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how does one go from an idea what if we could use the lg signature

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series OLED wallpaper tv to make a

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window to anywhere to the realization of one of the coolest

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projects that we've ever done

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well in my case you ask your wife to do it

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no one externally seems to have any idea what Yvonne actually does here but

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coordinating random design and construction projects including our most

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recent setup grade has been a much larger part of her role than anyone

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including her probably expected and that's not always an easy thing to deal

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with Linus asked me to help with this project and gave me zero instructions

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for what to do and how to film this or

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anything beyond make it cool and modern and have

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a window but like the window's a tv i confess i was pretty hands off on this

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one but let's face it if i was in charge we all know how it would end up looking

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so Yvonne brought in carpenter and super

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nice guy george to lend us his woodworking expertise and after much

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debate the decision was made that in order to make the tv as easy to remove

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as possible what we were going to do was attach it

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to an mdf backing with the factory mount

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then slide the whole thing into a hollowed-out cavity using the window

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casing to hold it in so step one

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go get the tv from the a-roll set we mangled the flat magnetic wall mount

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a little bit by over tightening it last time but we managed to stretch it out on

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our mdf getting it nice and flat well that is to say george managed to stretch

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it out on the mdf my attempt to screw it on was so crooked we had to completely

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redo it then we mounted the tv to it not

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entirely without mishap traced the outline to get the exact

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dimensions for our window and finally cut it out with a circular saw

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a table saw might have been a bit better but with a steady hand this should do

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the trick throughout this process Yvonne was

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working on the design aspects of the office upgrade removing the mouse wall

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clock and Linus media group sign and puttying over the incredible amount of

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damage that the construction glue did to the drywall

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next step cut out the hole

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there is a little bit of room for error here because we'll be adding a frame to

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make the window effect more convincing but

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if our drywall cutout isn't truly square

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we'll end up covering part of the screen in the corners

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so if there was ever a time for measure twice cut once this is it

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next some angle grinder tips from george

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followed by twisting out the rest of the metal studs before measuring cutting and

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adding wood framing on all four sides to

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friction mount the tv's backing so much for that work that we just did

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filling in this wall a few weeks ago now

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everything up until now has been done sort of on faith that it's going to work

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if the mdf backing or the hole in the wall haven't been cut perfectly or the

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flat ribbon cable on the back of the tv doesn't line up with our pass-through

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hole to carry it down to the hidden speaker bar below we could be looking at

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hours of cleanup

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oh perfect fit and it's good now obviously we wouldn't

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trust just friction on the back plate to hold the tv in place i mean come on what

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is this channel where we drop things you need the 100 silent edition which

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plugged in it's more like a a porta

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so the next step was to create a frame for the tv that's meant to be both

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aesthetic giving our recessed tv a more

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window like appearance and functional

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since it's foam backed so it can sit right up snug against the glass and it

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fits much tighter to hold the whole thing in

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after a few test fits it got a coat of black paint

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better to do that now rather than risk getting paint on the tv while cutting

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around its fine details now it's time to put the tv on its mdf

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carrier for the last time some duct tape pull tabs here should

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help us get the panel out in the future if we ever decide to tear the window out

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and relocate while mounting the tv we needed to be

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extra careful with the fragile flat ribbon cable a task made especially

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difficult by the extension that we planned to use to hide the speaker bar

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away under the built-in desk time now

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then for some putty touch-ups and a final fitting of the black frame and

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then you can rotate there we go yeah that works too this is actually when i

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saw it for the first time and i immediately wondered

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how exactly we were going to hook up the speaker bar which also happens to have

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all of the inputs and outputs for the w

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series OLED but i was assured there was a plan for

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cutting out some of the drywall and fishing it out they just apparently

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needed someone with really really small fingers to actually do it yes it's

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through there moment of truth time having survived a

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drop some bending and the last couple of days

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in a construction zone would the tv still work

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yes now the second goal of this project was

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to make the workspace match the hyper-modern design of having a super

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thin tv as your window so it was time then for a custom built-in desk with a

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purpose-built holder for the speaker bar underneath

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with a little bit of trial and error we managed to deal with the awkward length

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extension giving us a completely clean

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look without restricting our access to io

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here's how i kind of envision using the new setup

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a couple shelves some cable pass-throughs and some paint and we're

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getting pretty close to finished but

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between paint drying times and waiting for a few small items not least of which

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is some sexy brandon footage to play in the window brandon

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sexy footage getting the knot cool we're out of stuff that we can do for right

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now so stay tuned for part three which is going to be the glammed up tour of

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the finished ultimate productivity setup

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