I have an old small TV with a built-in antenna in my kitchen. Just bought a digital converter box and it's small and just sits on top of the TV - but you probably couldn't do that with a newer flat screen TV. If you can live without the premium channels in your kitchen, you MIGHT be able to feed the cable directly into your TV without the cable box and use the tuner on the TV to select channels. But that would really depend on both the particular cable company and your TV - these days not all cable companies still provide an analog feed and newer TVs don't have an analog tuner.

I'm also in search of a stand for 32-37 TV - it will be in a corner, but I'd be happy if I could find just a regular stand. Most stands currently sold are for larger TVs. Target has some. I'm looking for a medium tone wood (caramel color). I have the Kingston med bookcase and we are very pleased with it. It is in our formal living room which has dark wood -- my husband found it very easy to assemble and good quality for the price. THe price was increased this year -- we got it about $50 cheaper, but it is still a good deal for the quality and ease of construction. It looks great when assembled - no one would ever guess it is DIY furniture -- nothing like what is sold at walmart or target. (very hard to find). It is hard to find stands for smaller TV, even regular ones. Target has some. I'm looking for a med toned wood which is hard to find.

Behind our TV is an electrical outlet and a cable outlet (the one with the little round cable thing that you screw the cord onto. The tv is plugged into both. The cable outlet runs into the closet on the left side of the photo. That is where all of our things are hooked up. The cable is screwed into a box, in the closet, which is made for remote sensors. There are "outlets" on the box, which you use to connect your dvd/vcr/satellite/surround sound into. The remote sensor is installed near the bottom left of the fireplace. But you can also get a sensor that just peeks out from your tv...very small and not noticeable. There is a basic cable wire (very cheap) that runs from the sensor on the wall, into the closet and also plugs into that same box as everything else. Then there are small sensors that you place on your dvd player/satellite receiver/surround sound. They just stick on the front of them. Now you can control all of your items even though you can't see them, via the remote sensor. I'm sure this sounds completely confusing, because I'm not good at explaining things like this. All of our wires do run through the walls, but you can also run them through the attic if you need to, or just do small holes, or even just "hide" the necessary cords. We have just one cable cord that goes from the box behind the tv into the closet, and then one cable cord that goes from the remote sensor on the wall into the closet. So we only really ran 2 cable cords. We purchased our supplies from smarthome.com. The whole setup was under $100.

My 36" corner cabinet has a measured max opening of 15 1/2" diagonal but there is a little loss due to the hinges. Are you sure you don't have a 33" corner cabinet? Those would have a useable diagonal opening of about 10-11". Or is there a large face frame on yours that reduces the opening?