Page 44 - TV lift cabinets

  1. Know Your Wood, Glossary of Terms

    When dealing with fine hardwoods and custom craftsmanship, as ImportAdvantage does every day building and delivering top-quality TV lift cabinets, many customers prefer to educate themselves in the terminology of wood and woodworking. So ImportAdvantage has compiled this resourceful glossary to increase your appreciation of the details we put in every TV lift cabinet we design.

    • Air Dried: Lumber dried naturally by the air.

    • Bookmatch: layers of veneer arranged side by side to resemble a mirror.

    • Common Grade Lumber: Lumber with defects, used in construction framing.

    • Dovetail Joint: A joint where the fingers are shaped like a doves’ tail, used to join pieces at 90 degrees.

    • European Hinge: A hidden style hinge fastened to the door with a cup hole.

    • Finger Joint: Long, tapered fingers used to join material together.

    • Grain: The appearance, size and direction of the alignment of the fibers in the wood.

    • Hardwood: Lumber from trees with broad leaves.

    • Heartwood: The wood from the pith extending to
    Posted on: October 11, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  2. Know Your Wood, Glossary of Terms

    When dealing with fine hardwoods and custom craftsmanship, as ImportAdvantage does every day building and delivering top-quality TV lift cabinets, many customers prefer to educate themselves in the terminology of wood and woodworking. So ImportAdvantage has compiled this resourceful glossary to increase your appreciation of the details we put in every TV lift cabinet we design.

    • Air Dried: Lumber dried naturally by the air.

    • Bookmatch: layers of veneer arranged side by side to resemble a mirror.

    • Common Grade Lumber: Lumber with defects, used in construction framing.

    • Dovetail Joint: A joint where the fingers are shaped like a doves’ tail, used to join pieces at 90 degrees.

    • European Hinge: A hidden style hinge fastened to the door with a cup hole.

    • Finger Joint: Long, tapered fingers used to join material together.

    • Grain: The appearance, size and direction of the alignment of the fibers in the wood.

    • Hardwood: Lumber from trees with broad leaves.

    • Heartwood: The wood from the pith extending to
    Posted on: October 11, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  3. Product Focus: Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet

    Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet

    If you appreciate the beauty and durability of oak hardwood, you will adore the craftsmanship of the ImportAdvantage Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet. Built by hand in a timeless, functional style of “Mission” furniture, this pop-up TV cabinet will be an appropriate centerpiece in any home.

    Sophisticated and solidly constructed of oak and oak veneers, the Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet highlights clean lines and a purity of functionality. It is absolutely timeless!

    Built with an integrated Uplift 3700 lift system, which can lift a flat-screen TV weighing up to 130 pounds, the Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet also features a built-in Infrared Relay System. The IRS allows you complete, uninterrupted transmission between your remote control and the corresponding media player.

    With enough room to store, lift and display a flat-screen TV up to 56” wide, 5” deep and nearly 33” wide, the Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet will work well in the living room, against a wall in the master bedroom or in an office.

    Take a moment

    Posted on: October 08, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  4. Product Focus: Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet

    Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet

    If you appreciate the beauty and durability of oak hardwood, you will adore the craftsmanship of the ImportAdvantage Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet. Built by hand in a timeless, functional style of “Mission” furniture, this pop-up TV cabinet will be an appropriate centerpiece in any home.

    Sophisticated and solidly constructed of oak and oak veneers, the Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet highlights clean lines and a purity of functionality. It is absolutely timeless!

    Built with an integrated Uplift 3700 lift system, which can lift a flat-screen TV weighing up to 130 pounds, the Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet also features a built-in Infrared Relay System. The IRS allows you complete, uninterrupted transmission between your remote control and the corresponding media player.

    With enough room to store, lift and display a flat-screen TV up to 56” wide, 5” deep and nearly 33” wide, the Craftsman TV Lift Cabinet will work well in the living room, against a wall in the master bedroom or in an office.

    Take a moment

    Posted on: October 08, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  5. Going Green in the Flat Screen

    In the U.S., it is estimated that 70 percent of all heavy metals in our landfills comes from discarded electronics, and since TVs are getting cheaper every year, that amount could easily rise. Already, ImportAdvantage has discussed the importance of recycling your old TV lift cabinet by repurposing it or giving it to a shelter or charity.

    However, the Tel Aviv University is the first to discover that a new nano-technology may be able to “green” the optics used in flat-screen TVs, making them more environmentally friendly. The new technology is a form of biological material that creates light via light-emitting diodes (LED), reducing the need for toxic heavy metals in TV sets.

    Not only would this new technology be more environmentally-friendly, it could produce a higher quality picture, too, by improving the TV’s resolution. Production of these new TVs is still many years away, as the discovery was just released this past August, but it is an encouraging step in the right direction.

    ImportAdvantage

    Posted on: October 07, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  6. Going Green in the Flat Screen

    In the U.S., it is estimated that 70 percent of all heavy metals in our landfills comes from discarded electronics, and since TVs are getting cheaper every year, that amount could easily rise. Already, ImportAdvantage has discussed the importance of recycling your old TV lift cabinet by repurposing it or giving it to a shelter or charity.

    However, the Tel Aviv University is the first to discover that a new nano-technology may be able to “green” the optics used in flat-screen TVs, making them more environmentally friendly. The new technology is a form of biological material that creates light via light-emitting diodes (LED), reducing the need for toxic heavy metals in TV sets.

    Not only would this new technology be more environmentally-friendly, it could produce a higher quality picture, too, by improving the TV’s resolution. Production of these new TVs is still many years away, as the discovery was just released this past August, but it is an encouraging step in the right direction.

    ImportAdvantage

    Posted on: October 07, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  7. Turn Family Heirlooms into State of the Art TV Lift Cabinets

    Perhaps you or your spouse inherited an antique curio cabinet or china hutch, but you’re not quite sure what to do with it. Putting it in storage seems disrespectful, and selling it is out of the question. But it doesn’t match any of your other furniture and you’re not excited about it drawing attention away from your other fine furniture pieces. What’s the answer?

    The answer is to make it the focal point of any room by converting it to a custom TV lift cabinet with an ImportAdvantage Uplift mechanism, which quietly raises and lowers your flat-screen TV with the touch of a button. With models available that lift TVs up to 150 pounds, it’s easy to find one perfectly suited to your family heirloom.

    By creating a custom TV lift cabinet, you’ve just turned a potential eyesore into eye candy. Your guests will be amazed by how you made a dated piece of furniture into a modern work of art.

    With how easy it is to install an Uplift mechanism, you may start spending your weekends antiquing, looking

    Posted on: October 05, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  8. Turn Family Heirlooms into State of the Art TV Lift Cabinets

    Perhaps you or your spouse inherited an antique curio cabinet or china hutch, but you’re not quite sure what to do with it. Putting it in storage seems disrespectful, and selling it is out of the question. But it doesn’t match any of your other furniture and you’re not excited about it drawing attention away from your other fine furniture pieces. What’s the answer?

    The answer is to make it the focal point of any room by converting it to a custom TV lift cabinet with an ImportAdvantage Uplift mechanism, which quietly raises and lowers your flat-screen TV with the touch of a button. With models available that lift TVs up to 150 pounds, it’s easy to find one perfectly suited to your family heirloom.

    By creating a custom TV lift cabinet, you’ve just turned a potential eyesore into eye candy. Your guests will be amazed by how you made a dated piece of furniture into a modern work of art.

    With how easy it is to install an Uplift mechanism, you may start spending your weekends antiquing, looking

    Posted on: October 05, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  9. Breaking News: Consumer Product Safety Commission Urges Securing TVs

    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced a reminder to all parents that they take extra precautions in their homes to inspect and secure TVs, furniture and appliances. The CPSC estimates that, on average, one child dies every two weeks due to tip-overs.

    Between 2000 and 2008, the CPSC received reports that nearly 200 children eight years old and younger died from tip-overs, and 93 percent of those 200 children were five years old and younger.

    Astoundingly, 16,000 children five years old and younger were treated between 2000 and 2008 in emergency rooms due to injuries sustained by TV, furniture and appliance tip-overs.

    Thankfully, ImportAdvantage’s TV lift cabinets offer the safety and security to prevent accidental tip-overs by keeping TVs and media players tucked away in handcrafted cabinets. The stable, quiet TV lift mechanisms ImportAdvantage uses in its pop-up TV cabinets can hold up to 150-pound flat-screen TVs while also keeping them secured at the base, preventing

    Posted on: September 27, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann
  10. Breaking News: Consumer Product Safety Commission Urges Securing TVs

    The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced a reminder to all parents that they take extra precautions in their homes to inspect and secure TVs, furniture and appliances. The CPSC estimates that, on average, one child dies every two weeks due to tip-overs.

    Between 2000 and 2008, the CPSC received reports that nearly 200 children eight years old and younger died from tip-overs, and 93 percent of those 200 children were five years old and younger.

    Astoundingly, 16,000 children five years old and younger were treated between 2000 and 2008 in emergency rooms due to injuries sustained by TV, furniture and appliance tip-overs.

    Thankfully, ImportAdvantage’s TV lift cabinets offer the safety and security to prevent accidental tip-overs by keeping TVs and media players tucked away in handcrafted cabinets. The stable, quiet TV lift mechanisms ImportAdvantage uses in its pop-up TV cabinets can hold up to 150-pound flat-screen TVs while also keeping them secured at the base, preventing

    Posted on: September 27, 2010
    Posted by: Kerry Mann