Convert your old Entertainment Center! It’s so out-of-date!
Convert your old entertainment center to save decorating dollars
This is a shot of our current entertainment center. We bought it in the late 90’s. It’s a medium oak color and quite large as you can see. However, it’s in a our Great Room and when we thought about changing out the leather couches, from this lovely green leather number below:
we thought we might like to get a flat panel TV and a new entertainment center. So we started looking at flat panel tv stands. Any Entertainment Center that we liked cost over $6000 (okay, the Chief Blonde likes Big and Expensive things!) like the Entertainment Center below:
Well after much discussion with my practical minded Polish husband, we he decided that we he could rework our current entertainment center and make it look like the up-to-date massive entertainment center above that I loved. Here’s the work in progress. He has added 6″ on to the bottom and 6″ on to the top with a massive crown molding (this is a shot of the center unit but he has done the same to the side units). 
The next step is that he will stain it and turn it black with an overcoat (of I don’t know what). He will then sand the edges a bit to give it a distressed look. I am so excited to see it finished. I’ll make sure to give you a final photo of the finished product. Now I’ll have to figure out how to spend that $6000 that we saved….that we don’t have anyway…teehee!
See Part Two of this Article on DIY Project: Convert Your Old Entertainment Center :
DIY PROJECT: Renovate, Update, Convert or Replace Your Entertainment Center, PART 2
Blog Note: The Chief Blonde was given a Gift Card for this post.
The entertainment center looks astounding. I appreciate greatly hand-crafted furniture, so I appreciate your post.
That looks great! I always love looking on pinterest for DIY projects it is amazing what some people do.
it is going to look really nice when it’s finished.
You do so many nice projects Ty for sharing your ideas
Wow! This looks absolutely awesome!
Very cool ideas!
I love getting older pieces of furniture and restoring them or repurposing them.
really cute idea. I would love to do something like this!
I like the entertainment center. It looks really nice. Thank you for sharing.
Such a lovely DIY! I would love to do this!!
I don’t even have an entertainment center, so couldn’t upgrade it. (have no TV anyway).
That is awesome! So creative. This is project I can see us doing. Thanks!
You’re lucky he’s such a handyman! Mine probably could be, if he decided he wanted to be, but he does not have time for such projects. And I don’t have the patience in this area. Can’t wait to see the “after” photos!
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