Samsung Frame tv dupe

DIY Level: Beginner Power Tools Used: Brad Nailer / Miter Saw

Finding the right place for a TV and media section in our living room has been a bit of a process. We first tried hanging it above our fireplace and over a few weeks I realized ho much my neck hurt from looking up so high every time we watched a show.

We ended up taking the TV down for our DIY shiplap wall in our living room but then decided to see how we felt without a TV in our living room. It was honestly pretty nice for a while, but this winter we realized how much we wanted to just cuddle by the fireplace and put on a movie. Now begins the journey of figuring our where to put a TV and how to not make it look like your typical media display.

I bought this media console from Wayfair that is black with glass doors. I wanted a glass door cabinet for a while now and finally made splurged on it and couldn’t be happier! I was between the Wayfair one or the black IKEA xxx cabinets. Ultimately, once we decided we were going to hang a TV over it I decided the IKEA one was a little too tall.

Now I had to decided how to make the TV not look like a TV too much. This is where our Frame TV Dupe was born.

I wanted the Samsung frame TV but didn’t want the price tag that followed it. Ev did some TV research and finally landed on the Samsung XXX. Now it was time to make it pretty (my job!)

Items needed for DIY TV Frame:

• 1x2x4 pine boards (4)

• Wood glue

• Wood filler

• Stain

Tools needed for DIY TV Frame:

• Miter Saw (Or Miter Saw Box + Handsaw)

• Brad Nailer

• Paint brush

Step by Step Instructions

1. Measure the length and width of your TV. Our TV was beveled a bit and we measured from the widest part on the TV.

2. Cut your pine boards at a 45 degree bevel cut.

   • 2 for the length of your TV (top and bottom)

   • 2 for the width of your TV (left and right side)

3. Make sure the pieces are cut to the right size before attaching them all together. I made an opps-y on the top piece the first time around and cut it 2 inches short.

   • Always remember to measure twice and cut once! Learn from my mistakes.

4. Use wood glue and brad nailer to attach the corners. You can buy a corner clamp to help with 45 degree attachments. I bought the wrong one and ultimately ended up doing this without clamps and it turned out great.

   • Pro Tip #1 : I always rub my wood glue around a bit on the piece of wood so it’s less like to gush out of the sides.

   • Pro Tip #2: Try to insert brad nails from the top and from the bottom so they are less visible.

     • I meant to do this and totally forgot on the left side. But nothin wood filler can’t fix!

5. Once the frame is built, do a dry fit to make sure the frame fits on the TV. Mine was sliiiightly larger from top to bottom but you could hardly even tell. I errored on the side of extra room, by adding 1/16th to my measurements, rather than it being too snug.

6. Once you’ve confirmed it fits, feel free to add an L shape bracket on the back to keep it from falling forward. I did this with 2 scrap pieces from the 1x2x4’s we cut in step 2. I attached it with brad nails from the back (about 2.5 inch brad nails.

7. Then I filled the holes with wood filler, sanded the entire frame just a tad, and stained it using the XXX.

8. Hand your new frame on your TV and make it stand out as an art piece!

If you are looking on how to add art to your TV so it looks like a picture, you can find a how-to on my TV Art blog post.

Let me know if you try this and how it turns out!

Cheers,

Michaela