You appear to have good woodworking skillz, how about a frame that is covered with material and slides into the opening a pre-detrmined depth using some stops. something like magnetic cabinet (it's late and I can't come up with the correct term) thingies that hold cabinet doors shut. You could...
Greg I agree, I even looked at some prefab doors at Home Depot, but I had a hard time finding sizes I needed, and those were actually expensive. I had 5 doors custom made to fit my openings exactly (none were the same width, lol, but they were within an inch or so). It cost me about $140...
Chris Absolutely GORGEOUS!!!!! Now for the hard question. Have you added up your expenditures on this project? I estimated that I spent roughly $1000 in materials on mine using 3/4 Birch ply and having someone build the cabinet doors so I didn't have to. But the satisfaction of saying...
Mine does take up an entire wall (between 2 doorways) 11 feet wide, 9 feet tall. And it took about 2 weekends to get constructed by a friend who is into woodwork, and the next 6 months or so for me to finish (some trim work, getting cabinet doors made, several coats of paint, etc etc)
Hey Chris Look in this thread and you can see the start on the build I did around my 57" Toshiba. It's finished now and looks great. It's a little late right now to try and post finished pics, but if I can get around to it in the next couple of days I'll post some for you. I had 5 cabinet...