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This is the dilemma I've been trying to solve for five years!
We're not big tv watchers. We love to rent movies, but even then we only watch one a week or so. The television is currently stored in a tv cabinet from Target which threatens to fall to pieces every time we open and close the doors (and isn't really mid-century anyway).
I have looked everywhere for a tv cabinet that is even slightly mid-century. We have found some modernist cabinets that would fit a flat panel, but we have a 26-in regular old tv and don't plan to spend money on an upgrade any time soon. We also have rabbit ears since we don't subscribe to cable :)
I've thought about getting a vintage sideboard and just setting the tv on top, but I don't want it to be the focus of the room, KWIM? Any help? Help!
Thanks in advance,
Christiane (erwinhouse.com)
Posted at 9:38AM, 17 September 2007 PDT
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Hi,
I have wondered the same thing because I don't like the TV being "seen". I have heard of people buying a vintage chest of drawers and altering it to fit the tv. I also thought about a vintage wardrobe but never see any mid-century ones. I've seen old stereo cabinets but they would have to be just the right size - I also have a 26" regular tv. I'll be interested to see what people suggest on this.
Posted 57 months ago.
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Try a small flat screen tv. It seems to minimize the "scene stealer" affect. I also have a friend that puts his tv in a art deco armoir..looks pretty good.
Posted 57 months ago.
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surely the perfect option is a 1950s TV!! ...they did have color television then!!
of course not too practical ..but for the perfectionist .....
Posted 57 months ago.
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i turned mine into a fishtank :D
Posted 57 months ago.
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i would consider buying a vintage tv set and replacing the insides with a tv just pressed against the screen box after the vintage tube was removed. i've seen it done in the past. with some research you will find a way!
Posted 56 months ago.
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How about one of these ...
www.predicta.com/index.shtml
The Holiday model, in our bedroom, looks and works great. In the living room we have a wall-mounted LCD. I'm not crazy about the way it looks. I may build a cabinet to hide it while we're not watching -- something inspired by the Jetson's wall TV. A medium-sized flat panel also might fit inside a vintage shadow box with the interior shelves removed.
Posted 55 months ago.
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We have the same problem. The TV cabinet is the one thing in my house that makes me go...umm..not quite.
Googieagog...OMG..how do you like your TV?
Posted 51 months ago.
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I have an old black and white TV which I've removed the insides of and will replace with a colour TV remote control model. It will look original and will operate from the remote rather than the buttons on the cabinet.
To hide a TV? I looked for ages on Ebay until I found just the right size 'gentlemens wardrobe' and then used it to put theTV in. It had two draws underneath which hold DVDs and CDs.
So......no TV as the main focus of the room. Also, in Australia, some early TVs had doors which shut on the front covering the screen therefore rendering it a piece of furniture rather than a TV. A great old lamp and ashtrap on top, and Voila, TV be gone!!!
Sooz
Posted 33 months ago.
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My parents and myself have the same problem.
My partens live in art-deco-fine arts-antique-interior and bought a huuuge art deco wardrobe cabinet to store their tv in it.
The thing with giving old cabinets a new purpose (at least in the art-deco-wardrobe-case) was to drill holes for the electrics into the antique back of it. It lost a lot of worth.
Me, as a modernist made the compromise to buy a small flat sceen and put it into a far corner, so it's not the focus of the living room, pictures on my stream...
Posted 31 months ago.
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I do believe that I am the only person in the world who fits modern televisions inside the shells of 1950's TV sets. I have made eight of them. I quit doing it because no one was interested.
Of course, I fit them well, so that they are attractive. Do not be fooled by those who simply slap a cheap flat panel inside the box of an old TV.
Posted 19 months ago.
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