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Can't find the right living room furniture.
Elvenshae
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Okay, this one's pretty prosaic compared to the usual life-altering stuff, but here's the thing.
I've got a new house, and in this cool new house we've got a mount on the wall for our main TV, above the fireplace. The builders ran HDMI cables through the walls, down from where the TV mounts to a plate helpfully off to the side. That way, you can put all your boxes and stuff over there out of the way, and the place where the TV mounts and the mantle below are nice and clean-looking, etc.
I can't find a good cabinet to put over by the wall plate, so that I can put the cable box, PS3, etc., in something rather than just laying them on the floor (or, as they are now, the coffee table that's preventing my 8-month-old from crawling over and pulling all the CDs out of their shelves for fun).
Someone her must have a similar set-up; what do you recommend?
I've got a new house, and in this cool new house we've got a mount on the wall for our main TV, above the fireplace. The builders ran HDMI cables through the walls, down from where the TV mounts to a plate helpfully off to the side. That way, you can put all your boxes and stuff over there out of the way, and the place where the TV mounts and the mantle below are nice and clean-looking, etc.
I can't find a good cabinet to put over by the wall plate, so that I can put the cable box, PS3, etc., in something rather than just laying them on the floor (or, as they are now, the coffee table that's preventing my 8-month-old from crawling over and pulling all the CDs out of their shelves for fun).
Someone her must have a similar set-up; what do you recommend?
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But if you're set, the best you'll probably get is a standard entertainment unit that isn't too deep. That way it doesn't look as bad on its own against the wall, off to the side. We use a BESTA unit from IKEA in our living room:
http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/S69062929/#/S29062530
If you can't tell from the above, most of my furniture comes from Bernie & Phyl's or Jordan's, two Massachusetts area furniture chains.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/49/01/4d/49014d6c029145d7e0f334c67ff47299.jpg
I've also been "chastised" for the tv over the fireplace, but it works and you use the space you have.
The trick with that setup is they ran the wires behind the drywall.
That's rather clever ... Thanks for the suggestion!
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
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I have the same setup with the TV over the fireplace, where do you get those specific shelves from? I've been having problems finding floating shelves that deep.
We have some similar sort of unit from Ikea -- one nice thing is that one of the doors has a glass front, which means that the stuff inside there is still remote-control-able, but doesn't collect lots of dust. (and if you have a kid at crawling age, it'll keep their fingers out a while longer, too). This one, roughly speaking: http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/S19140171/#/S19140171
Floating shelves usually aren't that deep because hitting the far edge can create a lot of torque and rip them out of the wall.
I seen a pie safe size cabinet (easiest description of the size) used to store all the electronics. It had glass windows instead of the metal.
I figured out how I could make shelves like those in the picture (and I really really like the ones in the picture), but it would involve getting brackets like these. Those are attached to the side of the stud, within the drywall.
It's more like $64 for the length I would need, and that's about what ready-made floating shelves go for that are a lot more shallow.
Permanent, yeah, but I like permanent.