Media Storage

A media closet is a perfect solution for the homeowner with multiple media components. The media closet can be mobile or fixed and built to be hidden away in an existing closet. The important...

Glass cabinet shelves are typically installed in the same way that other types of shelves are installed in a cabinet. Most shelves are installed in cabinets by resting on dowels that have been...

There is no need to spend a large amount of money at a retail furniture store, for a wall unit to accommodate your flat screen TV and electronic components. Design your own using a standard...

A TV turntable is a unique device that provides you with the ability to change the viewing angle of your television while keeping your entertainment center stationary. A turntable is ideal in...

Quality audio video racks should provide a safe and orderly way to display home theater and stereo equipment. Styles and construction materials are a matter of personal preference, but all...

Having a home theatre system includes hours of entertainment you can get from witching your favorite movies on your television. Unfortunately, the DVDs which hold these movies can be everywhere...

Wooden entertainment centers add a beautiful touch to any living room or bedroom, while providing practical space to store televisions, game systems or computers. Keeping these pieces of furniture...

Whether you need storage for grandma's heirloom china, or a built-in for your electronics, a corner cabinet adds useful storage in a little-used space. Knowing how big a cabinet your need to buy...

Filing cabinets offer convenient, organized storage for your most important documents. A major downside to filing cabinet storage, however, is that bulky filing units are often very heavy. If you...

Stereo cabinet doors are prone to damage. When they are open they can be bumped into or pushed the wrong direction, causing them to splinter and break. If this has happened to your stereo...

The living room is one of the most versatile spaces in any house. This area will usually be a place to relax and a place to entertain. One of the biggest issues surrounding the entertainment side...

Audio and media storage cabinets provide a safe and attractive way to organize and display your home theater system and your collections of music, film and video games. Media storage comes in many...

One of the hardest things about decorating your living room is the combination of electric with nonelectric elements. Many electronics have wires that can get tangled up and messy in an otherwise...

Listening to music is a favorite pastime of most teenagers and many adults. As your music collection grows, you may have a hard time knowing which CDs you have already purchased and which ones to...

Every serious collector of movies faces the same quandary at one point or another: "Where the heck do I put all these things?" Eventually, stacking them atop each other ceases to be an option due...

TV cabinets can be purchased intact at any furniture stores, or they can also be found with instructions to assemble one out of the box. If you want, though, you can assemble your own TV cabinet....

When assembling a TV stand, it's important to read the instructions that came along with it, as they vary. The stand will use multiple panels and fasteners auch as screws, pins and small dowel...

Building a home theater is about comfort and satisfaction. Ideally, cost is not a factor since nice home theater furniture can run thousands of dollars. The factors to consider for seating mainly...

Building a wooden TV stand is a simple do-it-yourself project that you can complete in a matter of hours. The only building skills you need to complete this project are the ability to accurately...

Digital video discs, or DVDs, can rapidly mount up in a home and become so disorganized that they are effectively lost. A well-designed wooden storage unit can make DVDs easy to organize and find....

Many options for TV stands exist; some can be used as is, while others may be easily adapted. Some will only accommodate smaller sets, and others will support larger sets. The choices are limited...

There are plenty of home theater cabinets on the market today, but finding exactly what you need is where the difficulty comes in. Prefabricated theater cabinets usually mean dead space that only...

Many living rooms are centered around a large piece of entertainment furniture that holds a big screen television, DVD or Blu-Ray player, gaming systems and surround sound equipment. Finding a...

Entertainment centers became very popular in the 1980s with the rise of VCRs and video game consoles. They also provided a place to keep CD, games, and tapes. Most widescreen televisions do not...

A good CD storage shelf cannot only hold CDs, but also all kinds of other media, including DVDs, backup disks, paperback books and other things, while taking up relatively little space. However,...

A corner TV console takes up less space than a square or rectangular console, since it "wedges" into the corner. If you can build your own furniture pieces, you can build a corner TV console out...

If you have a large collection of VHS tapes and DVDs and need more storage space for them, it is generally very simple to build storage shelves to contain them. The most important thing is...

When you get a new TV, especially a larger one, you need a place to put it that will suit your home. This becomes a larger issue when you see the size of the entertainment centers and TV stands...

Well-built entertainment centers are adaptable and organized. And now that oversized televisions are a thing of the past, they need not be bulky, either. In addition, they can be used to define...

Magazines are great to look at for the articles, but when they are strewn across the top of a table, they can be clutter. A good way to display your favorite magazines and keep them available for...

A lock on a file cabinet helps keep personal information away from prying eyes. A lock may have been built in by the manufacturer or added later. A hasp with a padlock or combination lock is a...

Making your own entertainment center is a great project to do. Entertainment centers are usually full-size units made with shelves on either side of a TV and cabinets with doors underneath. Making...

Building your own 5-by-5-foot wooden entertainment center for a television up to 45 inches is easy, requiring only a few carpentry tools, plywood and hardware.

CDs have become the industry standard for music and media storage, and storing them in a rack is better than leaving them stacked up. Plus, they can be organized better on shelves. Building a...

Get the gamer who has it all a place to put it. It can be a major challenge keeping the area around the television and game consoles organized. Your ready-made entertainment center was not...

If you collect CDs or DVDs, you might want to save money by building your own CD and DVD storage unit. This pattern can easily be adapted to either CD or DVD storage by changing the space between...

A home entertainment center holds the various components of your audio/video system: TV, DVD player, cable or satellite controls, stereo system and speakers. Serious woodworkers can design...

What do you do when you don't have a wall? Maybe your wide screen TV is ready to be watched, but one wall has the fireplace, one has the window and one is the entrance to the kitchen. That's when...

Are you planning on building a wall unit for your TV and other electronics? This article walks you the through step-by-step instructions required to build a full wooden entertainment wall unit for...

Storage. Can we ever have enough? And what if you live in a small space, what then? You can't afford the dollars nor the space? Well here's an idea for you.

The DVD is today's standard media type for movies, computer software and video games. If you are a movie or video game collector, you already have or will have a substantial DVD collection. Both...

Keeping your house in order requires sufficient storage. Creating a super storage wall using multiple units can be done in the garage, the kitchen, in children's rooms and even in the family room....

A wooden shelf can be anything from a board balanced precariously on two blocks to a finely crafted piece of functional art. Many cheap modern wooden shelves use pins to hold the shelves up, but...

A home theater is a combination of video and audio devices arranged for the purpose of creating an audiovisual experience comparable to that of a movie theater. To get the best performance from a...

If you are trying to get that new flat screen TV placed in in a corner in your house but you are tired of your old super sized TV stand then keep reading. The answer to your problem lies ahead.

This article will tell you how to pack for moving, especially from state to state. I have moved many times in my lifetime both locally and from state to state. I have learned many lessons on...

Is your living/family room nicely decorated, you have good furniture and you've put alot of effort into bringing it all together? But maybe it just isn't the room you had imagined, the one where...

An armoire is a versatile furniture piece. It has many uses, from storing television and other video equipment to functioning as a computer or sewing station to serving as a storage for clothes...

An elevated laptop can provide comfort and ease of use. Also, laptops can get hot -- very, very hot. Under normal conditions, they can become painful to the touch and damaging to the surfaces...

To build a good speaker takes some knowledge of circuitry and wood working. The cabinets that house the speakers are usually made from wood and can vary in style. The first thing to consider is...