Who of us does not have old furniture or household appliances that have been stored for decades without use, but it is a pity to throw it away. But even an old tube TV, for example, can be turned into an original thing that will come in handy on the farm. As it turned out, it took a minimum of time and money to purchase additional materials, and the new thing will please the eye for more than one year.
If any of you has an old tube TV, released in Soviet times, on the balcony, attic or in the garage, do not rush to get rid of it. As it turned out, you can make a useful thing out of it, you just have to show your imagination and spend a little material, time and effort. This is exactly what Irina (an aspiring blogger) did with her husband, who built a shelf on legs for storing books in the country from improvised materials.
Before starting the conversion, the TV should be cleaned of dust and dirt, remove all the elements inside the frame. For transformation, you only need its outer shell. The inside of the frame can be painted white or in some other color, it all depends on preferences and the place where the shelf will be located.
While the paint dries, you can search or create legs. If there are no old furniture with high legs left in the house, then it is easy to make them yourself. To do this, you can purchase the desired size of the slats or dissolve the existing board into 4 equal segments, making a small bevel.
All parts should be thoroughly sanded with fine sandpaper, cleaned of dust and fixed to the TV frame. Then the screwed legs need to be painted or stained with the desired color, and after drying, they also need to be opened with colorless varnish.
To increase the usable area of the mini-rack, it is advisable to install an internal shelf, which can also be cut from the board. It is up to each master to paint it or not, but the surface and all sections must also be carefully sanded. It remains only to make the markings and fix the shelf supports on the inner side walls. For this, the spouses used small corners (4 pieces), you can also screw on narrow slats, they will perfectly cope with the task.
Now you should think about how to close the back wall. For this, thin plywood, chipboard or thick cardboard are suitable. The material that is in stock is cut to size and put in order. If it was a new plywood with a beautiful natural pattern, the authors of Novate.ru advise you to simply open it with varnish, in all other cases, it is better to glue the wall with wallpaper, the remnants of which are probably in the bins of each families.
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It is also worth refining the lower part of the frame, because there are ugly holes left there. To do this, cut out a piece of plywood to size or again take thick cardboard and bring it to its proper form, and then close the bottom of the structure.
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After the back wall has completely dried, it is fixed on the frame with small nails, and the middle shelf is installed. Now the transformed TV can take up the allotted space in the interior of an apartment or summer cottage.
Those who decide to repeat the transformation can see the transformation process of the old TV in more detail in the video that Elena posted on her channel.
Creative owners of old furniture, which is already suitable only for throwing away, manage to turn junk really into "candy". How Svetlana did it when the craftswoman took up the reconstruction of the Soviet chair and at the end of the work received a comfortable piece of furniture that she had dreamed of for a long time.
A source: https://novate.ru/blogs/050720/55134/