04-06-2021, 08:15 PM
I have started a built-in entertainment center, and while it's already in progress I'm not that far along. I feel like it's a somewhat unique project so I thought it might make sense to help do a build-along.
The summary is that I have a very ordinary wall in the basement (little used) where an older TV and an older entertainment center sit. We essentially never use it, while the kids occasionally do. My plan was to get a bigger TV (my eyes are declining more rapidly than I would like) as I watch while on the treadmill during the winter, rainy days, and so on and include a fireplace. To this end I am replacing a minimally sized unit (built for the exact equipment I had for a townhouse in a room about a third the size of the room it is in now) with a bigger unit.
The plan is to do an approximately 80x40 wall unit that will house an electric fireplace along with a center channel speaker and all of my equipment. This means there's a lot of grommets to allow for wires to go from one compartment to another (and outside, since it's a built-in) along with an installed fan system to exhaust heat. Having had an electric fireplace before, I am not sure that it generates much heat on the inside, but the A/V equipment certainly does. Thus I wanted to ensure that there would be adequate airflow from the outside of the cabinet to the inside and then out the top.
So if there's interest I'll do a build-along. It's just an entertainment center, but...
1) It will have a mounted dual fan exhaust system on top of the system to keep the inside cool.
2) It will be custom-sized for both an electric fireplace and a center channel speaker.
3) It will have an IR repeater to allow for the existing equipment to sit behind closed cabinet doors (also related to #1 above).
4) The plain wall above the unit will be a wood-trimmed faux stone "chimney" (Genstone panels) to mimic our real stone fireplace above.
Thoughts?
The summary is that I have a very ordinary wall in the basement (little used) where an older TV and an older entertainment center sit. We essentially never use it, while the kids occasionally do. My plan was to get a bigger TV (my eyes are declining more rapidly than I would like) as I watch while on the treadmill during the winter, rainy days, and so on and include a fireplace. To this end I am replacing a minimally sized unit (built for the exact equipment I had for a townhouse in a room about a third the size of the room it is in now) with a bigger unit.
The plan is to do an approximately 80x40 wall unit that will house an electric fireplace along with a center channel speaker and all of my equipment. This means there's a lot of grommets to allow for wires to go from one compartment to another (and outside, since it's a built-in) along with an installed fan system to exhaust heat. Having had an electric fireplace before, I am not sure that it generates much heat on the inside, but the A/V equipment certainly does. Thus I wanted to ensure that there would be adequate airflow from the outside of the cabinet to the inside and then out the top.
So if there's interest I'll do a build-along. It's just an entertainment center, but...
1) It will have a mounted dual fan exhaust system on top of the system to keep the inside cool.
2) It will be custom-sized for both an electric fireplace and a center channel speaker.
3) It will have an IR repeater to allow for the existing equipment to sit behind closed cabinet doors (also related to #1 above).
4) The plain wall above the unit will be a wood-trimmed faux stone "chimney" (Genstone panels) to mimic our real stone fireplace above.
Thoughts?
