Choose Plasma TV Stands in 5 Easy Steps

Posted on 04/03/2011 by Mark Smith

Many people now own plasma televisions, and this is a great feature for any home and can offer the user a superior viewing experience. Modern plasma televisions are large devices and can be difficult to integrate successfully into a room. However if you choose the right plasma TV stands you will find it much easier to incorporate your television into your living spaces.

Plasma TV stands

There is a wide number of different plasma TV stands available. In fact the choice can be a little overwhelming for many consumers. It can be difficult working out which plasma TV stands would be best for your needs. Here are 5 easy steps to help you choose the right plasma TV stands for your living spaces.

Step 1: Size Matters
Make sure you measure the width, length and depth of the space you have available for your TV stand. Also measure the width of the television itself. Use these figures to help you choose plasma TV stands that will fit the space you have available and your television. You should always check the manufacturer’s guidelines before buying plasma TV stands. These guidelines will tell you useful operation details such as how much weight the stands can support.

Step 2: Height Considerations
The height of TV stands is very important to comfortable viewing. Televisions should be placed at around eye level when you are sitting down. Ask someone to help you measure the approximate eye level for viewers in your room. You can then you this figure to make sure you get a suitable TV stand. Stands that have height adjustment functions will also be useful in case you change your furniture or want to move the TV stand to another room.

Step 3: Additional Equipment
Plasma TV stands can also be used to store your additional television equipment. This can include DVD players and satellite, cable and Freeview boxes. Make sure the plasma TV stands you are looking at can provide enough shelving and space for all the devices you want to store.

Step 4: Ventilation
If you are storing television equipment in plasma TV stands then you will need to make sure they are ventilated (open backs, air flow grills etc). This will allow natural air flow to cool the equipment when it is operation. Devices like DVD players do get warm when in use but as long as they are properly stored and ventilated this should not be a problem

Step 5: Style and Design
Narrow down what plasma TV stands to look for by considering which styles and designs would best suit your room. For example glass TV stands will compliment most modern homes. However they can look out of place in rooms decorated in period styles. You may be much better off with a wooden TV cabinet finished in a more traditional style. This would help your plasma television to integrate more successfully into your room design.

Five top features in a TV cabinet

Posted on 11/02/2011 by Mark Smith

There are certain things you should look for in TV cabinets – these cabinets are often found in bedrooms and are designed to hide the TV in a safe place while looking stylish and elegant.

So what should you look for?

It may sound obvious, but you need to be sure that your TV fits the cabinet – there’s no point in buying a TV cabinet that doesn’t cover up your TV or other items stored in it. If you’re buying a TV alongside your cabinet, consider measuring and buying both together – buying the TV to fit the cabinet is a great idea if you find a design you like – it may save you the worry of designing a solution to match your needs if you need to buy a new TV.

The doors you choose should be lightweight and easy to close and have some sort of catch so they can remain closed. The best doors fold into the cabinet instead of just remaining open, because then there’s no chance of accidentally walking to them in the middle of the night.

Glass doors on these display cabinets are often a good idea and given an elegant touch to your room – but it’s important to remember to make the wood of your choice match the wood of your bedroom – mismatched bedroom furniture is often a source of displeasure amongst those that sleep in there, so where possible choosing similar coloured woods and other finishes will help your pieces blend. If you can’t do that, go with light pine, as it matches almost everything and stays ‘in style’ far longer than darker woods.

Make sure there’s plenty of room for cables and a way to tuck your plug out of the way – you may want to take the back off the unit entirely, or there may just be a hole in the back. Or you may need to make one – no matter what type of hole your cabinet needs or already has, remember that you may have to fit more than one plug out of there. Being able to access those plugs is also an advantage that you may need to consider. As more people add wireless switches to their house, you may need a larger gap. All of these needs should be carefully considered when buying your cabinet.

Finally, find something that you actually like. TV cabinets come in a wide range of styles and finishes – and beyond functionality, they should be easy to care for and easy to live with, so your choice should be one that you enjoy.

Whatever your choice of TV cabinet, you’ll find that the best ones blend elegantly and unobtrusively with your own furniture. Choosing a style and design you like will help with that but as so many are designed to blend with other furniture it shouldn’t be a problem.

New Year, New Range – Blok TV Cabinets

Posted on 14/01/2011 by Mark Smith

Well its another new year here at TV stands UK and once again we are not resting on our laurels as we are proud to announce the newest range of products from one of the leading UK manufacturers of high quality AV Furniture, including TV Cabinets, HiFi racks and Audio Visual Furniture. The people behind BLOK have been manufacturing furniture for over 25 years and have combined this expertise with their UK Factory to provide efficient and affordable designer TV Furniture.

We initially kicked off with this range in the latter part of December of 2010 with a range of three products from The Blok Stax range, the Stax 300 Series, 400 Series and 500 Series and have now added to this their range of Blok Classix TV Cabinets in the shape of the Classix 1000 Series, 2000 Series and 3000 Series. And are currently considering other models from within their expanding range of high quality TV Furniture.

The Blok Stax range is a collection of Hi-Fi and AV Racks that have been manufactured with simplicity and style whilst still providing a product of a very high quality that even the most avid audiophiles shout about. Available in three superb high quality real wood veneer finishes natural light oak, black oak and walnut these AV racks come with either black or etched glass shelves in three four and five shelf arrangements, and at 580mm wide will easily accommodate TV’s upto and including 32″ screens. They are manufactured to the highest quality and safety standards and as you would expect the 10mm glass shelves are toughened safety glass which conforms to BS6062A.

” This good-looking three tier rack is solidly constructed and nicely put together. And it helps deliver a sound with similar characteristics. ” What Hi-Fi, June 2010.

The Blok Classix range is just that a range of high quality TV Cabinets that bring a contemporary look to a classic style and once again they are manufactured to the highest of standards. We have included three different size models in our range that can cover TV’s upto 32″ on the 1000 series, 42″ on the 2000 series and 60″ on the 3000 series. Each model is once again available in a choice of three fantastic, high quality real wood veneers, natural oak, black oak and walnut with complimenting black “privacy glass” doors. This clever feature allows all of your AV components to be discreetly hidden away but still allows all of the remotes to function correctly, even with the doors closed.

The Blok Classix range includes a host of other features such as adjustable slotted shelves, open back feature to improve ventilation and discrete castors to allow ease of placement, the 300 series even comes with a special central section covered with acoustic cloth to accommodate a central speaker. It is attention to detail like this that makes this range of audiovisual cabinets appeal to serious AV enthusiasts and due to their solid contruction and feature-rich simple design they will easily provide years of service.

TV Cabinets the Perfect Solution for Home Entertainment

Posted on 22/12/2010 by Mark Smith

When you’ve got several options for storage, TV cabinets can often create your perfect solution when it comes to storing the collection of boxes, cables and more that make up your home entertainment system. Quite simply put, they are often the best solution between creating a haven from what can be a disorganised clutter versus having a place for everything that is custom designed to work with the needs of a Television display and storage unit.

Living room cabinets are often open plain affairs that allow you to store everything as close to your TV as possible. This combination of practicality and function makes them ideal to ensure that your TV cabinet is well used. Making sure they are designed for the weight and support needed for a TV of that size can make the difference between a poorly functioning, broken cabinet and a well-designed one. Ensuring too, that the cabinet is either adjustable or has space for all of your bits and pieces can make the difference between it looking overstuffed or comfortably used. Remember that games consoles have controllers and almost every TV or DVD currently comes with a remote control, so storage for them is also a must.

Bedroom cabinets are designed to hide pieces such as the TV and often have deep doors that swing open or tuck away to reveal the equipment inside. Caring for these is slightly harder than other objects as they can be tricky to keep clean and uncluttered. It’s easy too, to forget to close the doors properly, which can cause damage, or be bumped into at night/early morning. It’s good practice to get up and close these doors, if they don’t tuck away into the cabinet.

Wall mounted TV cabinets or other items that can be built into otherwise barely used recesses might be a solution to space problems in oddly shaped rooms. Leverage the shape of the recess to create a media storage area, or a place to keep your TV and it’s sundry pieces without creating an issue with other areas of the room.

In a child’s room, a TV cabinet can be an effective way of ‘putting away’ the TV for the evening and gives a great opportunity for adults to ensure that the child has access to the TV at appropriate times. When they are small it doesn’t even need to be locked, just close and store for appropriate, cosy play and watching. In a teenager’s room, locks may be used for the teenager to protect their stuff, rather than stopping them from accessing what is inside, and respecting this privacy can create bonds with parents that might otherwise be harder to come by. And it also makes it easier to tidy.

No matter what your choice, TV cabinets are the best choice for both out of sight and open plan storage and can create a great environment to store your TV and related media materials.

Choosing the right TV Cabinet

Posted on 11/10/2010 by Mark Smith

The benefit of the TV cabinet over the TV stands is that it often looks neater and will fit in with a wide range of domestic styles and tastes in decor. The shiny, modern TV stand can look great in the shop, surrounded by spot lights and acres of gleaming technology, but will often look out of place when it arrives in the comparatively softer environment of the home. Also, what do you do with all those wires? In our wireless age it’s surprising how many miles of cabling it takes to connect the various bits of equipment. The TV cabinet conveniently hides all of the cables and stops them looking unsightly. And then there’s the vast amount of disks that we all accumulate. TV cabinets provide the storage you need to keep everything tidy and accessible all in one smart and practical unit.

Choosing the right setting for your TV is a complicated task. There’s so much choice! Should it be sleek, contemporary and minimalist or should it be a softer piece of furniture that doesn’t look quite so ‘space-age’? Should it be a TV stand that displays all the technology to the full or a TV cabinet that shields all of the hardware from sight? Fortunately, there are options on the market to suite all tastes.

TV cabinets come in a wide range of styles, colours, shapes and sizes and for all they don’t look quite as edgy as the TV stand there are still a number of very modern looking models to choose from. TV cabinets are available in a range of traditional wooden finishes as well as lacquered and high-gloss effects for those wishing to be a little more adventurous. So, depending upon your taste and other furnishings you could get a TV cabinet in a walnut finish that would look sophisticated and timeless or in a more modern white or red high-gloss finish that wouldn’t look out of place in the swish, urban loft environment.

If you were to go for the TV cabinet choice then you’d be looking at a fuller piece of furniture; something with a bit of substance. As oppose to the TV stands, which tends to be rather stark and simply comprise a series of shelves, the TV cabinet is styled more like a cupboard and is likely to be contain internal storage. A typical TV cabinet will consist of shelving for accessories such as DVD player and satellite box which may be enclosed as well as drawers for the storage of discs and other items. The TV itself would be placed on top of the cabinet. Many cabinets are on castors for convenience and easy of movement.

The choice is yours. So whatever your needs, the perfect TV cabinet is waiting for you.

New BDI TV Furniture & White Glove Delivery

Posted on 01/10/2010 by Mark Smith

As reported in our last Blog post we were in the process of including the huge range of TV Cabinets and TV Furniture from the leading manufacturer BDI this has now been completed and we have sixteen new designs in varying sizes and finishes giving us a whopping ninety plus new products for our customers. This is no ordinary brand of TV furniture though BDI is a leading force in the design and manufacturer of some of the highest quality and beautiful TV Furniture around, of course this sort of quality comes at a price and thats one of the reasons we are offering our white glove delivery service on all BDI TV Cabinets FREE!!

This is a great service and would normally cost in the region of £60-£70 and it is the only option available on these high quality pieces of TV Furniture. So what do you get, what makes this service so special? Firstly you will be called direct by the supplier to arrange the date of the delivery and this will be a date to suit you (thats why this service has a timescale of upto seven days) they will even call the day before the delivery to inform you whether this will be a morning or afternoon service. Secondly this service is a two man delivery service, so it isnt essential for you to have anyone available to assist, the two man delivery upon arrival will ask which room you want the TV Cabinet in, and move it to this location for you before unpacking the TV Furniture and removing all the packaging for you. This way your TV Cabinet is delivered, located and unpacked in pristing condition so that you can sign for this in confidence, giving you real piece of mind. Now thats service!!

These TV Cabinets really are superb and come with so many features as standard that its difficult to appreciate, so lets cover a few of them below.

As any true AV buff will tell you one of the most difficult things when it comes to housing all your AV Components is the differing sizes they come in. All BDI TV Cabinets come with adjustable shelves and these can be done in numerous increments. Most of the shelves supplied rest on unique steel pins and these have been rubberised to reduce vibration.
They all come supplied with integrated cable management as there is nothing worse than having a stunning looking cabinet and then loads of unsightly wires and cables trailing all over the place.
BDI TV Cabinets come with flow through ventilation that helps keep all of your components in peak condition during their working life. Hey!! you not only want your equipment to look cool you want it to stay cool to.
We all know how difficult it can be to get at the back of components and cabling on a fully laden TV Cabinet so BDI have added unique concealed wheels on many of their TV Cabinets, and many of them also have removeable back panels. So even when fully loaded the TV Cabinet can be rolled away from the wall in order to allow ease of access.

There are a host of other innovative and clever features on these products and each model has these discussed on their product page, and its easy to see now why these are so popular with so many people.

Design and Style from the New Arusha TX 9000 TV Stand

Posted on 12/07/2010 by Mark Smith

If you are looking at something a bit more stylish than the run of the mill TV Stand why not take a look at the new Arusha TX9000 range from Iconic. This thoroughly modern TV Stand raises the TV on a central pedestal made from toughened safety glass and is perfect for any modern room environment.

Capable of taking stands upto 50″ this newest stand from leading manufacturers Iconic is available in three different high gloss coloured finishes, which are red, white or black and a stylish Walnut wood finish for those who like the more traditional look. Integrated cable management ensures that the stand always looks clean and uncluttered by cleverly stowing and routing all of those unsightly cables down the rear of the TV Stand.

Cleverly hidden behind the nicely designed drop down door front is more space for other devices such as the Satellite Box or a DVD Player as well as storage for your games or DVD’s. The drop down door has a slow release safety mechanism which is another of their clever safety features designed to prevent injury to the smaller members of the household.

The Iconic Arusha TX 9000 Designer TV Stand is a very nice addition to the range, it supports a wide variety of the TV sets that seem popular in the market today and utilises some very nice design and safety features which we are sure will make this appeal to a wide audience. Add to this a price that won’t break the bank and our free delivery service and you could soon be displaying your new TV on a stand that is almost as slimline and stylish as the Tv itself.

Designer TV Stands

Posted on 26/05/2010 by Mark Smith

Congratulations! Your search is over for finding fashionable and chic tv stand because this article will discuss just what you are looking for – Designer TV Stands.

For the past few blog articles we’ve written so far, we’ve mentioned a few of the TV stands we offer on the site: black glass TV stand, clear glass, cantilever TV stands, wood TV stands, TV trolleys, table tops stand, etc. Today, we’ll add another line of tv stand product, the designer TV stands, that you probably haven’t checked out before.

Ateca Monaco Black Wood/Black Glass TV stand

While we profess that all products we have on the site are made by experts in the industry, we have quite a few brands on the site that were designed by top interior designers specializing in the field of living room furniture.

We have a few of these on the site, and while they are a bit a high-priced compared to the other brands we have on the site, we can assure you of excellent work and a design that will surely be envied by your visitors. But what is £229.99 for a “stand out” quality and design. It’s definitely not available anywhere else on the web.

The competition for Designer TV stands is growing much to the satisfaction of clients or customers who are looking for top-notch designs and something that will stand for a long time.

The Ateca Monaco Black Wood/Black Glass TV stand is one of the designer brands we have on the site. It accommodates TV size of up to 32” and carries weight of up to 80 Kg. It goes well with LCD TV, plasma TV or OLED’s (organic light emitting diode (OLED) for that matter. For a nice-looking TV, one will surely invest on an elegantly-designed designer TV stands. This is backed by a 10 year guarantee for a more peace of mind. Visit the site by clicking the link above to read more about Ateca Monaco stand.

Welcome to the TV Stands UK Blog

Posted on 29/04/2010 by Mark Smith

Over the last 8 years TV stands UK has been selling a whole array of tv stands to the UK public and today we thought it was time we joined the blogosphere to tell you what were upto, our MD has assured us that we will posting on a regular basis about all things TV Stands and what’s going on with our developments of the main tvstandsuk.co.uk site.

Our intention over the coming months is to re-develop the main site adding new functionality and a whole new range of designer TV stands to the already awesome range, our range will more than triple over the coming months with an extensive range of accessories on the horizon.

That’s all for today !!! Short and sweet… keep an eye out for our new designer TV stand ranges and thanks for stopping bye !!!.

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