Features of a TV Stand
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Style! – Be Unique!
It’s the ultimate word in today’s society, isn’t it? Don’t just go for it because it’s all that’s available. Have a good look around and choose one that is just right for you. Most people are unaware of the many TV stand manufacturers and the large number of configurations available.
You can get a basic budget TV stand from companies like Jual Furnishings and Stil-Stand, who have many different variations of glass TV stands in different finishes. From silver or black legs and clear or black glass, to wooden laminate and veneer finishes, you can have your preference for a very competitive price.
BUT keep looking because companies expanding from the budget arena are manufacturers such as Custom Design, Quadraspire, and Atacama Audio (UK-based TV stand manufacturers). These offer a vast range of TV stands, hi-fi stands, and speaker stands, as well as CD and DVD racks with chic attributes including real wood, white glass, or white frames/legs.
Carrying on the style and getting down to the core of having a more custom experience with your TV stand are companies such as Spectral and Jahnke (both German companies offering superb build quality). They both have a vast range of products with every style or finish you can imagine. Spectral even offers products in over 1,950 different glass colours with options including real wood veneer and an abundance of colourful frame finishes. The sky really is the limit on choice and style!
Practicality and Functionality
At the end of the day a TV stand is a piece of furniture to put your TV on, but it’s important to make sure it is both practical and functional for your home and even better if it is attractive, too!
What people may not realise or may simply overlook is that there is great functionality in TV stands.
TV stands can provide many solutions, especially for tight living spaces where maximizing your space is key. Some configurations offer doors, swivel shelves, and storage for those items you use at or near your TV.
Saving Space
Traditional TV stands tend to be bulky, so if storage isn’t important to you and you want a streamlined look try the cantilever TV stands with swivel top brackets that can minimize the occupied floor space with a smaller footprint. With the increased need of unlimited configurations in today’s society, your perception of a TV stand style shouldn’t be old school. No longer is it necessary to have a TV stand that is the exact width of your TV. Designers have been innovating new styles that can support the weight of your TV while appearing to be little more than a single support. With the appropriate TV stand and a few common sense precautions there is not as much worry today as in the past about the unbalanced weight of your Plasma/LED/LCD TV tumbling onto the floor if the stand was smaller than the TV.
Moving TV Stands
Housekeeping got you down? No more worries. Castors are now available as optional extras for those times when mobility can be helpful. Need to clean the floor? Just roll it out and then roll it back. This can also give you more options for ideal placement when you have people around. There is one note of caution to be made about castors, depending on the weight of the items on the stand such as your TV, sky box, DVD and Blu-ray player it may be necessary to unload the TV stand before moving it to allow for proper movement. Nothing worse than getting your TV and TV stand perfectly placed and your items stored, only to have it break because there was too much weight on the stand and you neglected to check before attempting the move.
Cable Management Systems
A vast majority of budget TV stands tend to be 2 or 3 glass shelves with 4 metal legs in between each shelf. Most of these have a rear leg or something similar designed to sit at the back and act as a cable management system. This is usually a piece of metal or engineered wood/real wood with holes drilled in it to guide the cables through from shelf to shelf with the aim of hiding the cables behind the back panel. Each manufacturer has their own style but some manufacturers use a form of spiral metal coil or spring instead to guide the cables through to keep them tidy. This seems to be more of a budget solution as most have hollow columns in which to guide the cables through.
Other manufacturers and high-end AV furniture companies like Spectral, Atacama Audio, or Jahnke offer a more comprehensive and innovative cable management solution. This system design fully encloses the cables, completely hiding them from view. The encasement is usually located near the back of the TV stand or in the back leg, even offering at times, a guide to hold them in place so they do not move or fall into sight.
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