Hillbilly How-to: turn any old tv into a flat panel
- by Dan Chilton (RSS feed) on Sep 11th 2007 6:00PM
- Filed under home decor, household hacks, organization and storage, recreation, audio and video, geek it yourself, framing and drywall, remodeling, electronics, entertaining
Believe it or not, the TV you see above is a full-size, space-hogging CRT. "But where's the rest of the television," you ask? Continue reading to find out...
Turns out all you need to turn that bulky old clunker of a TV into a slick-looking flat panel is a little extra closet room! I bet your wheels are turning now, aren't they -- thinking up all the other cool things you could embed into your walls. I should warn you, however, that console TVs don't look quite as nice as the newer model televisions.
Other than that, the sky (and your available closet space) is the limit!
[via the always funny new shelton wet/dry, who are in no way to be considered hillbillies]
[via the always funny new shelton wet/dry, who are in no way to be considered hillbillies]
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9-11-2007 @ 8:39PM
Lisa Hoover said...
This is a simply hilarious post, Dan! I doubt that even I am adventurous enough to actually try it, but I love the idea. Now *that's thinking outside the box.
And nice Photoshopping, FTW!
:-)
Lisa
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9-12-2007 @ 1:19PM
Nick said...
This is completely disgusting ... and for actually trying it, I give the ingenious mind behind this cheapjack ploy a solid high five and money from my pocket.
Well done, sir. I'm genuinely impressived by your follow-through.
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9-12-2007 @ 4:08PM
Rafael Cortes said...
This is nice...
I remember my dad used to have something just like that... he made a fake wall with some decorative panels, and he had the component radio system (including the speakers), the TV set and the VHS inserted into the wall! Also he had decorative panel ceiling, an he ran speaker cables from that stereo in the living room to every public part of the house, and he controlled where to send the sound of the radio, or the TV with a selectable audio switch... It was amazing.
But this was over 20 years ago, so maybe I saw it bigger or greater than it actually was... Still great though.
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