Can I have your thoughts on how to get a bigger TV on this wall?

[onewhippedpuppy]

Modern LED TVs are light. Even the plasmas aren't bad, I just hung a 52" over my fireplace by myself easily. A store bought adjustable mount will be fine.

In regards to height, ours is above the mantle and is fine. The room is long enough that you don't really have to crane your neck, in a smaller room I could see an issue.

[jyl]

Retractable motorized screen and HD projector. Have a movie screen when you watch Le Mans, the existing TV when you watch Oprah.

[scottmandue]

Tear down that wall!

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[LeeH]

Thanks for all the input. Unfortunately, I really don't like a TV over the fireplace. The movable mount is an interesting idea, but doubt I'd get spousal approval for that set up. Plus, there's the issue of a center channel speaker. This is a fairly big room with vaulted ceilings. We have a very large Boston Acoustics center that needs to be a part of the mix.

Can a chimney for a prefab fireplace run at an angle? Wondering if I could find a smaller fireplace that would fit in the hole on the left side. Really don't need the silly thing. We moved in this house in 1999 and have never had a fire in there.

[scottmandue]

Where is the center speaker in the picture? If it is above the mirror it is way too high.

I have a window behind my TV and my center is above the window... still too hight but it works.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Thanks for all the input. Unfortunately, I really don't like a TV over the fireplace. The movable mount is an interesting idea, but doubt I'd get spousal approval for that set up. Plus, there's the issue of a center channel speaker. This is a fairly big room with vaulted ceilings. We have a very large Boston Acoustics center that needs to be a part of the mix.



Can a chimney for a prefab fireplace run at an angle? Wondering if I could find a smaller fireplace that would fit in the hole on the left side. Really don't need the silly thing. We moved in this house in 1999 and have never had a fire in there.

I just installed a natural gas fireplace with blower. The exhaust/intake vent comes out the top, makes an immediate 90, then goes out through the sidewall. The outside plate looks like an oversized dryer vent. It's remote controlled and puts out great heat on a cold night. They have similar units that run propane and wood pellets.

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by scottmandue

Where is the center speaker in the picture? If it is above the mirror it is way too high.

I have a window behind my TV and my center is above the window... still too hight but it works.

The center (Boston Acoustics VR920) is the black void directly under the TV.

[nota]

Originally Posted by jyl

Retractable motorized screen and HD projector. Have a movie screen when you watch Le Mans, the existing TV when you watch Oprah.

+1

BUT YOU NEED A DARKENED ROOM
or really spend a bunch for a super quality extra bright projector

or use a moveable tv that can be positioned at will
or a motorized mount

I would not mount a tv over a in use fireplace as it will cook warp or worse

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by nota

I would not mount a tv over a in use fireplace as it will cook warp or worse

No it won't. Over a true wood stove, maybe. Most residential fireplaces don't put out much real heat. But they look pretty. My brand new sealed natural gas fireplace with forced air fan puts out far more heat than our previous conventional wood burning fireplace, I doubt it is more than 2 deg F hotter a few feet above where my TV is mounted. Downstairs we have our TV mounted above a pellet stove which will make our basement toasty as hell if desired, again it is no hotter at the TV than in the room. Most modern fireplaces and stoves are well insulated, the heat is conveyed into the room via fan vs radiant heat. An old school cast iron wood stove would be the biggest exception, as the actual stove itself gets hotter than hell.

[rusnak]

I wouldn't touch a thing since you're selling the house. Any serious buyer should not be fazed by the living room. If they are, then lower the price by what you would have spent on the modification. Then the buyer can make the wall changes how he sees fit.

[GWN7]

Knock the wall out, replace with full glass and put one of these in the yard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoW-SmHMn4

[porsche4life]

Knock the wall out, replace with full glass and put one of these in the yard:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoW-SmHMn4

Lee, if you go that route give me a jingle. We make screens way bigger than that! . Got the sound system to match it too.

[slodave]

Originally Posted by porsche4life

Lee, if you go that route give me a jingle. We make screens way bigger than that! . Got the sound system to match it too.

But are they LED? And do they say "Porsche" on them?

[porsche4life]

Yes they are LED, and we can put Porsche on it.

[slodave]

Then I'm confused. How can Porsche offer the "world's largest" outdoor T.V.?

[porsche4life]

Marketing....

Call it whatever you want, its just a big LED screen, any number of companies make them a helluva lot bigger than that!

[GWN7]

The video was from 2012......

[porsche4life]

And it wasn't that impressive in 2012 either.

[javadog]

No matter what you choose to do, it's not "major" construction. Sometimes, if you think that way at the outset, you end up choosing a poor solution to a problem that won't make you happy in the long run.

So, rip it all out and start from scratch.

Decide if you want a fireplace. If not, and if it doesn't adversly affect the house value when you sell it, take it out. Position the TV in the center, at eye level. Build cabinets to accomodate the TV, center and front speakers, electronics and the rest of it. Hide things like DVD storage. Include some open shelving, if your wife like to display knicknacks.

If you keep the fireplace, consider a mount like Moses proposed. If the wife doesn't want to look at a TV all the time, consider restractable doors to hide it when not in use. Consider upgrading your speakers and electronics while you're at it.

Make the whole thing a balanced, attractive focal point for the room, or build it in such a way as to blend in, if that would be better suited to the rest of the room, which we cannot see. Consider a nice pice of art to go in front of the TV, if the wife wants to hide it. You can get all sort of mounts and it wouldn't take much to engineer a mount that would allow the TV to retract behind a painting when not in use.

Lots of possibilities...

JR

[stomachmonkey]

Rip everything out.

Stud and sheet rock a wall in front of the existing wall.

Get a 60-70" TV.

Frame the new wall for a "window" the size of the TV.

Hang a video camera outside that captures the exterior view of the side of the house.

Run the feed as your screensaver when not watching TV.