TV takes pride of place in any accommodation. Some hang a plasma on the wall, others prefer to install it in a special niche. However, the most practical way is considered to be the purchase of a TV table. Furniture manufacturers offer stylish TV cabinets, which help to hide extra wires, fit into the interior and add zest to it. We offer you useful tips, as versatile furniture just for your interior.
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The advantages of thumbs
Under the TV-cabinet means a fairly wide cabinet, characterized by a small height. From year to year, televisions are becoming thinner, along with changing their appearance and bedside tables. Their installation carries a lot of positive points:
- Harmonize with all TV models. Selected furniture will help emphasize the spectacular appearance of the plasma and other advantages.
- Modern cabinets are very compact and fit into the footage of even the smallest room.
- Furniture represented on the market in diversity; It is possible to choose any design, color, style.
- It allows you to store things of compact size, such as magazines, discs, consoles and other trifles.
- The abundance of wires and auxiliary equipment (tuner, router) will be hidden behind the furniture doors.
- Relatively low price.
Such furniture will be able to emphasize all the advantages of the interior.
Modern furniture under the screen helps is a profitable and thoughtful decision, wisely organizing the room and freeing up space. The abundance of forms and materials will enhance the effect of the big screen and will make watching TV with family and friends more enjoyable.
return to menu ↑Materials, shapes and sizes
The cabinet frame consists of two sides, back wall, upper and lower horizons. The durability of the furniture depends on the quality of the materials used. The manufacture of cabinets most often comes from:
- tree massif;
- plastic;
- strained glass;
- wood boards, chipboards;
- lacquered plates;
- metal (acts by itself or combined with other materials).
Wood is a popular material for making
Most of the submissions require additional protection. To do this, apply a layer of enamel, varnish, plastic or film.
One of the positive things when choosing a bedside table is a large variety of shapes.
Consider them before choosing a model:
- Geometrically regular rectangular or square - the most popular type.
- Rounded - the back side remains flat, and the front becomes semicircular.
- The bookcase - several tiers are fastened together by corner posts, the back wall is missing.
- Asymmetric - several sections are displaced in one direction, fastened together by open shelves.
A large variety of models
To purchase a TV cabinet for the size of your room, it is important to choose the dimensions:
- Wide. These are called lockers, the length of which exceeds 1 meter 20 centimeters. The largest of them, designed for spacious living rooms in private houses, reach a length of 3 meters. But their depth and height is quite modest - around 50 centimeters.
- High. Their height reaches approximately 90 centimeters, while the width range is 80-120 centimeters.
- Narrow. The depth of this category of thumbs is 35-45 centimeters. Height is any, most often about 80 centimeters. Width - 60-80 centimeters.
- Low. A depth of 40 centimeters and a height of 30 centimeters are often used as overhead shelves. The width usually reaches 1.4-1.6 meters.
Do not forget about the dimensions before buying a cabinet
Curbstone from the array will look great in a classic interior.
If you add dark glass to a wooden base, you can easily put the furniture in high tech design.
Glass, metal and plastic products fit into the technological design of the room. Smooth lines of the facade and soft luster will make it more youthful, easy and comfortable. Often in such models there are no unnecessary details.
Mirror inserts and light colors of the furniture will fit into small rooms. Visually increase the hall top of the shiny metal. AT child's It will be appropriate for the room to choose ecological material of bright shades.
Hi-tech design
Accommodation Rules
Plasma placement requirements in a room are important in order not to spoil its style. Follow them when choosing a place for the panel:
- A good overview is the main detail for placing the TV table. It should be comfortable to watch, high furniture or decorative trifles (for example, a vase) should not interfere with watching the picture.
- Opposite and on the sides of the screen should not be windows. Natural lighting will interfere with watching a movie, while direct sunlight will significantly harm chromaticity.
- Distance from sex must be at least 100 centimeters for the bedroom and 1 meter and 20 centimeters for the living room. The TV should be at the level of the person sitting eye.
- The distance to the bollard plays an important role. It should be at a distance of not less than 1.70 meters from watching TV. Measure the diagonal of your TV and multiply the number by 4. This will be the desired distance in centimeters.
Avoid windows on the sides of the TV.
Furniture functionality
You must understand for yourself how the bedside table will be used. Do you need shelves for storage, extra space? In the classic version provides direct shelves open and closed.
Additional equipment of modern TV cabinets:
- Wheels. Make the cabinet mobile, allowing you to easily move to any place. However, it deprives it of stability and aesthetics.
- Bracket. The TV is attached to the wall and can be rotated at any angle.
- Backlight. It is easy to mount on the furniture, but you need to be careful: the light should not interfere with viewing.
Thanks to the bracket you can rotate the TV
Dimensions - decide where you want to install the cabinet. According to the position, choose the size of the stand.
Making the choice, pay attention to the following parameters:
- In a large room, you can choose a design of any size that will best cope with the load of your plasma.
- In the living room of medium size (and less than the average) make a choice in favor of a small bedside table, which must be installed along a long wall. Stands will increase its functionality.
- In a very tiny room, install the corner structure.
Small designs for small hotels
Payload is another important parameter. Stable and sturdy nightstand can withstand the load of the TV and are not shelves of things.
Useful volume - the furniture should be equipped with drawers, shelves and other compartments for storing things.
They will help improve the appearance of the room and keep small accessories away from the eyes.
Many shelves for the right things
Mobility - important so that you can easily change the place for the bedside table. For this, many models are equipped with wheels. This is often found in style models. provence.
Varieties
Consider the most common models that are popular. Which is better to choose for your interior?
return to menu ↑Glass Nightstands
In recent years, lockers from glass. The reason is their elegant appearance, compatibility with many interior styles, practicality. However, some believe that glass, on the contrary, is not the best material due to its fragility.
Popular glass models
We will try to dispel this myth and tell the main advantages of glass cabinets. A glass nightstand with a modern TV will effectively complement the modern style, hi-tech and even classic. They will add to your apartment a feeling of lightness and harmony.
Effectively complements the design of the room
Most often there are no sharp corners in them, which is safe if there are children at home.
Their configurations differ in the following parameters:
- open or closed;
- two-level or multi-level;
- transparent or colored.
Glass cabinets are designed as compact and functional as possible in order to occupy as little space in the room as possible. In most models, there are special shelves for additional equipment (for example, a dvd player).
We use for disks, a player and other trifles
Often glass models are combined with chrome metal parts or wood. On a transparent surface, you can apply a pattern or pattern.
Wood
Despite all the delights of fashion, wood is still a popular material for furniture. It is believed that it is more characteristic of the classical style.
Typical classic style
There is some truth in this statement, however, modern wooden nightstands fit perfectly into other areas of design.
- In modern concepts, homogeneous materials are often used. However, fusion styles, modern and loft effectively emphasizes the beauty of the tree. Often products are served in an unusual form. In the loft style can fit a rosewood chest or a homemade rough box of raw boards.
- It is easier to care for wood - it is easy to clean, polish and polish it.Wooden products are easy to create with your own hands from old furniture or boards.
- Wooden bedside tables are very durable - they literally live a hundred years.
Wood furniture more durable
The TV cabinet is made of such wood materials:
- Array. It is characterized by a pronounced woody pattern, but in our time an array of even color is more often used.
- Veneer. A thin slice of wood glue on less expensive material, for example MDF. Externally, the cabinet will not differ from the array, but at the same time it will be much cheaper.
- MDF. It can be pasted over with a decorative film, be laminated, have acrylic spraying, etc. The material is widely used for the production of various furniture due to its strength, moisture resistance and temperature drops. Acrylic panels fit perfectly into the design of a modern living room.
- Chipboard. Inexpensive material that is inferior in strength and durability of the first options, but it looks beautiful.
Laminated MDF - Excellent Material
Modern wooden structures can look like this:
- Outdoor - almost completely made of wood, there are metal or glass elements.
- Cantilever - look great in a modern interior. Most often made of MDF.
- Corner - wooden modules in the corner of the room often look more profitable than metal and glass analogues.
- Rack - for such wooden thumbs, only some detail is performed, for example, the top panel.
The combined version of glass and wood
Narrow
Narrow furniture is chosen for small and spacious living rooms. A model of a bedside table with a width of 25 to 30 centimeters is considered narrow.. Do not worry that in such a narrow cabinet the necessary things will not fit - due to the height and length, everything will fit in there!
Narrow pedestals are of two types:
- Depth 30 centimeters. The optimal size for the "stand" under the TV. Small equipment will be conveniently installed here, there will be areas for storing other items. But if you have a plasma with a curved screen, you will have to look at other models.
- Depth 20-25 centimeters. If the room is very small, you have to choose this size of the bedside table. Sturdy construction and quality materials will be able to withstand weight. But there is almost no room for storage of equipment and various trifles.
Narrow nightstand when there is little space.
Narrow cabinets can also be conditionally divided by height:
- Low - the size from a floor is from 30 to 50 centimeters, are suitable for placement of the plasma panel with the big diagonal. In the Art Nouveau style, lower sofas are provided, so watching TV will be comfortable.
- High - The size of the floor is from 60 to 90 centimeters, resemble a square in shape. Suitable for small TVs in living rooms with high sofa and seating.
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Corner
For a small room you need to place different furniture with the greatest efficiency and convenience for the residents of the house. This will make the corner stand, which frees up the space in the center of the room and involves not relevant side part.
Corner bedside cope with different tasks:
- helps save space;
- expands the functional space (extra shelves are appreciated in a small room);
- complements the interior, emphasizes the style of the room;
- allows you to watch TV from anywhere in the room.
Corner option to save space
Corner cabinets combine the functions of shelves, drawers and cabinets.
They come in such varieties:
- Triangular - the walls are connected to form a triangle. Suitable for large screen sizes. It is believed that triangular cabinets take space, so they can not "stand up" in every room.Very deep shelves are suitable only for dimensional items. Keep small parts on them is not convenient.
- Pentagonal - fit in a room of small size. They are a regular triangle with cut corners, which will take up little space in comparison with the first type.
- L-shaped - their facade is connected to the upper horizon in the shape of the letter “G”. Bedside tables significantly save square meters and look elegant in a modern interior.
- Trapezoid - They look much lighter than triangular cabinets, but they take up the same amount of space. A space is formed at the back, which helps regulate the ventilation of equipment. Shelves also have a smaller depth than in triangular counterparts, which allows them to be used with great convenience.
- Radius - triangular tables equipped with a rounded facade. The most unusual model that fits into the room of modern style. Does not seem large or bulky, suitable for storage.
Triangular model for the TV
Color is completely dependent on your preference.
We recommend choosing bright colors of angular thumbs. This may be natural wood of light wood, plastic, painted wood. This way you do not “steal” the space from the room.
Light furniture will not steal free space.
Thus, the need to use corner cabinets arises when:
- The walls are occupied by large furniture - sideboards, cabinets, book shelves. There is no possibility of a wide plasma between it.
- The small space of the room does not allow the use of the necessary furnishings, because you have to use all free corners.
- I would like to create a separate "corner" for plasma, emphasize the bright style of the living room.
- The desire to bring non-standard solutions to the room design.
Compact, convenient and practical
Color selection: white thumbs
Whatever the models of bedside tables, it is very important to choose the color. To do this, consider the following factors.:
- room style;
- a range of furniture objects that are next to the cabinet;
- the color of the body of the TV.
In many styles, including minimalist, Scandinavian or fusion, it is better to choose light models. In fact, when I come home, I want to rest and restore my strength. Furniture in bright colors contributes to rest, helps to create a feeling of comfort.
White furniture promotes rest
The white color of the furniture looks stylish, concise, interesting. It is successfully combined practically with all types of wall and floor finishes, it goes well with other colors.
White nightstands are made of various materials:
- Tree. Known for its durability and environmental friendliness. Beautiful and natural cabinets for plasma fit well with many styles, but they look cumbersome. Has a high price.
- Plywood, MDF, chipboard. Among the advantages are a variety of texture and decorative elements, low price in comparison with wood. Non-resistant to moisture.
- Plastic. The low cost and variety of models do not limit the choice. They are light and not dimensional, but not resistant to mechanical damage.
Go well with different styles.
The main advantage of white shade stands is that they will always be in trend. The white color emphasizes the beauty of the shades of the walls and floor, visually increase the space.
Is very popular
Bedside tables do it yourself
Everyone tries to find a model for their room, but the stores do not always provide enough choice. One bedside table may not fit the size, the other color, the third overall style. Faced with such a problem, you can make the locker yourself.
To do this, select any bedside table design and material with which you can work. We offer you to make a floor stand of wood, on which you can install a TV of any size and weight. You do not have to make holes in the wall, install fixtures, etc. - in case of any rearrangement of furniture, you can easily set the nightstand to another place.
Do it yourself
Drawing
To implement our project, first of all you need to create a drawing. If you are doing this for the first time, use the ready-made layout. We offer you a project for a fairly spacious living room, which will allow you to install even a plasma with the largest diagonal.
Materials
For the manufacture of the structure we need:
- an array of timber - 30 millimeters in thickness and 42 centimeters in width; will be used for countertops;
- an array of timber - 20 millimeters in thickness and 30 centimeters in width, needed for shelves; can be replaced with a cut board;
- timber size 50 * 50 mm, needed for the cross;
- The bar size of 30 * 30 millimeters will be used for longitudinal jumpers;
- board size 30 * 80 millimeters, for the manufacture of crossbars and legs;
- screws; screwdriver;
- a circular saw;
- drill;
- plane;
- pencil, tape measure.
Choose a design to your taste
Frame assembly
- It is necessary to cut the legs. In our model there are six of them and the height of each is 72 centimeters. It is convenient to immediately cut and cross, the length of which is equal to 28 centimeters. From one meter of wood we get one detail.
- The legs fasten a bar size of 30 * 30 millimeters. Prepare twelve such blanks, their length should be 75 cm.
- Attach jumpers with screws. Drill holes of the required sizes. Screw the screws to the legs to the vertical at an angle of 45 degrees.
Option that does not take up much space
Shelves
You can make the lower and middle shelf both from an array of timber and from a board. The width of the latter should be equal to 30 centimeters. Cut 1.5 centimeters of wood, using a planer, trim it to fit the planned width.
Their length should be 170 centimeters. Attach the shelves with screws to the longitudinal bridges.
Crossbars
Now we begin to install the crossbars. They are necessary in order to bind the front and back of our design. When we made the legs, we already prepared the necessary elements in order to save material. Now you must take two crossbars and attach them to each side of the frame.
Now you have to create the middle crossbars. Saw them from a bar, their length should be equal to the width of our shelves, that is, be 28 centimeters. Attach to two edges using bolts.
The combination of color does not hurt the decor
Side crosses
The strength and stability of the future cabinet will be presented with crosses. If you take measurements as accurately as possible, it will be easy to make crosses with your own hands.
- Take a bar, the side of which is 50 mm, saw off two pieces. Their length, calculated by the Pythagorean theorem, is 66.2 centimeters.
- Put them on each other, set the distance between the inner corners. Make grooves in each piece. Their depth should be equal to half the side of the beam. For clarity, use the scheme of figure number 6.
- Made crossings insert into the design. In the place of the joints, insert the screws, make holes at an angle. Thus the screw will not come out from the other side. Use long screws, their length should be about 70 millimeters.
Ivory color only adds to the charm and beauty of the furniture.
Table top
We turn to the final stage of creating a wooden bedside table.
If you have edged boards, you can use them. Pre-treat them with a plane and sandpaper for a flat surface. Attach the worktop to the formation with screws. This way you can easily lift the cabinet for the top.
Design
You got a fully assembled locker. Let's proceed to the design of its appearance. First of all, close all the holes with putty. In order for it to acquire its unique appearance, it needs to be painted. You can choose for this purpose the shade of "wenge", which slightly dims the wood. At the same time the structure of the wood will be visible.
You can cover the tree with white paint - this design will fit into any design. Consider the style of your room and make it the most harmonious. You may notice that the design of this bedside table can be useful not only to install a TV, but also to store things. And you can combine these two solutions and make it universal.
TV table
Do it yourself
