It’s the eternal interior design conundrum: where to position the TV? Here, we share inventive ways to help disguise your screen or even make it disappear altogether.
Who hasn’t been there? The debate on where to position the television is a conversation repeated in many a household. The ‘fors’ want it as big as can be and easy to access; the ‘againsts’ want it tucked away, not disturbing the serenity of the room scheme. Luckily, these days, solutions are plentiful and designed to please everyone. Read on for our suggestions.
CAMOUFLAGE
That blank, black rectangle that threatens to dominate your living space can quite easily be camouflaged by positioning it against a dark painted or papered wall where it will ‘melt’ into the surrounding shadow until it is turned on. Strong, deep paint shades like Navy or Constable Green are perfect for this purpose.
SURROUND
You can disguise the TV by integrating it into a gallery wall of picture frames of varying sizes. Similarly, you can surround the screen with bookshelves. Both will distract the eye when the television is not on. For the latter, a modular TV cabinet, like that in the Chawton collection, gives you freedom to build up the look of fitted cabinetry and shelving but bespoke it to your space.
HIDE
Often the best way to tuck a TV out of sight until required is inside a cabinet. The elegant new Henley TV cabinet is a showstopping piece of furniture and provides a generous home for a screen alongside storage for accessories.
CONCEAL
Interior designer Jessica Horton, of the studio Deorling, created an ingenious solution to conceal a living room TV in one of her projects. Bespoking the classic, fitted alcove shelves and cupboard unit on one side of a fireplace, Jessica commissioned a narrow faux shelf ‘door’ to sit on hinges that would swing open to allow a wall-hung TV to be pulled out from behind it. When not in use, the shelf ‘door’ fits seamlessly back in place.
DISGUISE
Neptune co-founder John Sims-Hilditch fell into the ‘againsts’ camp and decided to do something about it, so he worked with the design team to create the Lynton TV mirror. The mirrored frame sits over a wall-hung flatscreen and doubles as a mirror when the screen is turned off. The trick is to make sure it looks like a mirror, so don’t hang it too low on the wall.
DISPLAY
Our homes should feel relaxing places, so for some, that means the TV is a focus. The Henley curved TV cabinet tapers at the back, allowing it to slot neatly into the corner of a room while media equipment can be tucked away in the cupboard below. Or our new Colworth TV cabinet is slim and discreet, and its low level reduces the impact of an exposed television in a room.
So there you have it: proof that there is a TV solution for every space.
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