So the tank sat in my garage for a short time while I searched online for stand/hood inspiration. For the stand its self I went with this RC thread for the structure.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1169964
As for what I wanted was a mixture of these

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and

This last one is of my father-in-laws new entertainment center he had just built. Like Hobogato he enjoys doing and is quite good at carpenter in his spare time and let me pick his brain for ideas and I even had some of my own we had tossed around during his building.
I showed my ideas to the house hold approval team (wife and the cats) and was told they wanted to have visual access to both the front and back of the tank. So my first idea of painting the back was thrown out of the water and we would be pulling the tank an additional 18" off the wall.