#Tv cover wall mount tv#
You can build a beautiful rustic looking frame around your TV using old fencing. Use the the navigational buttons to navigate. These ingenious TV disguises are both beautiful and practical and the best part is you can do them all yourself and most of them take very little time and just a few supplies that you may already have on hand. There are many ways to add a bit of elegance and glamour to your home without spending a lot of time or money. Whether you want to hide your TV away at times or you just want to spruce up how it looks in general, we have found 10 genius ways that you can disguise it.įrom building a cabinet to hide the TV completely to simply putting a DIY frame around it, you can make that television look like you spent a fortune on it, even if you bought it at a yard sale. The medium-duty slides hold 75 pounds and the finished cover is about 25 pounds so it should be strong enough to hold the weight.While you may be very proud of your flat screen TV, there may come a time when you prefer it to be a bit more decorative than it actually is. If we were to make this again, we’d use longer drawer slides and go with a heavy-duty slide instead of medium-duty just to be safe. I’m not sure if this will work for a larger TV since we haven’t tried it. Please note that we made this sliding TV cover for a small 24″ television.
#Tv cover wall mount install#
Lawless Hardware made it really easy for us to install the cover since we had to separate the slides and join them back together during installation. The roller bearing and latch system on the drawer slides we got from D. It’s my favorite thing in the room so far…well, next to the shiplap walls and ceiling. I put a coat of Modern Master’s Dead Flat Finish over the entire piece to protect it. I painted the boards the same color as the walls. Jason used 3″ screws to secure the 2″ X 3″s into the studs. It took both of us to hang the cover up so I couldn’t take pictures. The 2″ X 3″ boards will be screwed into the wall to hold the cover. The other side of the drawer slide is mounted on the inside of the cover. Then, he mounted 2 sets of 12″ drawer slides along the edge of the each board. Next, he cut (2) 2″ x 3″ boards the length of the inside of the box.
#Tv cover wall mount plus#
This is the depth of the TV with the mount (4″), plus the thickness of the wood front (1-1/4″), plus an extra 1″ of clearance.
The sides of the box are 6-1/4″ and were glued and then nailed in with 1-1/2″ nails. We hung the TV on the wall so we knew what depth we would need to make the sides of the cover. The gray wash looks blue in this picture but it’s much more muted in person. Jason continued to cut each piece individually and alternated the colors of the boards.
The safest way to do this is with a hand saw. Here’s a tip if you end up with bowed boards: cut mid-depth notches in the center of the board and it’ll flatten out once nailed. He cut the boards at a 45-degree angle on the miter saw one at a time, glued, then nailed them to the plywood with 1″ brad nails.
This would give him the template for the cuts for the pallet boards. Then he marked the center of each side and sectioned it into triangles. Jason marked the center of the rectangle vertically and horizontally. Usually, this is the wood I use for making signs. We tend to hoard wood knowing we’ll find a way to use it one day. It’s funny that even the plywood base of this project is made from reclaimed wood. We cut our 1/2″ plywood to 18″ x 36″ so we’d end up with a rectangle that would make 2 equal squares when cut in half. It truly is a flat finish and there are no visible brush strokes. It’s the closest thing to keeping the look of rustic, bare wood but it’s still protected. One board was beautiful as-is, so I used my new favorite sealer, Modern Master’s Dead Flat Varnish. I used Minwax Fruitwood and Weathered Oak. Lawless Hardwareģ″ wood screws for mounting the cover to the wallįirst, we gathered our pallet boards, sanded them and stained them. Heat-treated pallet boards ( here’s a great article on everything you wanted to know about pallet wood)īrad nails (we used a nail gun and 1″ and 1-1/2″ nails)įull-extension drawer slides from D. (affiliate links are added for your convenience) To make a reclaimed wood sliding TV cover, you’ll need the following: Today’s project is a double-duty functional art piece…with a little hocus-pocus thrown in. I’ve never been good at keeping secrets so I did a pretty good job at not spilling the beans. Out of all the projects we’ve had on our to-do list for the modern farmhouse cottage guest shed, the reclaimed wood sliding television cover is the one I’ve been most excited about.
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