Q: I hate my current TV stand. My boyfriend is a musician, and he often plugs recording equipment into the electronics that are stashed in the TV console. It's too awkward to run the wires through the back of the credenza, so he just opens up the doors and reveals all the ugly wires and electronics in the TV console. As a neat freak, this bugs me, so I want...
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...to buy a new credenza that has some easy way of letting a few wires come out the front.
Ideally, I'd like something with a gap at the top -- imagine that the doors are 2cm shorter than the frame, so there is a gap over the top of the door where wires can come out. I can't find anything like that. An alternative is drilling holes in a credenza. I was thinking of taking the CB2 Halogen credenza (photo shown) and drilling some holes at the top of the left panel. However, I am a little hesitant about sticking a drill in the front of a $500 piece of furniture because I am worried it will ruin/crack the finish.
So here are my questions. (1) Have you ever seen a credenza with a gap like I described? (2) Do you have any thoughts about drilling holes in furniture without destroying it? Please help make a musician & a neat freak simultaneously happy.
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the ikea ps locker has holes in it already and is credenza shaped.
view juice's profile
Get a used console that has doors across the bottom and shallow drawers at the top - and remove the drawers.
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Hmmm...The "holes" you are referring to are called grommets (sp?) Anway, you can buy grommet covers perhaps at home depot (the black rim that evenly traces over the edge of the hole you made). I would buy a few of these and test it out a few times on some reclaimed scrap wood. The grommet ring should hide scratches caused by the initial cut.
Hope that helps!
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I'm the musician in a similar situation.
The neatest approach would be adding a (19") patchbay with front access to the equipment. You can hook up the existing equipment at the back and easily access them from the front of the patchbay so you can leave the equipment alone. This is what professional recording studios use to avoid cable clutter.
My own (cheap) solution is adding an extra cable to the input of the amplifier which runs out of the back of our "mediadressoir" and is neatly tucked away on an added under the cabinet. If i need to hook up a keyboard, computer, mixer etc. I just roll out the cable and hook it up.
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