A barn door TV stand if you are into that kind of thing
First off, lets be honest; this is flat pack furniture and you will have to put it together. We bought this so we could place our receiver and turn table into the unit, thus keeping the top spartan and clean. The box when it arrived was quite heavy. This is due to the particle board it is made of. Once I hauled it into my house, I set about putting it together, I Soon I realized this was better a project for two, and enlisted the help of my wife.
My wife is type A and I am, well I am not. Im the kind of guy who always has extra fasteners left over when the job is done. No really, I have an old glass jar of wayward fasteners that likely were intended to be in furniture Ive built over the years. Anyway after the better part of an hour we had this monstrosity assembled, and oh what a beauty. Shure it wasnt made of wood, not in the traditional sense, and some of the finishes were a bit, what shall I say, cheap but there it stood, white giant and ready for use.
I got down to rerouting my home theater with the hopes of putting the receiver inside the cabinet, indeed that is why I bought it. Alas, the shelf depth was about two inches short, so my Denon 7.1 receiver would intfact not go inside. Neither would my turntable. In fact this stand failed to do anything I bought it for, with the exception of holding my albums. I should clarify my record albums, not photo albums, which it would hold if I had any. Now before you go on about the antiquated record albums, one just cant get the warmth and life of older music from CDs or mp3s, something to do with the difficulty of encoding albums to digital, but I digress.
So for several years weve had this TV stand with its barn door styling, which is very trendy now, but I imagine will define the 20s much like octagonal side tables did the 1970s. Yikes. Our center shelf houses a blu/ray player and two storage boxes. As for the top, it is populated by the receiver, turn table and the HTPC laptop. In the end, this stand solved nothing. But it has a barn door look, if you are into that sort of thing.
A barn door TV stand if you are into that kind of thing
First off, lets be honest; this is flat pack furniture and you will have to put it together. We bought this so we could place our receiver and turn table into the unit, thus keeping the top spartan and clean. The box when it arrived was quite heavy. This is due to the particle board it is made of. Once I hauled it into my house, I set about putting it together, I Soon I realized this was better a project for two, and enlisted the help of my wife. My wife is type A and I am, well I am not. Im the kind of guy who always has extra fasteners left over when the job is done. No really, I have an old glass jar of wayward fasteners that likely were intended to be in furniture Ive built over the years. Anyway after the better part of an hour we had this monstrosity assembled, and oh what a beauty. Shure it wasnt made of wood, not in the traditional sense, and some of the finishes were a bit, what shall I say, cheap but there it stood, white giant and ready for use. I got down to rerouting my home theater with the hopes of putting the receiver inside the cabinet, indeed that is why I bought it. Alas, the shelf depth was about two inches short, so my Denon 7.1 receiver would intfact not go inside. Neither would my turntable. In fact this stand failed to do anything I bought it for, with the exception of holding my albums. I should clarify my record albums, not photo albums, which it would hold if I had any. Now before you go on about the antiquated record albums, one just cant get the warmth and life of older music from CDs or mp3s, something to do with the difficulty of encoding albums to digital, but I digress. So for several years weve had this TV stand with its barn door styling, which is very trendy now, but I imagine will define the 20s much like octagonal side tables did the 1970s. Yikes. Our center shelf houses a blu/ray player and two storage boxes. As for the top, it is populated by the receiver, turn table and the HTPC laptop. In the end, this stand solved nothing. But it has a barn door look, if you are into that sort of thing.