It was time to replace the 5 year old Walmart pressboard TV stand. The desire was for as few open areas as possible - hide all the stuff behind non-glass doors and in drawers. This project had a ton of firsts for me:

Milling rough cut lumber

Resawing lumber

Breadboard ends

Drawer

Shop-made hinges

Seconds:

Mortise and tenon construction

Frame and panel

By far my largest and most complicated project. But I learned a lot, got to apply new techniques and ways of working through problems, acquire several new tools, and gained confidence for future projects.

I have some design features that I'm proud of. For the cord pass-throughs, I cut out a square section, and in that I mounted a 1x2 that I had cut a channel in for the pass through. I mounted that in the ply so that I had hardwood all around - no visible MDF core showing. I did that on the top of the back of the cabinet and on the shelf in the open area so that I could have stuff on either shelf. The opening for the pass-through is not visible at all in the finished product. The other big one is the door closing. I was going to have a sliding latch like in the concept I based it off of. That would have been the door pull as well as the holding mechanism. When I got into it though, I didn't like how the latches were coming out, so I routed some finger holds into the top rail of the door. I mounted magnets on the inside of the door behind the hinges to hold the door closed. I didn't want the magnets that stick out into the door opening or to see them when I open the door. They do the trick nicely holding it shut (and acting as a soft close) and they're invisible. I'd do that again.

Woods are walnut and cherry. The finish is 2 coats of tung oil (pure tung oil), followed by 3-4 coats of Arm-R-Seal Gloss, followed by 2-3 coats of Arm-R-Seal Satin polyurethane.

Next time, I would do under-mounted drawer slides instead of the side mount, leave more thickness on the panels before glue up, maybe use biscuits to help with panel alignment at glue up. I would do that finishing schedule again.