How to Build a TV Picture Frame - The Easy Way!
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It’s no secret that I’ve struggled with the TV wall in our living room. We have a 70-inch TV (thanks to my hubby’s bachelor days) on a huge wall that somehow seems to overpower the space no matter what I do. For years, I’ve been wishing that for this dang television to break so that I can finally get a Samsung Frame TV to make my living room dreams come true. If you are unfamiliar with the Samsung Frame TV, please look it up. It’s the perfect mix of art + television.
Our giant TV is still going strong with no signs of breaking any time soon. So instead of spending my energy on trying to hide it, I thought why not embrace it? How do I make this TV look more like an art piece rather than an eye sore? My answer was to build my own frame to embrace this black box and cast a photo of a painting using our google chrome when not in use.
Materials:
Trim: After a trip to Home Depot, we landed on this composite trim. We liked it because it is super light, so not too heavy to hang on the TV.
Corner clamp
Miter box and saw
Double sided sticky tape - make sure you get one that's supposed to hold at least 15 pounds
Paint - I used a combination of black spray paint and gold paint for my frame.
Finishing nails
Gorilla Epoxy Glue
When measuring your TV for this project, be sure to measure the inside of the TV screen because that’s the size of the frame you will need to build. I wanted to cut my frame at a 45-degree angle in the corners, so I added 4 inches to each side to account for that. This is how much material you need to create your frame.
Once I got my material home, I was ready to start making my 45-degree angled cuts using my miter box and saw. I really suggest you using one of these for this project as it will make your corners look professional.
Laying my pieces, I took my measurements and measured the inside of the molding of each side. When making angled cuts, it’s important to keep the measurements on the inside and making the cut towards the outside of the molding. We learned this the hard way!
Once your pieces are all cut, you are ready to glue and clamp them down. First, using the Gorilla epoxy glue we glued a corner down, used our clamp for 1 hour and after the hour, we added a finishing nail to the corner. Repeat this step 3 more times.
Next, we had to drill two holes at the bottom of the frame because our TV sensor is there. After careful measuring, we used a similar sized drill bit and drilled our holes. Drilling the holes now is best so that you can minimize the look of them with paint on your next step.
Now it’s time to make it pretty! I used my favorite black spray paint. I love this one because it’s not too glossy and not too matte. I decided to add a touch of gold to give it that traditional touch that I love so much.
Once the frame was dry, we were really to hang. We decided on using double sided tape because the material we used for the frame was super light and we didn’t want the bottom to bow if we hung it from the top of the TV. We place 4 pieces of tape along the top and bottom and 3 on each side. Following the instructions on the tape, we pressed down firmly for 30 seconds on each piece of take to make sure the glue was activated.
It’s been several months of this project being completed and the tape is holding up wonderfully.
It even looks good with the TV off!
If you give this project a shot, I would love to see!
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