The television is the bane of many otherwise well-thought-out living spaces. The problem is compounded when you're dealing with tight spaces, as every little move packs a punch in a small apartment. Here, we take a look at some successful television layouts from Apartment Therapy House Tours...
FIRST ROW
1: Glorily and Jeremy's Evolving Wicker Park Victorian
2: Lance & Harry's Merged Mini Masterpiece
3:Cassandra's "Flea Market Edgy" Abode
4: Diana and Mark Create a Home for Creating
5: Ben's Mid-Century Mecca
SECOND ROW
6: Maxime Masters a Rental
7: Jay's Chelsea Renovation
8: Tara's Tiny San Francisco Hodge-Podge
Each of these restrains from putting full focus on the television while still allowing comfortable viewing when desired. It's a tough balance to strike, and the subject comes up a lot in discussions of arranging living rooms. Most of the solutions in these examples rely simply on placement to de-emphasize the TV.
Have you had success with this in your own home? Please share any advice in the comments below!
Originally posted at New York/Regina Yunghans.
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In lieu of displaying my TV all the time, I converted a cabinet into a TV Lift cabinet.
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My solution was to place my two couches facing each other with a coffee table set center, and the television being on the wall perpendicular to the seating area. The couches are also on rollers so if you want to move to a full on viewing position you just scoot them around. Pulls focus off the TV while also allowing people to comfortably watch a movie in small groups or restructure the seating for larger ones.
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My solution was to embrace the fact that watching television is something my wife and I enjoy immensely. And we have no shame in that. In fact, we view people that dislike television with smug indignation. The television in our home does not impose on our superb tastes in décor, nor does it prohibit fulfilling human interaction and exchange of intriguing dialogue when we entertain guests. I look forward to the day when the anti-television contingent embraces the reality that they…indeed..are the ones most unfulfilled in this modern society.
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I can't say that I disguise mine, but I do decorate around it, so it's a tad camouflaged. I put a shoji screen with shelves from homedecorators.com behind the tv stand, so that it can draw the eye up away from the tv when you're not focused on it. Here's a pic... I've since decorated more on the shelves with kokeshi dolls etc.
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