How to Build a TV Lift Cabinet

this project is sponsored by touchstone Home Products to learn more about the whisper lift to that I'm using in this project click on the link in the description and visit touch-tone home products calm hey what's up guys in this video I'm going to be building this te lifts cabinet I'll be using the whisper lifts - made by touchstone Home Products it's a really quiet strong lift and it's really easy to install now if you like this design when you buy the lift it will come with Sketchup plans for this exact design I designed this to match the storage bed that I've built a few months ago so if you don't like the design you can still follow along and then change the project however you like because basically we're talking about a plywood box here that I've dressed up with some molding I use a piano hinge to attach the top if you don't like that and the reason why you might not like that is anything that you have on the top and the TV comes out will fall off the top I like that because I don't like anything on the top of furniture but if you want it to be flat the lift comes in the bracket and that way the top of the cabinet will remain flat and anything that you have on top should stay on top so enough said go ahead and get started the first step in this project is to make a face frame I'm using poplar wood for the face frame because poplar wood is a good wood if you're making a painted project and I'm using pocket hole screws to build the face frame along with the popular face frame I'm using 3/4 inch birch plywood to build the cabinet so now that the face is built I'll start cutting the ply with the size [Music] okay well now I've got all my parts cut the size and I'm ready to start building the cabinet I'll get started by first pre drilling and countersinking holes in the sides and then I'll attach the sides to the face frame in the back using a little wood glue and ancien 5/8 screws I'm attaching the sides to the face frame and back and I like to first use an inch and a half nail and the nail gun that holds everything in place and then I'll come back later and you screws for a stronger joint with the sides attached to the front and back it's time to attach the bottom attack everything in place first with an inch and a half nail and then come back with ancient 5/8 screws for a stronger joint for the Stiles and rails that create the flat panel first I'll rip the parts to width then set up a stop block on the miter saw and cut everything to length I'm using half-inch MDF to create flat panels on the sides of the cabinet and the back of the cabinet what I wanted to talk about now is the Stiles and rails I want all the Stiles and rails to be three and a half inches wide so you have to take in account the thickness of the material so the Stiles on the sides of the cabinet are only three inches but when I add the Stiles to the front of the cabinet that adds a half of an inch making the Stiles three and a half inches so it's one of those things that can be a little confusing if you don't build cabinets everyday and I wanted to take a minute and point that out first I'll attach the Stiles making sure the top of the style is flush with the top of the cabinet once I've attached all of the Stiles I'll cut the rails to fit and I'm attaching the Stiles and rails with wood glue and 18 gauge one-inch long nails the next step is to trim out the flat panels and I'm using 3/8 cord around and I'm attaching the cord around with wood glue and 3/4 inch nails in the pin nailer I just got the access panel and that's going to fit on the inside of the cabinet and eventually going to make it look like two doors but before I do that I want to attach a piece of wood on the inside of the cabinet that's going to create a tray and that way the federal will drop into the tray and be held in place with a few twists tabs I'm using a piece of quarter inch plywood as a spacer and I'll just make sure that I keep this piece of wood flush with the quarter inch plywood and I'll be attaching the wood at the right height this is a piece of scrap wood that measures a sixteenth of an inch thick I'm going to use this to trace a line all the way around the access panel so when I attach the molding to create the fake doors I'll have the same reveal all the way around the panel [Applause] for more detailed video that covers some of the tricks to achieve perfect inside miter cuts click on the link in the description I'm using a slight round over on the side of the cabinet to soften the edge and give the cabinet a more modern look and feel the next step is to make molding to finish off the top of the cabinet and hide the edge of the plywood and the MDF the molding measures three quarters of an inch by inch and three quarters and has a slight round over made with a round over bit in the router I'm attaching the molding to the top of the cabinet with wood glue and inch and 3/4 nails at the back where the hinge will be I'm padding inch and 5/8 screws for a little more support [Music] under the molding at the top of the cabinet I'm using more of the same 3/8 quarter round now I'm ready to start installing the lift and I'm going to need a hole in the back of the cabinet at each side for a power source I'm measuring off the side of the cabinet 5 inches the back of the cabinet three and a quarter inches and I'll drill an inch and 5/8 hole now I'm attaching the two mounting boards to the back of the cabinet this is what the lift will be attached to the board's measure 2 inches by an inch deep and attaching to the back of the cabinet 19 and a half inches pulling from the side of the cabin so let's go from this side of the cabinet I'm at 19 and a half inches on the outside edge and if I pull from this side of the cabinet I'm at 19 and a half inches on the outside edge the next step is to make the walnut baseboard molding and on it started by ripping the material at 3 inches after ripping the material at 3 inches I set the fence at a half of an inch raised the blade and change the angle of the blade to 6 degrees [Music] next I'll use the router to put a slight round over on the outside edge of the molding for the top of the cabinet I'm using 3/4 inch birch plywood I use the walnut laminate over the plywood to see the detailed video where I make the walnut top click on the link in the description ok well it's been a few days you can see that I've painted the cabinet I also added some nylon dome to the bottom of the cabinet and some lists it makes it easy to move the cabinet around and it also makes it possible to fit the electrical cord underneath the cabinet I finished the walnut baseboard and the top of the white one large and now I'm ready to finally put the cabinet together and install the lift without I'm finally ready to install the lift into the cabin and one of the really nice things about the whisper lift is not only is a very quiet and strong with its really simple to install I'll install the two the screws through the brackets in the back of the cabinet and five screws through the mounting plate at the bottom before attaching the mounting bracket to the bottom of the cabinet it makes sense to raise the lift a little bit to make room for the drill and the impact driver I'm using the piano hinge to attach the top to the cabinet and this is called a VIX pay it's a self centering drill bit and I'll use this to pre-drill holes for the screws I decided to go with a very simple design for the door pulls they're made of walnut and they measure 5 inches by three quarters by three quarters with a five degree angle ripped on the outside edge okay well that was the last set and finally I'm finished with this project tomorrow I'm going to bring it in the house I'll install the TV and we'll see how it looks in the room then I'll just make sure all the screws are tight not too tight you don't want to over tighten the screws and next I'll drop the TV on to the cross brackets all right well I'm really happy to have this cabinet out of the shop in the room my wife is just in here she's really excited about the way the whole room is coming together this is I think this is the third project in this whole room renovation project I started this about six months ago by replacing the trim and painting the world then I made the storage bed then I made this painting my wife wanted a winter landscape I used walnut on the frame so it would match the top of the TV Lift cabinet and the trim on the bed I want to thank touchstone foam products for making this project possible click on the link in the description to learn more about the whisper lift - it really is a super strong quiet lift it's just really easy to install now I've got this cabinet up tight against the wall because this is relatively a small room but you could also put the cabinet up against the end of it it could be an end of the bed cabinet and I finished the back of the cabinet because I'm not exactly sure where this cabinet will end up five or ten years down the road so that way the cabinet could also work as a room divider I hope you enjoyed the video thanks for tuning in and I'll see you next time hey guys I'm back because I wanted to talk about the plans for a minute I just saw the plans for the first time yesterday and I built this project a little while ago because there was a lot of moving parts to it I had to make the cabinet make the video make the plans and then send all that touchstone and they just sent me the plans and I was just kind of blown away because my plans for my bills are usually just pretty simple drawings with a cut list this is a 20-page plan with material list cut list exploded drawings and it's just really cool it's really cool to see my drawings turned into that and the plans are free so definitely click the link and check that out and it is a simple build you'll see when you look at the plans so this is something I'm going to try to bring to my bigger projects in the future because I think after seeing professional plans like that it just it makes my plans look kind of silly so hopefully I will get that going and my future builds will include professional plans so as always thanks for tuning in and I'll see you next time

Channel: Jon Peters - Longview Woodworking

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Length: 15min 47sec (947 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2017