ASK AND HE WILL BUILD IT! I had been searching for a media console for our new TV room and fell in love with the Printmakers Media Console from Restoration Hardware! It had everything that I needed….drawers to hide all the wires and cable boxes, I loved the color {antiqued pine} and I loved the rustic, yet timeless look. What I didn’t love was the PRICE TAG! And handy hubby was not on board either. He took a look at it and without hesitation told me he could build it! I didn’t think it was possible, especially without any plans, but he did it!!!! It took him a few weekends over the course of 4 months to get it built and it turned out beyond perfection! I honestly tried to take step by step notes so I could share the build as a DIY but it got COMPLICATED! And hubby said he would feel awful if he missed something and shared the DIY! I did take some pictures of the process that I will share here so you can get a sense of how it was built. I truly love it and it is a piece we will treasure forever in our home!
We built ours a bit smaller in length than the Restoration Hardware one. That is the best part of building furniture! You can customize it for your space! The top and bottom drawers are pull out where we store extra remotes, DVDs, etc and the middle drawers are both pull down with hinges. This may have been the hardest part for hubby to figure out and build but he did it! We store our cable boxes and DVD player in here.
The whole piece is stained in my go-to stain mix! After some trial and error, I found a combo that replicates the same Restoration Hardware stain that I love! It is one coat of Minwax Provincial, let it dry. Then one coat of Minwax Classic Gray. The gray stain takes away any orange or yellow undertones in the wood. It truly is my favorite stain mix and one I have used on many pieces in our home. I always finish off any piece with at least one coat of a water based, poly stain in a matte finish. It really protects the wood from any water stains and is able to be easily wiped in case it gets spilled on.
Below are a few “in progress” pictures so you can get a sense on how it was pieced together. We used all pine boards from our local Home Depot store to build this piece.
To start, he built the front and back of the piece. After careful measurements, we decided on how long and high the entire piece would be and then figured out measurements on each drawer’s width and height. Thankfully we were able to find some measurements on the Restoration Hardware website which we used as a guide for the drawers.
After building the bases for the front and back, he built bases for eac of the sides and then glued and screwed them all together.
Then, using wood boards he covered and completed each of the sides.
Once the sides were set, he added boards to the top, in varying widths.
Here are a few pictures of the piece completed, without the drawer fronts. The middle drawer, since it is pull down and would be holding electronics required a bottom he built using wood boards, cut to fit.
Unfortunately, this is the last picture I got of the process. The drawers are in and we were waiting on hinges for the middle pull down drawers. Once the hinges were placed, I stained the entire piece, including the insides to complete the project.
If you have any questions about this project, please leave them in the comments below. Thank you!
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