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If you have a flat sheet of MDF for the door, 15mm minimum for the hinges and use a kitchen style cabinet hinge your biggest problem is choosing the right spec of hinge and drilling a big hole in the back of the door. So maybe some tooling costs if you don't already have a drill bit for that job.
I would avoid a flat mdf door if you want to fix a hinge into the edge, they usually pull out again as MDF is not designed to be fixed in like that.
So then you might decide to have inset doors with normal hinges and that means stiles and rails with a panel. This is where your joinery techniques will be challenged producing a flat/square frame with an inset panel.
Since you want a modern style you will probably avoid this anyway and use an overlaid door, make a square mdf box as large as you can fit in the alcove , place it on a frame which is levelled off the floor, fix to the walls and add the doors (overlaid), then add a top to stand the TV on.
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Cheers. This is really helpful.
Having looked more at the Ikea Besta units, I think I'm going to modify a 2md hand double unit. Creating a 'square' box + material will probably be more time consuming and expensive than it's worth - especially thinking about the faff of the internal finishing.
So my current thinking is use a Besta as a carcass and depding on what I get hold of...
- a new top
- new doors
- modified 'rear interior' as the units of some are shorter than my 474mm max available depth
All this needs to be cross checked with my OH though.
- a new top
hugo7
Yes! This is the search term I need - too focused on the TV element.
Modern (or mid century)
Noted
Go on.