Bell'O CW342 65" TV Stand for TVs up to 73", Espresso

I love the look of this unit and it fits all my equipment with plenty of room left over. I've got a 65" OLED TV on it and it's the perfect viewing height for my sofa, easy chair and from the kitchen while cooking. The only thing to watch for is to not screw the back cord handler (wooden piece) in too tightly since you won't be able to line up the side screws on the wooden "S" side braces for the middle metal shelf. I had to back them out almost all the way to get the bolts in and then tighten them up after securing the middle shelf. The back cord handler is clearly bending when all tightened up but you can't see it and it doesn't seem enough to cause a tension crack in the future. We'll see. That needs better engineering. Otherwise, I'd buy this again. No drawers or doors but I didn't want them and don't miss them.P.S. Do NOT open this container in your house. With the weight of the package and it's movement during shipping, the brittle polystyrene foam packing inside breaks up into many little pieces and you WILL be cleaning them up for what seems like forever. I know because I made that mistake. You are forewarned.Update 7/24/21: Solid unit, no regrets or issues. Easy to clean and move on plank flooring. I'd buy it again.Read more

First the good part. Once assembled, this TV stand looks elegant and sturdy. A very fine looking piece of furniture.Now the bad part: It took my wife and I about 3 hours (and a few "time outs") to set this up. Instruction manual is short with small fonts, and assembly is not intuitive or clearly explained. This was very irritating. Bell'o and its customers would be very well served is there was an instruction video on assembly. That being said, my LG OLED and Bose 700 soundbar look great on it, and it is easy to hide all the wiring.

Solid, sturdy, easy to assemble. Contrary to some reviews the instructions are very simple and straightforward. There are about 7 or 8 steps, each step has a diagram that makes sense accompanied by two or three sentences on what to do. The parts are individually packaged and labeled, the packets could be better designed but if you're careful you can keep the parts separate and organized. I've read some reviewers say they assembled it alone and while it can be done it would be a big PITA as you really need someone to help leverage on a few of the steps. All parts were included, there were no leftover parts. No tools were needed, an allen wrench that doubles as a phillips head was included and did the job. Unfortunately only two screws were phillips head so having to use the allen wrench was a bit tedious. The only problem I had was the final assembly step attaching the top shelf to the stand as the screws were shorter than ideal and the top shelf had to be squeezed down in order to connect with the screws. Overall the assembly took 1 hour 20 minutes and now my 75" TV sits upon a sturdy foundation. The three glass shelves are thick and solid and give plenty of room for my Blu Ray player, amplifier, receiver box, 3 speakers and TV. I could easily add a few more components if necessary. I like the design and appearance and especially like the 24" height of the top shelf which sits my TV on a nice high perch.Read more

This is a beautiful piece of furniture which I love. However it was an absolute nightmare to assemble. And included “particularly” LOUSY instructions... worsened by the makers apparent wish to save paper which made those lousy instructions and illustrations very difficult to even see. Their customer “service” phone number is (in)conveniently located in tiny print on the back which I could only read with a magnifying glass. My eyesight is 20/20 and I’m a skilled carpenter so considering my experience was so challenging I would not attempt this unless you’re sure you’re up for it. Plan 3 hours minimum. And by the way, forget any return options. You’re not getting all those heavy, complex pieces back in the box. Having shared all that... the manufacturer needs to step up their game a LOT... but I do love the piece.

Like others who have reviewed this product, I bought it largely on the Bell'O name.Apparently, that name has not been tended to over the years as well as I thought, and the biggest indicator is the assembly process.Literally on Step 2, I encountered the first problem. One of the cam locks (DSYF9) broke. The alloy they're made from is woefully unsuited. Fortunately (after some research, which is clearly what you want to be doing while trying to assemble a new $500 TV stand), I found that Lowe's carries these cam locks. So I drove over to Lowe's (not in the assembly instructions, so we'll call it Step 2.a) and bought a pack of 2.Then, when I attempted to install them, they worked on one side (the DSYF18 side), but not on the other (DSYF17 side). Turns out (after more troubleshooting), the hole (in DSYF16, into which the cam lock fits) was not drilled to the correct depth, so the head of the cam pin would not engage correctly. I ended up just putting the cam locks in and sticking the cam pins through and just leaving them loose - largely on the basis that I could see that in a future step, these three pieces would be joined together again anyway (Step 4, when you connect the Bottom Shelf Support Frame, DSYF19).You'd think, at this point, I could breathe easy...assuming that was my one failure and all else should be fine, right? Nope.As I'm connecting the aforementioned Bottom Shelf Support Frame (in Step 4), 3 of the 5 wood screws attaching the square metal support to DSYF16 literally just fell out onto the floor. I attempted to screw them in, only to find that the wood had essentially been disintegrated by the original screwing-in process, rendering those screws completely useless. In a second stroke of fortune, I noted that nothing rests on that square metal piece, so it is ostensibly just there to provide stabilization to the wood piece that makes up the front face of the bottom of the stand (again, DSYF16). So, I continued assembly with just 2 of the 5 wood screws holding that square metal piece in place.I made it to about Step 7 before the allen screws became annoying.And it wouldn't be so annoying if the connections were loose enough where you could finger-tighten the screws until using the wrench to truly secure them, but the connections are really tight in many cases.The next bit of fun was on Steps 8, 9 and 10 (round bars, DSYF12/13, and top front support, DSYF15).The holes at the bottom of the bars weren't properly aligned with the flaps at the top, so when I secured the bars with the screws at the bottom (DSYF4), the flaps weren't lined up right with the holes in the top front support bar. So I had to loosen the bottom screws, align the holes, tighten the top front support bar screws, then re-tighten the bottom screws...which was a challenge, because of course now they weren't aligned properly...reminding me of the pure joy you get out of tightening allen screws with a tiny allen wrench, particularly when there's not enough room to just spin the allen wrench freely (because the screws in question are right against the floor). Pure joy, I tell you.And for the finale...the top shelf (DSYF22) and its associated fasteners (DSYF5 and DSYF10).The process of trying to align the holes in the top back support bar (DSYF14) with the holes in the top shelf connectors is nothing short of ludicrous. The shelf is heavy enough where it's not easy to manipulate (and you don't really just want to throw around a piece of glass as you're trying to get it secured), and to boot, you have to try to do this alignment process upside-down, because that's the only way you can even possibly see the where the screw is in relation to the shelf connector hole.I say again: ludicrous.Only to be made worse by the fact that because of how this entire thing went together (small misalignments of holes all along the way), by the time you reach this step, the top of the bars and the top of the top front/back support bars are not all at exactly the same height. Result? You have to push down (or pull up, perhaps) to get the holes to properly align to connect the DSYF10 screws between the bars and the top shelf connectors.Most folks will be like "Uh...so?" but a bit of engineering clarity here...Having to do that means you're putting that piece (the top shelf, in this case) under bending stresses. Glass doesn't like that. Like...glass will break with not too much bending stress put on it. Yes, the top shelf is designed to support 125#, but we're talking about stress that isn't accounted for (and thus, specifically designed to support). You can choose not to believe me if you like, but I'm just telling you: having to force the glass into place to get the screws to engage correctly is not good.Someone may ask, then: "Why did you give it three stars?"The stand does appear to hold my 75" (82#) TV just fine (for the better part of 2 hours thus far, anyway).But the issue with the assembly process is that it absolutely destroys the confidence that I've bought a quality product. Are those cam locks/cam pins somehow critical to the stress loading? How about those 3 wood screws that just fell out on their own?It's one thing to have everything not align just perfectly. But the sheer number of issues in the assembly process dropped the confidence I have in this product significantly, and where I assumed I'd be rating a Bell'O product at 5 stars when I bought it, that drop in confidence equates to 3 stars.The biggest reason I'm sticking with it at this point is because it'd be almost impossible to return, and it's one of the only TV stands I could find that would support my TV and that has a middle shelf that fits an 8.5" tall center channel speaker.Read more