Tips for Choosing the Best TV Cabinets

Posted on 07/10/2011 by Mark Smith

TV cabinets can provide you with a practical and attractive way to store and display your home entertainment system. This will help to keep all your equipment and accessories tidy so that they do not intrude into the room.
If you choose the wrong TV cabinets you could upset the balance of your room. This could make your living spaces feel awkward and uncomfortable. To help you make sure you choose the best TV cabinets for your home here are a few useful tips.

Measure Before You Shop

These days it is common for homes to have large flat screen televisions. Although these are much lighter in weight than older style televisions they can take up a lot of room. You will need to consider the size of your TV cabinets very carefully. It is important that you can place your television securely on top of the cabinet. If your television is too wide for the cabinet it could topple over more easily.

Before you go shopping for TV cabinets make sure you measure the space you have available and also the television carefully. This will help you choose cabinets that are the right size.

Think about the Room Décor

Each home has its own style. There are many different designs of TV cabinets available. This means you should be able to get the right cabinet to suit your room. If you have a traditional style home or a period design then you should consider wooden TV cabinets. Real wood cabinets can offer quality and elegance that will complement your home. If you have a very modern home then there are a wide range of contemporary options available including glass, plastic and stainless steel designs.

Take the Time to Shop Around

You may not be able to find the best TV cabinets for your budget and requirements in your local television stores. Try looking online as well as there are many websites available offering a great range of TV cabinets. Shopping around also gives you the chance to compare prices. You may see a cabinet you like in store that you can actually get much cheaper online.

New product Range from Optimum International

Posted on 30/09/2011 by Mark Smith

Keep watching the site for our new range of products coming soon from the stable of Optimum International, not only a manufacturer in their own right but the only official BDI Distributor in the UK and whats more is as from Monday the 3rd October we will also be one of the first online TV Stand businesses to become an official Opti Cert partner in association with Optimum International and BDI for which you will soon see our official Opti-Cert partner logo displayed on both our own and Optimum Internationals websites.

The OPTI-CERT symbol certifies that the trading website has been approved and authorised by Optimum International – manufacturers of Optimum products and exclusive distributors for BDi in the UK. Optimum recognises the expertise of the OPTI-CERT partner as a specialist in internet retailing. Optimum works closely with its OPTI-CERT Partners to ensure the purchaser receives:

· The best product advice possible from an established online specialist
· Genuine Optimum supplied product with full manufacturer’s warranty
· New product in the original sealed box (unless otherwise stated)
· After sales service backed by us, the manufacturer
· Optimum’s online compensation promise*

*Optimum online compensation promise explained…

When paying your retailer online, it’s likely that you will use a credit card, in which case CCA Section 75 would usually legally protect your payment. Debit and charge card transactions may be protected under the card providers own scheme. In the event of an online retailer becoming insolvent during the purchase, both processes can involve time and effort in reclaiming your payment where goods have not been supplied.

“So what if the unthinkable should happen?”…

For your added peace of mind, Optimum International’s online compensation promise* offers to:

Arrange for direct supply of a replacement Optimum or BDi product to the purchaser at a discount of 15% off your original purchase price (proof of original transaction required). This is based on a repurchase, and conditional upon the unlikely event of the OPTI-CERT partner becoming insolvent during the order process and failing to supply the goods. This is our pledge for the purchaser to buy with confidence and be further compensated for the inconvenience of an unlikely failed transaction.

We think that it is an exciting partnership that we are proud to be associated with and look forward to a bright future in a marketplace were we have always strived to bring high quality and the best value to our customers.

High Quality TV Furniture & Home Theatre TV Cabinets from BDI and Optimum

Posted on 26/08/2011 by Mark Smith

The latest in our ever expanding range of TV Stands, TV Furniture and Home Theatre TV Cabinets will be hitting the website very soon as we have just finalised product details and information to allow us to supply one of the top names in the game BDI. For over 25 years now BDI have been at the forefront of the industry providing a force in contemporary home furnishings and an industry leader in home theatre furniture developing and manufacturing Designs that would actually be accessible.

In looking at our range of BDI products, you’ll find a collection of furniture pieces that are unique, functional and great looking. This range of Home Theatre furniture is engineered to meet the demanding needs of today’s electronics, and do so while enriching the home and the home theater experience. BDI was the first to introduce innovations such as hidden wheels, adjustable shelves, cable management and flow-through ventilation as standard features. A BDI Home Theater system successfully merges functional innovation with original and exciting Design.

The inclusion of this high quality and beautiful range of TV Furniture will also see the introduction of a white glove service for the delivery of these products. The range of BDI TV Cabinets all come fully assembled apart from the fitting of the finishing touches such as drawer and door handles etc;. Our white glove service will mean that your stand will be delivered on a day to suit you and by two men, upon arrival they will unload your BDI TV Cabinet, unpack the cabinet and place it in the location of your choosing before taking all of the packaging away as well. This gives you great piece of mind in knowing that your expensive piece of furniture is delivered and placed for you so that you can safely sign and accept the delivery in confidence.

Optimum International Limited is one of the UK’s top manufactures and designers of display stands for audio, hi-fi and television users and produces both modular and non-modular furniture incorporating a strong design aspect and total flexibility. We have already discussed supplying several of the ranges from this exciting range of TV Stands including a number of models from their innovative modular range and new products from their latest Reflection range of TV Stands as well as their established ranges in the Vision, Fusion and Odyssey products.

Functional and Innovative Designs from BDI TV Stands

Posted on 11/04/2011 by Mark Smith

Modern flat screen televisions are getting larger and there are now a multitude of accessories to plug in and enhance our viewing experience. This means that we need to find even more efficient ways of storing and displaying our television equipment. BDI TV stands can offer a number of innovative design solutions for your living spaces.

BDI TV stands can provide you with functional ways to protect and organise home entertainment equipment. A range of great styles are available so you can choose the right stand to fit your rooms.

Quality and Functionality

BDI TV stands have a good reputation for quality build. This means they will last a long time and provide you with effective functionality. These high-end solutions to television storage and display can help you to make the most of your viewing experience. With BDI your television equipment will be readily available without intruding into your living spaces.

Another benefit of BDI TV stands is that they can offer professional TV mounting without the need for wall mounts. The ‘Arena’ mount is articulated and can attach directly to the back of BDI floor consoles. It can also be used with cabinets you may already have in the room and the fixings can be hidden behind furniture and out of sight. This provides you with an attraction and functional solution for displaying your flat screen television.

Tips for Buying BDI TV stands

BDI do not sell directly to the customer. This means you will need to find an authorised dealer to buy from. The easiest way to do this is to look online. This will save you a lot of time and hassle and you will have a vast range of BDI TV stands available at just the click of a button. Here are a few tips for when you are buying BDI stands:

• Requirements – make sure you understand your requirements for a TV stand before you start shopping. Think about what equipment and accessories you want to store and display. Also consider how much space you have available in your rooms. This will help you to narrow down your choices and select a suitable TV stand.
• Flooring – check the floor area carefully if you are buying a free standing design. Some BDI TV stands have built-in levellers that are very useful if you have uneven floors. You can also get designs with built-in wheels which makes the stands easier to move around.
• Shop Around – whether you are buying online or in conventional stores you do need to shop around. Prices are set by each seller so they can vary significantly. If you take the time to compare deals then you can get some great savings on quality furniture from BDI.
• Delivery – if you are buying online or in-store then check the delivery options. This can add to the costs of your order so you do need to factor this in when making price comparisons. If you do not have a car then delivery may be your only option so check this is offered before you buy.

Choose From a Great Range of BDI TV Stands Online

Posted on 25/03/2011 by Mark Smith

The Internet is one of the best places to find a wide range of top quality BDI TV stands. You will be able to search quickly and easily for the perfect BDI stand to suit your television equipment and living spaces.

Style Range

BDI create TV stands that aim to help you blend your modern home entertainment systems into your homes. The original designs and quality engineering from BDI ensures that you can integrate your viewing technology into your home whatever the style of your décor. You can choose from a great range of TV cabinets and stands that will secure, organize and display your television and accessories.

Innovative Design

With BDI you can be sure of a quality finish that will last. Many BDI TV stands can offer innovative features including:

• Articulated Mounts – these allow you to move your screen in four directions (left, right, up and down) so that you can get it in exactly the right place for viewers.
• Cable Management – tuck cables out of sight with BDI cable management systems. These are inbuilt into TV stands and include integrated raceways so that you can route wires safely and securely. Also available are removable back panels for easy access. These cable management systems provide an effective way to organise your television equipment.
• Angled TV Stands – the angled rear sides of selected BDI TV stands allow you to position the stand right back into room corners. This is an effective solution to displaying your home entertainment equipment and maximising floor space.
• Hidden Wheels – move your BDI TV stands around quickly and easily with the hidden wheels in the floor frames. This allows you to move the TV stand even when it is loaded with your equipment for safe access to rear cables and input/output sockets.
• Built in Levellers – ensure that your television equipment is totally secure with the built-in levellers from BDI. These can be adjusted easily to bring BDI TV stands into a balanced alignment to eliminate any troublesome wobbles.

Shopping Online for BDI TV Stands

You can only buy new BDI TV stands from authorised suppliers. This is why it is such a good idea to shop online as this will save you travelling around trying to find local suppliers. There are a number of excellent provides online who offer informative websites and easy ordering processes. When you are buying a new BDI TV stands online you need to consider a few important factors first:

• Available Space – you must make sure you measure the space available for your new TV stand. All the information about dimensions will be available in the product descriptions on the websites. If you have the measurements to hand you will be able to check each model carefully and make an informed decision about which one will fit your room.
• Equipment – take stock of the television equipment you want to store in your new TV stand. This will give you a good idea about what size and type of stand you will need.

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.

Television Stands For the Home and Workplace

Posted on 07/01/2011 by Mark Smith

Television stands offer an affordable and functional way for you to store your television equipment safely and securely. This is an important consideration for homes and offices to avoid damaging expensive electrical items unnecessarily and to ensure that cables are tidied away for health and safety reasons. You can also get lockable television stands that are ideal for open workplaces to ensure that expensive equipment is kept secure when not in use.

Around the Home

Nearly every home has a television these days and these are used with many accessories and additional items such as DVD players, video players, games consoles and set top/cable/satellite boxes. All of this equipment and the associated cables can look very untidy and television stands are used to make sure they are kept organized and out of the way. Television stands also enable you to display the television at an appropriate height for comfortable viewing and you can get many adjustable stands. Wall mounts are also available if you have a flat screen monitor that you wish to display up on the wall out of the way. You do need to be very careful that you have installed wall mounts securely before you mount the television. Although modern televisions are fairly lightweight they can pull badly installed mounts out of the wall and send the television crashing to the floor causing a lot of damage.

Around the Workplace

It used to be common for workplaces to have television equipment which was used to show staff various videos including training tapes, motivational clips and company news. These video clips are now available via computers through forums such as e-learning and Internet/Intranet pages, however some workplaces do retain television equipment as this can be more easily moved around and set up in rooms that do not have Internet and computer connections. Workplaces may also provide televisions for staff to watch during breaks and will need adequate storage and display stands for this equipment.

Television Stand Options

There are a number of options when it comes to television stands. You can buy designs made of a range of materials including glass (the cheapest and most available option), plastic, wood and metal. If you have a very small room then there are some corner TV cabinets available that will fit right back into the corner of the room. These are effective at saving space but may not provide enough room if you have a lot of additional equipment such as DVD players, Blu Ray Players and video games consoles. You can also buy cabinet style televisions stands which are more like regular pieces of furniture and these are typically made from wood. These have front doors which can be closed to hide away the television equipment when it is not in use.

Attractive and Versatile Wooden TV Stands for Your Home

Posted on 29/10/2010 by Mark Smith

These days wooden TV Stands are available in a bewildering range of styles and designs that offer the consumer with not only an attractive method of displaying your television but a versatile one that allows the storage and display of all the accompanying peripherals and media. There are wooden TV Stands available in both traditional and contemporary designs, in a range of stunning high quality finishes from real wood to beautiful veneers so there should be something available to suit all tastes and décor.

Of course for the traditional home wooden TV stands are ideal as they are available in a number of finishes and conventional designs that could be easily matched to your existing furniture, and you can even get designs that look like antique pieces of furniture that are well suited to a period home. There is nothing quite like the look and feel of natural wood finishes to bring warmth and a feeling of quality to your furniture and room.

At TV Stands UK we already have a wide selection of wooden TV stands available and we are adding to these constantly, one of the latest additions to the range has been the TV Cabinets manufactured by the world leading manufacturer BDI and these are already proving to be very popular with the ardent audio and video connoisseur as well as those looking for a really high quality and classy piece of TV furniture. Still proving very popular in our wooden TV stands are the ranges manufactured by Iconic and Peerless with models like the TX7000 Lindi series which is one of our wooden corner TV Stands being as firm a favourite now as it has always been.

We have also seen an increase in the popularity of the more modern bench style wooden TV stands which with their sleek designs and combination of glass shelves and wooden side panels are a really nice clean looking design for the more modern home while retaining some of the warmth and beauty of the wood finish. Models such as the Jual Furnishings JF203-1100 Wooden TV Stand with its gorgeous curves and walnut finish bring the best of both worlds with its high tech design, real wood finish and glass shelves.

There are of course a few things to consider when you are looking to choose a wooden TV Stand, many of them are of a TV cabinet design and as such will have closed features such as solid wood or wood with glass doors. In these instances think about what is going to be inside as the components will generate heat, make sure that the wooden TV cabinet is well ventilated and if it has glass doors are they IR friendly.

Have a look at our range of wooden TV stands, I am certain that there will be something to suit your requirements.

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.

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