I made these built ins for my wife for mother's Day.

This room needed storage badly for our kids toys, which have slowly been taking over the house. We need to fill out the shelves more, and swap out some of the pictures for other things. We may add books, but the built ins in our back room house all of the books right now.

I was heavily inspired by this post https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/s/nGjbvN5muC. Thank you u/ganit. My wife and I love what you made.

Hey there, since here are so many cool projects, I wanted to share one of mine too.

I had my old tv for a good while now and it moved several times with me. After I moved into my house, I placed it the same way it always was, but now it felt kinda small due to the largr rooms. I also got tired of the annoying cleaning-process because of these angled feet and also wanted to get rid of seeing this cable-mess. So I decided to build a TV-wall that should solve all my "problems"

pic 1: before - after

pic 2: my old "setup": Ikea Besta, black surface (always dusty), 42 inch TV, speakers don't fit besides the tv, so they had to stand partially behind the TV, playstations got dusty and had problems to cool down, because they were partially enclosed.

pic 3 - 4: I bought a wider version of the Ikea Besta (could've build one my own, but I wanted something with smoke-glass and had trouble to find some affordable stuff). I cut out triangles in the bottoms and the shelves to create airflow later. Then I designed and 3d-printed some covers to hide the hollow sections. I also integrated some anti-dust-meshes into these covers, but for some reason I didn't take photos of them.

pic 5 - 6: My idea was to integrate some noctua fansto both sides, which start to pull air through the cabinet when the temperature hits a certain point. So I cut some holes into the sides, mounted them and got some covers for a cleaner look.

pic 7: For easier cable management i driled some holes into the inside walls and got some variable covers, which hide the hollow walls but are big enough to fit plugs through them.

pic 8 - 10: I cut the socket-are out of the back-wall, screwed it to the wall, installed the tv-mount and gave it a first look... still cables, much emptyness and black surfaces. (my door-frame got painted white later and it doesn't look that rough anymore)

pic 11 - 12: Bought a black MDF board, cut it to the correct size, created 3 (+1) sections and screwed some light-ash strips to it to create the optics of these wood-foam-panel-thingys. I also integrated a shelf to create a cleaner look and give the whole back-wall more rigidity.

pic 13 - 16: I also made a light-ash countertop, installed everything on the wall and finished my cable-cover (pic 14). The cover is also black MDF with enough space to hide my cables. to prevent it from bending and breaking, I added some metal-strips to the top and bottom and glued magnets into previously drilled wholes. Those will snap to the magnets in the backwall to hold it in place.

pic 17: For better audio-management I needed a specific audio-extractor for which I 3d printed a mount to hide it behind the TV.

pic 18: Inside the cabinets are my electronics and above the PS5 you can see a heat-sensor (shiny metal thing), which controls the fans. This works absolutely perfect, whenever the temperature goes above 35°C it activates the fans, which cool the interior down to ~30°C. When the console gets turned off, it cools to 27°C and then it stops running.

pic 19 - 20: finished look. I guess it turned out pretty nice. My home is still pretty empty and I am really bad in decorating, so I am sorry for this pity decoration. In the future, I will get some better speakers, but for now they work just fine. Also my subwoofer sits inside the middle cabinet and I am happy, not to have stuff standing on the floor anymore.

Have a nice day, everyone

I am in the process of designing a entertainment center for my living room, and I'm trying to figure out what makes a good media cabinet? I want to stay away from glass, but I want my remotes to work seamlessly with everything inside of it. This is picture is my inspiration at the moment, but the base will be much lower as my TV sits at 26 inches currently.

Need some advice on reinforcing the wall behind my future entertainment center.

I will be wall-mounting a large LG G4 OLED TV (77in or 83in) and floating A/V cabinet.

I might also wall-mount an A/V rack with amps, consoles, etc.

The wall in question is an exterior wall (insulated for our Canadian winters) 30ft long spanning the living room and dining room (open plan).

I want to make sure all of the wall-mounted items are as solidly fixed as possible, without anchors or other aids.

What are my options?