Travelling through Australia one of our AirBnb got cancelled last minute. Turns out the previous guests stole all the furniture. Thought AirBnb had gotten better at identity verifications to stop this.
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Do you guys think Iāll regret putting the tv above the fireplace? My only other option is between the 2 windows but I donāt love that idea as it will cut off the room with the couch. I feel like the 15ish feet length will minimize TVTOOHIGH, but Iām not sure. Wife really wants it above.
Iām watching a TV above the fireplace as I write this. I know itās āwrongā for a lot of reasons. But I donāt think it affects my viewing experience and I think that it is the place that aesthetically makes the most sense.
As a compromise, they have contraptions where you press a button on a remote and the TV mount lowers the TV when you want it lower for viewing and then pops it back up for the rest of the time.
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I just found out about those. If I proceed as planned Iām going to install this as the mount.
Have you considered a projector and screen? I donāt have one, but some people really like them.
Putting one of those in the basement. If this was my only spot to watch tv I would be a little more cautious.
I recently mounted a TV exactly at the middle between floor & ceilingāperfect eye level for my couch viewing. Thereās no furniture below it. Aesthetically it looks a bit too low but functionally, itās the perfect heightāno neck straining. Wouldnāt want to mount it high up if I didnāt have to.
Iām not a fan because Iām lazy. If I want to watch something I just want to just turn on the TV. I donāt want to have to deal with eliminating all ambient light as well. I guess if your house is fully set up so you can control blinds and lighting from your phone or whatever, thatās fine. Or if you have a windowless theater room, that would work.
In addition to laziness, I kind of prefer watching stuff with lights on. Not sure why. When I watch something where everything is dark, Iām kind of annoyed that I need to dim the lights.
Lol I just went through this literally last weekend. My preference was in the corner next to the fireplace, my wife wanted above the fireplace, so she won. I decided to mount it using a basic tilting mount first rather than springing for the MantelMount, figuring we could do that later if it was a problem.
So far itāsā¦ fine. Our living room connects to our kitchen so the height is nice to keep an eye on the game while cooking. When seated on the couch, itās too high. When reclined on the couch, itās actually not too bad.
Hereās how it ended up. 65" TV. (ignore the mess, weāre still half moved in)
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Itās the perfect height for the cat.
You will, but fundamentally you should be regretting your decision to buy a house with a badly laid out living room
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Bad layout? It appears to be simply a large open rectangle with a fireplace.
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Layout seems fine and inoffensive to me. Just a standard open layout on the main floor. Itās in the middle of the city so itās not like I have space to spread horizontally.
100% TVTOHIGH! I would say just skip putting tv in that area and use the basement for your tv watching.
Needs a lathe
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LOL, thatās almost my houseās permanent state.
Thereās no good place to put a TV!
āWe take it back,ā Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, two of Americaās most prominent health economists, declare in a new book, Weāve Got You Covered, their blueprint for reforming our health care system. After years of preaching āthe gospelā that āpatients must pay something for their care,ā theyāve now abandoned the message.
Instead they propose tax-funded ābasicā health coverageāwithout copayments, deductibles, or other forms of ācost-sharingāāfor all Americans. Almost simultaneously, three other leading health economistsāKatherine Baicker, the provost of the University of Chicago, who served on George W. Bushās Council of Economic Advisers, and Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard of Harvardāoutlined a similar proposal in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. This may signal an encouraging shift in elite opinion, at least among economists, in the debate over health care reform.
Copays and deductibles do more harm than good for most healthcare