Repurpose Hulking Vintage TV Units Into Cool Household Furnishings

Not too long ago, a nationwide transition from an analog to digital television signal effectively rendered perfectly good yet "technologically archaic units" obsolete....so out they went onto the curb (because very few of us like the idea of missing out on a crystal clear picture).

This type of thing has happened before, though. Everytime something new comes out on the market, we instantly want to give the old one the old heave-ho, and in the case of televisions and computers, they continually become more streamlined in appearance so naturally we want to be hip with the times.

By comparison, television units used to be way chunkier back in the olden days -- in fact, even if you've been hanging onto a set from the mid-nineties, it's STILL a skinny-mini compared to what was produced in the fifties and sixties.

While programs have been launched to recycle as many of the components from old televisions as possible, there are greenies out there who tend to lay their eyes on an old fashioned unit and recognize that it's ripe with DIY potential.  This post is for them...

You can probably tell by the dated appearance of this photo that someone was into DIY repurposing long before green was "a thing" -- this kitschy shag carpet chair pic was taken from the 1986 architecture book "Freestyle: The New Architecture and Design from Los Angeles" by Tim Street-Porter.

There are a lot of other things that you can do to turn old televisions into practical green decor pieces, such as transforming them into a dry bar...and let me tell you, what a popular idea that's been!

Photos like this one are plastered all over the internet, but you can always play with the theme a little and instead of making the focus on housing your liquor, you might want to instead contain your library of books, canned foods from this summer's harvest or assorted dainty dust collectors.

Or, artist Alpine Butterfly's red curtain model below could instead become a weekly showcase for a puppet show.... 

Just some food for thought ;)