkish screws so you may’t see them.
The following step was attaching a protracted piece of wooden throughout the highest that we may connect the barn door monitor to. Our piece of wooden is 5″ extensive.
That is the sliding barn door hardware that we purchased on Amazon. I initially needed hidden {hardware} just like the one from Arhaus, however I couldn’t discover any on-line that will help the load of the doorways we had.
The one factor we needed to do was trim the size of it…which we referred to as in my FIL to do. He used his multi-purpose oscillating instrument with a blade meant for slicing metallic.
As soon as that was completed, Dan hooked up the monitor.
Voila! Now as you may see there is no such thing as a again to it but. I assumed this was one thing they’d included within the plans however they really didn’t. However Baird Brothers was so accommodating and drove again out with a large sheet of plywood for us to make use of. We simply screwed it into the again.
The following step was to connect the cupboard doorways and set up all of the {hardware}. Baird Brothers gave us all of the Euro hinges and drilled the holes for them which was one other wonderful factor they did for us.
All of the brass {hardware} got here from Emtek. We used the Freestone Finger Pulls and the Brisbane Pulls.
The very final thing we did was construct a little bit shelf behind the sliding doorways for the television to sit down on and to place our cable field and a speaker. We had been going to cover them in one of many cupboards however didn’t assume that far upfront and as soon as we had this factor in place, we weren’t going to have the ability to transfer it to get to all of the plugs again there and drill the holes we would have liked to.
We struggled sufficient because it was getting all the pieces else plugged in :-p
Phew, I feel that’s it! This factor was a BEAST to work on and positively took up probably the most of our time through the One Room Challenge but it surely was so value it. It’s a complete present stopper and I LOVE that it hides our tv. Right here’s a have a look at it with it open.
I’m sorry that I don’t have extra particular step-by-step plans since Baird Brothers did numerous the work as properly, however hopefully that is useful! You may as well be on the look out for Jen Woodhouse’s plans coming quickly as a result of she’s constructing her personal model of this man too! And she or he’s insanely proficient so I do know it’s going to be wonderful!
An unlimited thanks to Baird Brothers for going above and past and serving to us convey this man to life!