TV Stand For Game Consoles

TV Stand For Game Consoles IKEA 2019 Dave Delisle davesgeekyideas

Here is a TV stand for displaying game consoles behind glass doors. In my experience, glass doors are often a hindrance for accessing electronics, so I wanted a system where I can stow these doors on demand. This is ideal for an enclosed display case that is also completely accessible when needed.

TV Stand For Game Consoles IKEA 2019 Dave Delisle davesgeekyideas

Inspired by convertible automobiles, the glass doors stow on the fly. They piggyback onto side drawers (used for controllers and games) for the sliding/stowing mechanism. Now there’s no glass in the way of gaming.

Unfortunately, the glass doors are affixed to the drawers here. I went with this system because it was the simplest and most space-efficient. The glass doors could have their own dedicated stowing mechanism, but that adds more complexity. At least for this design, they can open independently:

TV Stand For Game Consoles IKEA 2019 Dave Delisle davesgeekyideas

A bit complicated, but I wanted something that would display everything nicely (while fighting dust), and open up easily for swapping games or to allow for corded controllers when needed.

This can also be used for other electronics, like Blu-ray players or stereos, I just felt the most usage would occur with game consoles.

8 thoughts on “TV Stand For Game Consoles

  1. Definitely like this idea. As an alternative for stowing the glass door, you could change the hinge so that the glass door can swing open until it lays flat on top of the front of the drawer it’s attached to. Maybe using something like the hinge of the Surface Book so it’d still look nice: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FmaRYeRh6nU/maxresdefault.jpg

      1. Hmm, not sure if we’re talking about the same thing. I meant if you take your last image/animation, and let that door continue to swing open a full 180 degrees so the glass is still vertical, but completely against the front face of the closed drawer. (Obviously this would require changing the proportions a bit so the closed drawer face is the same size as the glass door, and would be the reason for using a different type of hinge to allow it to open that far)

        This post also reminds me a bit of of a glass bookcase, where the door swings open and then slides in, though I think that’s an uglier option.
        Closed: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Of8AAOSwPfZZwuva/s-l500.jpg
        Open: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/2YsAAOSwQiBZwuva/s-l500.jpg

      2. No need to apologize, my original wording was pretty ambiguous without a visual! 🙂

  2. I Love this idea would like to see it in a cherry Wood color possibly it’s something I’ve been thinking about to my question is about stand up type game systems like the PlayStation i’d love to get this and cherry wood color just need to know if we can order this

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