9 Free Entertainment Center Plans

Barn Door Media Console

This is a relatively small entertainment center console with the topmost surface reserved for a TV as well as an open shelf for components and two large doors to tuck stuff away. Decorative knobs are added as a final touch. This would be a great entertainment center for a bedroom or other small living area.

What you'll love about this plan is that every piece of the entertainment center is color-coded so it's super simple to refer to a specific piece out of the instructions and see where it applies in the whole project. It makes the construction process a lot simpler.

In addition to the general drawings are specific steps with real images. This is also helpful to get an idea of how the entertainment center should look with each step.

DIY Barn Door Media Console from Shanty 2 Chic

Farmhouse Media Cabinet

Here's a DIY entertainment center plan for a large farmhouse-style media cabinet. It features four doors with shelving inside for storage. Black hardware is added to really make the doors pop. This great media center plan makes the farmhouse look accessible for whatever style the rest of your home is.

The free plan includes a step-by-step building list, a tool list, a materials list, and a parts/cut list. There's also a video to help with how you get that farmhouse finish on the wooden doors. This moderate difficulty building plan can be completed in a weekend.

Farmhouse Media Cabinet Plans from Kreg Tool

Pottery Barn Knock-Off Entertainment Center

This stunning entertainment center is a knock-off of a Pottery Barn one that costs thousands of dollars to purchase. Her Tool Belt has this awesome entertainment center plan that has plenty of space and even deep drawers located on both sides of the bottom. The estimated cost to build this entertainment center is $300.

You'll really like the plans at Her Tool Belt because they include lots of up-close illustrations for a clear understanding of what you need to do to complete the project, including the specific dimensions of each piece and how they all fit together.

This plan also includes a table that shows all the cuts you need to make for this entertainment center, including the quantity, length, width, and thickness of each piece. It makes it easy to stay organized while you're cutting.

The instructions for building the different pieces of the entertainment center (the drawers, shelves, doors, and bridge) are broken up into their own articles, which you'll find near the bottom of this plan.

Pottery Barn Knock-Off Entertainment Center from Her Tool Belt

Modern Sliding Door Entertainment Center

This free entertainment center plan from Jen Woodhouse builds a large entertainment center that will take up a whole wall in your room. Sliding doors keep the TV hidden when you're not using it, and you can just slide them open when you're ready to watch. There are open bookshelves on both sides as well as the bottom of the entrainment center. This gives you plenty of room to store media, books, knick-knacks, or anything else you'd like to show off.

This is a modern meets mid-century style and you can change the whole look of it depending on what stain or paint you use to finish it. Hardware choice also makes a big impact on what style you want to convey.

Wisteria Inspired Reclaimed Pine Entertainment Console

The Design Confidential's entertainment center has a rather simple design - it has 6 drawers, stands at a height of 2.2 feet, and is 6.75 feet wide. The top drawers are open and the bottom drawers are closed. It's a long entertainment center without a lot of width to it. It may be just what you're looking for!

This plan is easy to follow because the tools, lumber, materials, cut list, and instructions are all neatly organized in their own sections, which makes reading through it very easy and simple to understand.

Illustrations of each step of the building process are shown along with written instructions and highlighted areas of the drawings show what you should be doing at each step, which really simplifies the entire construction process.

Wisteria Inspired Reclaimed Pine Entertainment Console from Design Confidential

Sectional Entertainment Center

Like most of these free entertainment center plans, this one shows real images you can follow along with as you read through the instructions. Before starting, you can read through the cut list so you can gather all the necessary materials before you dive in.

This particular plan is for an entertainment center that is 4.5 feet long. As you can see from the picture, there are six shelves that can be used for things like movies and a DVD player. A "storage" area for the cables is built in the back to keep them out of the way.

Sectional Entertainment Center from Extreme How-To

Do It Yourself Entertainment Center

Lowe's describes building this entertainment center in both text and picture form as well as through videos.

Very detailed drawings, a full tools and materials list, and a cut list give an overview to what you'll be doing before you even begin.

The estimated time to complete this project is 1-2 weeks, and it should cost under $500.

Do It Yourself Entertainment Center from Lowe's

Home Media Center Project

Rockler has this unique entertainment center plan that supports sliding out the TV and shelves to give easy access to all the cables.

In addition to the six shelves under the TV are four drawers on either side of the entertainment center.

Home Media Center Project from Rockler

Barn Door Entertainment Center

This free plan from Wayne of the Woods is for building an entertainment center that is a little over 4 feet wide that stands 2.5 feet off the floor.

This is an easy plan to follow because there are very clear illustrations showing the different sides and dimensions of the entertainment center, which gives a simple way to view how it will turn out. There are also detailed written instructions for building each piece.

Barn Door Entertainment Center from Ana White