Bedroom TV stand or mount advice?

[nuhobby]

Hi,

I feel like doing something different for the master bedroom. It probably will include a bigger TV than my old 19". Anyway, here's what we have today:
- The "Nook" in the room, presently used for a bookshelf/TV stand, is pretty darn far from the bed.
- I am very nearsighted, always fumbling for my glasses near the bed.
- Current line-of-sight from sleepy-heads to TV just barely clears the footpiece of the sleigh-bed.

So it would seem I should get a wall-mount for a TV at a high altitude. But it just strikes me as so sterile.

Any brainstorms from you craftsmen?

[a1gutterman]

Hi,

I feel like doing something different for the master bedroom. It probably will include a bigger TV than my old 19". Anyway, here's what we have today:
- The "Nook" in the room, presently used for a bookshelf/TV stand, is pretty darn far from the bed.
- I am very nearsighted, always fumbling for my glasses near the bed.
- Current line-of-sight from sleepy-heads to TV just barely clears the footpiece of the sleigh-bed.

So it would seem I should get a wall-mount for a TV at a high altitude. But it just strikes me as so sterile.

Any brainstorms from you craftsmen?

Two suggestions, Chris:

1) Go ahead and mount it to the wall and build a smart looking cabinet around it with doors that open when you want to view.

2) Build a floor cabinet with the TV hidden, and use a remote control to raise it to viewing height when you want to.

[heathicus]

Build it into the foot-board for the bed? They make lift mechanisms just for that.

[joedw00]

Here is one they say can be built in 3 hours. There a lot more video's on tv lifts.

[nuhobby]

Wow, these are great ideas! I'll chomp on this a bit.

[nuhobby]

An update after just over 1 year.... yesterday. Hey, if nothing else, I got some laughs out of the family. Some of them were humming the 'Space Oddysey" theme music. Well.... it's a rough mockup. I swear I measured things correctly and had a good sketchup confirmation that this size would work. It just looks too big! Not to worry, I'll get there someday.

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[nuhobby]

Hey, I just realized it's been 1 year this weekend since I've been running the PowerPro.

Back to the project at hand, some slight dimension-reductions and additions of stretchers / rungs are underway:
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Now I'm committed to the size of the top, but have a little freedom if I choose to further shorten the legs.

[charlese]

Now I'm committed to the size of the top, but have a little freedom if I choose to further shorten the legs.

You're only committed to the MINIMUM size of the top. A large rectangular top, or, you could make a Butler tray table top, a round top, or round on only three sides with a leaf on one side, making a hall table, or.........on to infinity!!!

[nuhobby]

This morning all the glue joints were cured and I added a couple more cross-dowels to really make it solid. I decided to hoist it up to the bedroom for a test before going for any finishing work:

Here is the current TV placed on the stand:
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Here is my "new view", Bigfoot sighting as well:
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I'm overall pretty happy! Just need to rest up and hit the finishing in a few days.

[judaspre1982]

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