Custom Media Cabinet Part 11: Cabinet Installed

So I was going to make another video of the cabinet installation, since we were already at that point. Then I realized, I’d be showing a 30 second long clip of me screwing the cabinet to the wall. (I just secured the cabinet to the wall with a couple of 2″ drywall screws. The screws went into the backstrap that runs along the back of the cabinet and into a stud in the wall.) I don’t think you need to see that.

Let’s go ahead and skip that video and get right to the good stuff.. the pictures.

Here’s what our TV wall in the sitting room looked like just a couple of hours ago..

And here’s how it looked with the new cabinet installed…

Much better…

Looks pretty close to that concept drawing we made a few weeks ago.

Here’s a front view…

And that front view concept drawing…

So that’s it for this tutorial series. The only thing we have left to do is wrap the bottom of the cabinet in some baseboard trim to tie it into the wall and do a bit of caulking and touch up paint. If you’re interested in learning how to apply molding to cabinets*, you can check out the tutorial we did when we built the bigger unit. It’s the exact same process.

Next time you see this cabinet, it will be completely finished… and the walls may be painted too. We’ll see.

*Lisa actually really liked the look of the cabinet without the baseboard molding and was reluctant to add it. Then she saw the baseboard molding on the cabinet and thinks it looks even better.

Custom Media Cabinet Part 11: Cabinet Installed originally appeared on Our Home from Scratch on November 18, 2013.