I have an old MacBook I use for stuff (12 years old!) and the MagSafe charger finally gave out. I was annoyed the new one won’t be here until Saturday lol. Been spoiled.
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 I’ll regret putting the tv above the fireplace? My only other option is between the 2 windows but I don’t love that idea as it will cut off the room with the couch. I feel like the 15ish feet length will minimize TVTOOHIGH, but I’m not sure. Wife really wants it above.
I’m watching a TV above the fireplace as I write this. I know it’s “wrong” for a lot of reasons. But I don’t 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 I’m going to install this as the mount.
Have you considered a projector and screen? I don’t 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 & ceiling–perfect eye level for my couch viewing. There’s no furniture below it. Aesthetically it looks a bit too low but functionally, it’s the perfect height–no neck straining. Wouldn’t want to mount it high up if I didn’t have to.
I’m not a fan because I’m lazy. If I want to watch something I just want to just turn on the TV. I don’t 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, that’s 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, I’m 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 it’s… 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, it’s too high. When reclined on the couch, it’s actually not too bad.
Here’s how it ended up. 65" TV. (ignore the mess, we’re still half moved in)
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It’s 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. It’s in the middle of the city so it’s 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, that’s almost my house’s permanent state.
There’s no good place to put a TV!