If you can't beat 'em, join em. Or maybe 'if you've got it flaunt it' is a more appropriate phrase. While we tend to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to hide our TV's, an easier, and probably cheaper option is to try and blend it into the room.
If you haven't given up on the wall decal thing, over at Geeksugar, they have a nice example of blending a wall mount TV with surrounding and matching black wall decals.
What do you think? Anyone else out there doing something similar and want to share? In the mean time, here are some other examples of decorating with your TV.
-via Geeksugar
Well, I really LOVE how I have my old 1981 Zenith TV, and I'm very pleased that it's in an AT House Tour and in the book and stuff:
http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/011707curtistour/curtisinsideout18
http://gallery.apartmenttherapy.com/photo/011707curtistour/curtisinsideout12
But kind of like how Maxwell and his little crew moved on from the space that's in the book, I'm moving on from my TV, although it makes me REALLY sad.
I AM keeping my cabinet, and I'm retro-fitting it with a Samsung LCD HDTV, but I'm going to do a slightly different way of doing the gold "frame" thing around it. This time, I'm NOT going to actually glue the stuff onto the frame, though, I'm going to make a new frame with some MDF, and then do some filigree on THAT, and make it kind of like an oven door, through which I'll be able to take the TV in and out if it ever needs servicing, or replacing.
Anyway, I'm not sure what to do with the TV, itself, which still works. It's just that the color on it is beginning to cheat a little toward orange and blue, and I know I'll eventually HAVE to replace, so I'm doing it while that size is being made in an LCD. Anybody want a fun, interesting, old TV that's 27 years old but LOOKS like it's 127 years old? Maybe I'll do an AT classified; not sure.
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One of my biggest design pet peeves, if not the biggest, is when people act like their tv's are dirty things that need to be hidden. Show off your tv, don't stuff it in an old armoire with doors on the front, or hide it away behind something.
Maybe this bad habit will change now that tv's are so flat, sleek and minimal looking. That Samsung pictured above is a long way off from the huge, wooden cabinet of my Grandmother's tv.
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