Pine TV Cabinet for Your New Weekend Cabin


After purchasing your new weekend cabin in the Smokey Mountains, it is time to start putting your spin on the decor. Since vacation cabins are a little smaller than most homes, it is best to keep the furniture theme the same through out the entire interior, this will give the illusion of the home being larger. One thing that always seems to rear its ugly head when attempting to create a rustic decor is today’s technology ridden society is namely the home entertainment devices. The solution is easy, as you can hide everything in a pine TV cabinet, to keep your “home on the range”, appeal alive and well.

If you have previously purchased your pine living room or bedroom furniture, check and see if the company that sold it to you may have a matching cabinet. If the line has been discontinued, there are still a couple of options. One, you can buy an unfinished cabinet and try to apply a wood stain that will match your other pieces, or you can have a cabinetmaker create one from scratch that matches the current furnishings. The latter may be a little too expensive for some decorating budgets, but you can get pretty close with the first suggestion.

There are varying levels of sophistication even for pine TV cabinets and depending on your wants and needs pricing can sky rocket with certain options. The cost alone of any hardwood product is off the charts cost wise currently, and you should be prepared for at least some minimal sticker shock when starting your search for the perfect pine entertainment center. A couple of options that should not be overlooked is a slide out tray for the television to be mounted on, as this will give you angled viewing of the TV from just about any location in the room. In addition, enough storage space for not only your surround sound equipment, DVD Player, and cable or dish box, but if you have children supplementary space will be needed for game consoles and their accessories.

If space is dramatically limited in your new cabin, then a pine corner TV cabinet may be the next best product for your audio video needs. Although it will not hide everything, it will still look more tasteful atop the pine furniture that blends with the rest of your room’s interior. The Unfinished Furniture of Wilmington is a company that makes a corner unit that you can stain to match your coffee and end tables for about three hundred dollars plus handling and shipping costs. Most finished products for this category will run about five to six hundred for a solid wood version. Of course, you can save scads of money by choosing the man made veneers that utilize MDF or particleboard below the surface which is a standard way to save cash on TV stands.

The pine TV armoire, although made for the bedroom can also make a beautiful addition to the living room area of your cabin. Hiding everything electronic like the standard TV cabinet but with more flair and decorative value. These units more than not will come standard with a slide out tray, engineered cabling system, and some even have the electrical outlets built into the enclosure. Generally the cabinet doors will have a three dimensional ornate design carved directly into the solid pine, and will offer volumes of character to the overall design theme of the room.

Pine TV furniture is actually made all over the world, and believe it or not, some of the best products are imported from Mexico and are handmade by local craftsmen that have scores of experience in making highly stylized home furnishings form many materials including pine. So in summary whether you need large near custom designed pine TV cabinetry, or just a simple pine TV stand, there are so many sources online and otherwise available to purchase this furniture, that you could never shop them all in a realistic time frame.

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The Bush Corner TV Stand Makes A Perfect Fit


The final cost of purchasing any television is not what you pay for the unit when leaving the retail store, but after you have realized the essential ancillary products needed complete your home entertainment installation. You have to figure out the “where”, and then approach the installation project with that in mind. Pretty much every room in the home today includes some sort of television. Rooms that are a little tight on open floor real estate will always profit from using a Bush Corner TV Stand.

Bush are the makers of the largest selection of corner television stands in the industry, and will have one to fit your decor, size constraints, and budget. For those on a modest budget but still would like some style and decorative value the Bush Weston corner TV stand will be a match made in flat panel heaven. It is a dark muted stand that is not only utilitarian in nature, but abounds with a style of it’s own. Incorporating ample storage for movies, games, and accessories, it also excels in the way you Blue Ray, Tivo, and game console is stored on shelving below the TV, but with the added accent of wood trimmed glass cabinet door.

For a more traditional look then the Bush Savannah Corner TV stand with optional hutch, and audio tower may be the solution to your square footage challenge in the finished basement or converted bedroom that now serves as the home theater. The brown antique-ish stained wood and double door display cabinetry is so neutral that you not have any trouble at all blending this piece in with the rest of your furniture collection. It will handle up to a one hundred pound flat screen TV with no problems at all. For the value of the stand, the price of three hundred dollars certainly makes it a great buy.

For more a 80s style retro look the bush furniture visions corner TV stand black silver edition will remind you of those home stereo audio racks that where so popular some twenty plus years ago. The one-piece hinged glass front covers all audio-video equipment but is visible so all remotes will still work while the door is in the closed position. This is definitely for the budget minded as the price point falls just a bit over one hundred dollars at most super discount web sites, and retailer. Assembly is required, and will take about an hour for set up. Remember that most corner stands will slightly limit the size of your screen’s landscape area due to the constraints of the walls coming to a point. Usually the size best suited for best fitment will be between thirty-two and forty-three inches, otherwise the screen may touch the walls.

Bush corner TV stands even accommodate the older technology or conventional tube type televisions, Most Bush stands will offer the maximum measurements for either style of TV, and usually the large CRT type unit will max out in the area of thirty four to the thirty six inches with a load capacity of two hundred and forty pounds.

When assembling your unit, take extra care and use the tools that are normally supplied in the parts pouch that comes included. Using rechargeable drills with screwdriver, or hex head bits is a great time saver, but the laminate wood surface and MDF subsurface may not handle the added torque of the power tool.

Not all furniture makes include them in their ready to assemble kits, but if while putting together your new corner stand, an accident may occur and reveal scuff or scratch marks. A simple trick home stagers and furniture stores use is to find a magic marker close to the color of the laminate and fill in the damaged area. It will look like new from a couple of feet away.

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