Garage TV Shelf

March 25th, 2009

It’s Happening

Is it depraved to put a TV shelf in your garage?

I hope so, because I’m working on it. When my dad’s tenant ran off, he left some very nice furniture-quality plywood, and I just cut it up and made a platform to mount in a corner of the garage, about seven feet off the ground. How cool will that be? Watching tool videos while sitting on my Craftsman backrest stool. Too much.

The plywood was half-inch, and one side was beaten up, because the tenants were slobs. That worked out fine. I cut two pieces and Titebonded them together with the bad sides against each other. Now I have a one-inch piece that won’t bend with the weight of the TV. One brace should be all it needs. It’s clamped up right now, and I’ll finish after it has time to dry.

Here’s something really irritating. Even with a giant table saw at my disposal, I am not set up well to make half a three-foot square, cut on the diagonal. I can make the square, but after that, it’s a pain. Maybe I could have set it up against a miter gauge. Instead I clamped a drywall square to the wood and used it as a guide for a circular saw.

This will be fantastic. TV off the floor, scrap plywood out of the way, DVD capability established.

Oops, I need to add a second shelf for the DVD player.

6 Responses to “Garage TV Shelf”

  1. blindshooter Says:

    I have a tv on a shelf in my shop and love it. I can live in the shop if I want.

  2. Heather Says:

    No it isn’t depraved to have a TV in the garage.
    Our garage is aka The Mancave. That where the tools, the Wii, and a TV live. Some weekends I only see my husband and kid when they say goodnight, or tromp through the house to go to the bathroom.
    Getting them out of the house like that truly saved our marriage. LOL!

  3. Chris Says:

    Would you ever end up leaving the garage?

  4. Wormathan Says:

    Hoglodeck – Part Deux

  5. Russ Says:

    Safety rule: turn off the TV before turning on any power tool. You don’t want the potential distraction.

  6. David Says:

    I’ve had a TV in my shop for years. It has never been a distraction when running power tools because I placed the TV where I have to turn my back to it in order to use the power tools. Also I keep the volume set so that the combination of power tools and hearing protection block the sound of the TV. So when the tools are on, I can’t see or hear the TV.

    My wife jokes that if I ever put a bathroom out there I would never come back into the house. Which is ridiculous, the food and my guns are in the house also.