When purchasing a custom flat screen television cabinet consider your space and layout needs for your home entertainment room (see January 11th post).  Several other decisions will be required on your part as you make your tv cabinet purchase.  First, decide on the wood species.  Primary choices for wood species include regular cut oak, quarter sawn oak, maple, brown maple, cherry, walnut, hickory, rustic hickory, rustic cherry, elm and pine wood.  The wood species choice will impact the final color of your tv cabinet although you have unlimited stain color choices when buying a custom tv cabinet.  One stain may produce one color and look on oak wood while the same stain color will make the tv cabinet look quite different on a cabinet built with quarter sawn oak wood.  Next, decide whether you need an “open” tv cabinet concept or whether you want glass, speaker cloth, smoked glass, glass with mullions or wood doors.  Finally, you may choose the hardware to use on your flat screen television cabinet.