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Savvy shoppers are already aware that this year’s Black Friday and shopping season will bring much lower prices on plasma flat screen televisions (If you didn’t realize this, see our recent post on this topic!). But did you know that instead of waiting to buy your dream plasma flat screen, and buying your dream TV lift cabinet first, you’ll be able to match your new TV to your TV lift cabinet?

ImportAdvantage has a full-featured and easy-to-read Measurement Guide available for our entire line of pop-up TV cabinets, so by getting your TV lift cabinet first, you have an even better reason to upgrade your TV!

ImportAdvantage TV lift cabinets can hold a flat screen TV up to 60” wide (see the Banyan Creek XL TV Lift Cabinet), so just about any TV can rest in a quiet and dependable pop-up TV cabinet.

The hardest decision may just be which of the unique designs best suits your home. From eye-catching centerpieces to slimmer foot of the bed TV lift cabinets, there is no doubt that you will find

The ImportAdvantage Wynterhall TV Lift Cabinet was recently featured on DIY’s television program, “I Hate Your House.” The show is very popular among DIYers who love to get their hands on projects that improve their homes and lives.

“I Hate Your House” features a brother-and-sister duo, Jonathan and Nicole O’Leary, who intervene when homeowners begin to hate their houses after living in them for a few years. The show prides itself on two things: teaching homeowners how they can improve their houses with a stronger eye for design and for featuring the latest, most innovative products available on the market.

This is where ImportAdvantage comes in – we have been providing the latest technologies and designs in TV lift cabinets for many years. It’s not hard to understand why top designers seek out the quality and dependability of our pop-up TV cabinets to pull together a dynamic and stylish room. And the Wynterhall TV Lift Cabinet, specifically, is one of our most flexible designs, allowing

The ImportAdvantage Wynterhall TV Lift Cabinet was recently featured on DIY’s television program, “I Hate Your House.” The show is very popular among DIYers who love to get their hands on projects that improve their homes and lives.

“I Hate Your House” features a brother-and-sister duo, Jonathan and Nicole O’Leary, who intervene when homeowners begin to hate their houses after living in them for a few years. The show prides itself on two things: teaching homeowners how they can improve their houses with a stronger eye for design and for featuring the latest, most innovative products available on the market.

This is where ImportAdvantage comes in – we have been providing the latest technologies and designs in TV lift cabinets for many years. It’s not hard to understand why top designers seek out the quality and dependability of our pop-up TV cabinets to pull together a dynamic and stylish room. And the Wynterhall TV Lift Cabinet, specifically, is one of our most flexible designs, allowing

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.

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.

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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.

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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