NICO, I need furniture help...

[RCA]

Dear NICO,

I have been looking for a piece of furniture for about a week now. I have looked at tiny desks, hutches, coffee tables etc. I am desperate. Does any one know what this is called or does any one have tips on building one.


This image was sent to a custom cabinet maker I know and I figured he could have this done in 30 minutes. He quoted me $700 because he said "I need to setup a custom station to build something like this" and "I don't have an area ready to make this". The gray leg in the photo is there in case I needed the extra support. I plan on putting my 42" Vizio on it so I was shooting for about 100lbs of weight it could handle.

Thank you in advance,
RCA

PS: If any one wants to help me look for what ever this is, this is what it has to have...
- It has to be white
- Width: A range of 40" to 48" is cool
- Height: Is has to have 1ft of clearance.
Any more and the TV is way to high, any less my monitor won't fit under it.
- Depth: It can be anywhere from 8"-12" deep.
- I prefer legs but something like this is fine.

[RCA]

So far this is the best thing I found. Still not good enough. I would still need to do some modifications to it to make it work but then IDK if it will hold the weight...

http://www.csnofficefurniture.com/OSP-D ... P1159.html

[Dattebayo]

You don't need a custom table to put a 100 lb. TV on, you noob.

Go get a table kit from Staples or Office Max.

[naladude911]

[Dattebayo]

Hell, even Target sells furniture that will work for you.

[AZ89two4Tsx]

IKEA is s*** furniture. The stuff they sell at Walmart is usually better.

Why not just build the table yourself? Do you have the tools? You definitely won't need that third leg, at most maybe some triangle braces, or whatever you call them.

[Dattebayo]

You definitely won't need that third leg

MIDGET SAYS CUT YOUR d!ck OFF

lol, 5th leg, ya doofus.

[Mr1der]

s***, the vizio shouldn't be that heavy anyway...

I'm not up to par on the newer tv's, but LCD's aren't s*** as far as weight goes.

hell, at those dimensions, all you gotta do is run two boards on the front and back between the legs to brace the top and you should be able to sit on it if it's built out of plywood and you're liberal with the wood glue.

[RCA]

You don't need a custom table to put a 100 lb. TV on, you noob.

I don't want a custom table to put 100lbs on, I want to buy what I am looking for but I can't find anything 1ft deep, 1ft height clearance and 40" to 48" wide. I can't find what I am looking for so I figured I might need to make one.

Hell, even Target sells furniture that will work for you.

Again, I have looked high and low, even Target, Staples, Ikea and some random online only stores. Nothing

Go get a table kit from Staples or Office Max.

When I searched "table kit" on Google and Staples. http://i.imgur.com/KkxXa.jpg
What ever it is, it either doesn't exist or the name you gave me is wrong.

s***, the vizio shouldn't be that heavy anyway...

hell, at those dimensions, all you gotta do is run two boards on the front and back between the legs to brace the top and you should be able to sit on it if it's built out of plywood and you're liberal with the wood glue.

http://www.amazon.com/Vizio-P42HDTV10A- ... B000QGLRXM

It is listed at 85lbs so I would feel comfortable with a 100lbs limit. Also ply wood isn't a good idea...

IKEA is s*** furniture. The stuff they sell at Walmart is usually better.
Why not just build the table yourself? Do you have the tools? You definitely won't need that third leg, at most maybe some triangle braces, or whatever you call them.

I know Ikea furniture is shoty but I am only looking for about 100lbs here, but even then they didn't have anything I could use.

And yes, my biggest issue right now is tools. Right off the bat I just wanted to spend a day or two building, painting and getting it over with but my dad told me to give it a shot at buying one. So I did, and so far I can't find anything I can use.

Any tips on tools and building one?

Also did I mention that this thing would end up on top of a desk?

[Dattebayo]

You're weird. You want weird things. I bet you talk to yourself.

[Mr1der]

ply wood is a very good idea if you laminate it. or you can even spend a little more on the sheets and get a walnut oak or whatever veneer you want on it and stain or just lacquer it. they make edging you can glue on the sides so the plys in the wood don't show. You wanna do it out of real hardwood, you're gonna pay. Ply wood is much easier to work with if you're gonna do it yourself, hell, make a cut sheet and most places will precut to what you need for this. All you gotta do is get a nail gun or screws and some wood glue. A good random orbital sander wouldn't hurt either.

you go buy something from Wal Mart or IKEA and you're gonna get something made out of garbage a** pressboard or mdf and badly fitted with cheap little fasteners.

[ADDirishboy]

Dude, its a very small table. Do it yourself. Plywood not good enough for you? Buy mdf. Its very sturdy. Slap some laminate on it and your set.

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Why the hell would you want MDF over plywood?

Plywood is way sturdier.

[RCA]

Update:

Went to Home Depot and bought
- a 11" x 48" x 1" board that is meant to be a stair. Dude there cut 3" off the end. It is really nice, super sturdy and it has a "rounded" face so it looks better then a flat edge surface
- two 1" x 36" x 1" posts. Dude there cut it into three 1 foot lengths. Again, super sturdy. I won't be using all 6 legs, the original design was to have 4 legs on the farthest edges of the top section and one in the center... But I decided to move the legs more toward the interior. Like so:


The wood was sanded with light grit and primed. I will finish paint and assembly tomorrow.

Thanks for the info, tips and help NICO.

[ADDirishboy]

Why the hell would you want MDF over plywood?

Plywood is way sturdier.

I just like working with MDF more. We used a TON of it when I worked in cabinetry. Granted, everything we did was for fairly high end clients (Nordstrom, Build-A-Bear, Charles Schwabb, etc.) MDF is just easier to work with to me. One of the easiest things to laminate.

OP, glad to hear you got something that will work for you. Are you just painting it black?

[RCA]

Everything in my house is white...
So my desk is white and currently so are parts of my hand.

[Dattebayo]

Why are you putting it on a desk?

[themadscientist]

Yeah, get the Sjohrfleggitang table.

[bcar240]

Update:

Went to Home Depot and bought
- a 11" x 48" x 1" board that is meant to be a stair. Dude there cut 3" off the end. It is really nice, super sturdy and it has a "rounded" face so it looks better then a flat edge surface
- two 1" x 36" x 1" posts. Dude there cut it into three 1 foot lengths. Again, super sturdy. I won't be using all 6 legs, the original design was to have 4 legs on the farthest edges of the top section and one in the center... But I decided to move the legs more toward the interior. Like so:


The wood was sanded with light grit and primed. I will finish paint and assembly tomorrow.

Thanks for the info, tips and help NICO.

Sounds like you got it pretty much under control. I was recently building a wood workbench, but I needed it to be very sturdy and hold a lot of weight so I made some modifications. What I did was instead of mounting the legs to the table I mounted them to a piece of aluminum C channel (angle could work too) that was itself mounted to the wood and ran longways along the wood to the leg on the other end. This allows the aluminum to take the bending from heavy loads and the legs just have to support vertical loads. This should allow the top to support hundreds of pounds of weight even though it is only 3/4" thick. This is just something to consider just in case you wanted to beef up the top.

Here is a pic of the table, you probably would need those bolted on connecting pieces because your table is not as deep.

[RCA]

Why are you putting it on a desk?

Because my old desk setup was a laptop in the center and a plasma behind that. I used the plasma for gaming, watching tv and a second monitor at times to do school work but primarily to entertain. My laptop was such a POS. It was a 1.3GHz Celeron processor (smart phones are using 1GHz processors now), 2GBs of ram and Windows XP. As a student I felt the world passing me by in terms of software limitations. So I spent a few bucks and bought a budget desktop. Desktops don't come with monitors built in like laptops so I went out and bought an Asus 23" monitor. When it arrived it was a little taller than I thought. Although the screen has adjustable height, it doesn't go all the way down so the screen is about 14" tall, with the base it is about 18" tall. So I needed to lift my TV up so I can have the ability to use both monitors without one covering the other. Also lifting the TV up will open up a lot of space underneath the tv that wasn't there before.

TL:DR
- The new monitor I bought is too tall. It covers my plasma, so I need to lift it to be able to use both.

[Mr1der]

Why the hell would you want MDF over plywood?

Plywood is way sturdier.

I just like working with MDF more. We used a TON of it when I worked in cabinetry. Granted, everything we did was for fairly high end clients (Nordstrom, Build-A-Bear, Charles Schwabb, etc.) MDF is just easier to work with to me. One of the easiest things to laminate.

OP, glad to hear you got something that will work for you. Are you just painting it black?

if we used MDF in the buses, I think someone might try an attempt on our lives.

[RCA]

Now with conclusion...

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