Our Entertainment Center situation was getting out of hand. We had an old TV stand meant for a 30 some inch tube tv, holding our 46" flat screen TV. On top of that, we have over 300 dvds, which my husband needs to display, on a shelf, in the living room. We wanted a new tv stand, but we needed something that worked with our DVD storage, or new dvd storage. After searching everywhere we couldn't find anything that could meet our needs. So we started looking into making our own storage. We found this post for making your own DVD shelving. I sent the Hubby off to Home Depot, $20 of wood and a $30 Kreg jig later, we had ourselves a plan.
We mounted the tv so that the shelving did not have to hold the tv. After that, we measured the space that we wanted to fill and built the shelves accordingly. We used common wood and stained it to our desired color.
This was the finished result:
But we didn't stop there.
Because we still had more DVD's to store, we decided to add towers on each side.
Again, we built them according to the space we had available.
All of the pieces are connected as one unit. It is pretty sturdy, but we used some L brackets to anchor it into the wall, just in case.
We ended up with way more DVD storage space than we needed. So we have room to grow and until them we can keep our knick knacks up high where the kids won't destroy them!
