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Nearly all of ImportAdvantage’s TV lift cabinets have their styles deeply rooted in major periods of furniture design, which highlights the knowledge and respect our craftsmen have for our products. Furniture styles have a long, important and varied history (dating back as far as the Neolithic period), and here is an overview of two key styling periods and how they helped shaped a couple of ImportAdvantage’s TV lift cabinets.

Baroque Style

During the 17^th and 18^th centuries, the most common furniture style was Baroque, an ornate and detail-oriented style that featured intricate carvings on arms of chairs, headboards and table feet. The most common woods used during this period were oak and walnut, as they were sturdy and easy to carve. One fine example of Baroque influence on ImportAdvantage’s TV lift cabinets is the Willowcraft TV Lift Cabinet.

Contemporary

The 19^th and 20^th centuries gave rise to the modern and contemporary styles of American furniture. Largely credited to Charles

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

As many satisfied customers already know, an ImportAdvantage TV lift cabinet is handcrafted from the finest selection of hardwoods available by skilled woodworkers who have many years of experience designing and building fine furniture.

But perhaps you would like to craft your own TV lift cabinet and you are looking for a way to get more deeply involved in the mastery of woodworking. ImportAdvantage has compiled a list of useful resources for the aspiring woodworker because we know the value of fine workmanship.

So whether you’re ready to tackle an ornate pop-up TV cabinet or just want to spend time whittling on the back porch, here are a few sites that should help you get started. And take a moment to let us know what project you’re planning to start.

Woodworking Resources

• Will's Medieval Woodworking: Medieval woodworking techniques
• The Electronic Neanderthal Woodworker: Information on antique woodworking tools
• Woodworking Safety: How to be careful when woodworking in the home
• Woodworking

Straightforward and elegantly designed, the Biscayne TV Lift Cabinet from ImportAdvantage offers ample storage space with three drawers and three cabinet doors, which each have two adjustable shelves. The cabinet doors can be solid wood or speaker cloth, depending on your needs. Whichever door covering you have, though, electronics will still work flawlessly thanks to ImportAdvantage’s unique Infrared Relay System.

The IR relay system transmits commands from a remote control and repeats the signal to your enclosed media player. The IR relay system comes preinstalled and requires zero programming.

Another extremely nice feature of the Biscayne TV Lift Cabinet is its ability to hold a flat-panel TV up to 52” wide and weighing up to 130 pounds. The smooth-topped cabinet is built by hand from solid alder and cathedral cherry, and the fittings are brushed nickel.

Clean, simple and elegant – you can’t go wrong with a new Biscayne TV Lift Cabinet for your living room, master bedroom, or anywhere

In late September, CNN announced that a drastic flat-screen TV price chop is on its way, which means more people will be able to afford a quality LCD flat-screen TV. The drop is due in part to a historically large oversupply of LCD TV panels.

Most of the price cuts will come before this year’s holiday shopping season, so be ready to save some serious cash. Early estimates say that the “new” average price of a 32-inch LCD TV will be between $249 and $299 dollars, with some screaming deals floating around at $199.

If you’re excited about saving money on a new LCD TV, you will also be excited to know that you can save money on a flat-screen TV lift cabinet from ImportAdvantage. With factory-direct pricing, customers save an average of 50% off retail prices. By buying direct from ImportAdvantage, you cut out the “middleman,” which puts more money in your pocket.

So check out ImportAdvantage’s full line of handcrafted TV lift cabinets and protect your new LCD TV this season.

With the announcement earlier this month that Samsung is eyeing Google’s Android operating system for producing web-connected TVs, a new market for smart TVs will soon reach a peak, says a chief of Samsung’s television division.

Samsung Electronics became the world’s largest technology company in the beginning of 2010, so they certainly have the ability to drive new markets. The company estimates that the smart TV market will peak around 2012, only a couple years away.

With all the new hyper-convenient TVs that will begin to pop up, it will be another opportunity for ImportAdvantage to showcases its convenient and quiet pop-up TV cabinets, which are also “smart” in that they operate with a one-touch remote control.

ImportAdvantage always keeps up with the latest TV technologies, but the company shows its customers time and again that regardless of how advanced electronic technologies become, a quality handcrafted TV lift cabinet is the only way to keep them safe, secure and so easily accessible.

People are always coming up with cool and unique ways to entertain their guests, and there is no shortage of great outdoor bar and grills in people’s backyards. Now your backyard can be even more eye-catching with a custom TV lift cabinet that uses an ImportAdvantage Uplift TV mechanism.

Imagine watching NFL on an autumn Sunday afternoon while grilling burgers and drinking a cold beverage. Carpenters love working with our quiet and reliable Uplift mechanisms for all kinds of unique projects. Now you can dream up your ultimate backyard “tailgating party,” or provide some extra entertainment for your houseguests by impressing them with an outdoor flat-screen TV lift cabinet.

If you’re worried about cold weather in your area, people who have already built their dream TV lift cabinet made theirs small and portable (resembling our foot of the bed TV lift cabinets) so they could move the TV inside but still view it through a picture window or sliding glass doors.

Have you ever considered having

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

The Moderna TV Lift Cabinet is a work of customizable art, finished on five sides which allows it to work at the foot of the bed, in the center of a room or against a wall. A modern design built on sleek architectural forms, the Moderna TV Lift Cabinet can be customized by using cosmopolitan brushed satin, nickel-finished pulls or a traditionally-styled knob.

Constructed with alder wood and a cathedral cherry veneer, the cabinet is shipped fully assembled and ready for use. It comes standard with the Uplift 3250 lift mechanism and built-in Infrared Relay System, which allows you to retain full remote access to your media players while the cabinet doors are closed.

The Moderna TV Lift Cabinet can hold a TV that weighs up to 130 pounds and measures up to 44 1/2” wide, 5 1/2” deep and 28” high.

The reversibility feature of the Moderna TV Lift Cabinet makes it one of the most unique TV lift cabinets from ImportAdvantage, and it is also offered in a larger size, which accommodates TVs up to

While there are other TV lift cabinets on the market, none can rival ImportAdvantage’s quality, expertise and customer service. If you are in the market for a TV lift cabinet, foot of the bed pop-up TV cabinet or just a TV lift mechanism, take a moment to find out what really sets ImportAdvantage apart from the competition.

ImportAdvantage’s commitment to designing and manufacturing handcrafted TV lift cabinets from select hardwoods is founded on over 25 years of building fine furniture.

Every TV lift cabinet from ImportAdvantage comes standard with a free 1-Year In-Home Warranty that includes free tech support, and every customer has the option to upgrade to a 5-Year Total Package Warranty, which covers damage incurred by normal household use. Try finding that level coverage from our competitors!

With every order, ImportAdvantage provides free in-home “White Glove Delivery,” which means your TV lift cabinet is delivered and placed in your home by two qualified trades-people at no charge!