Flat Track Hardware Ideas – Entertainment Centers

Flat track hardware is popping up everywhere, and its applications seem everywhere. Given its basic and simple nature, and easy installation, homeowners are using it for all different kinds of things. The most common use, of course, is as the movement system for full-sized doors separating rooms such as kitchens and dinning rooms, or living rooms and studies. Yet many other unique applications are also being seen. One application that will be highlighted today is as the cover to an entertainment center.
Entertainment centers are most commonly set-up as shelving units designed to house a TV, DVD player, DVD’s, cable box, and some sort of stereo system. Typically these are built to be free standing units that can be placed anywhere in a room.
Yet in some cases, especially with the advent and popularity of flat screen TVs, people have built their entertainment centers into the wall of a room. The advantage to this is that you create a unique and interesting interior design that will hardly be common among your friends. The disadvantage is that once you build into the wall, that’s the final resting place of the TV and its accompanying components. Unless of course you decide to place the TV elsewhere and replace it with a tropical fish tank, something that looks awesome if it falls within your budget!
Returning now from our underwater tangent to the topic at hand, these in-wall entertainment systems look great and really add to the decor of the room. This is where the flat track hardware comes in. Homeowners who have built in-wall entertainment systems have used flat track hardware to slide small doors or coverings to the open wall space of the entertainment center when its not in use. This is something that we’ve noticed and are particularly pleased with.