10 Sep {Reader Emails} What To Do With The Big Black Box
Happy Monday to all! A regular feature I hope to include in A Storied Style are reader emails. I love hearing from you, and I love helping you sort out your design dilemmas! So if you have any questions, thoughts, or comments, please feel free to use the Contact page or email me at Submissions @ AStoriedStyle .com, including the subject title “Reader Emails”.
I received the following email a couple of weeks ago and thought her predicament would connect with many of you.
Hey Grace,
What to do with the ugly tv in a stylish living room? I am not a fan of hanging them above the fireplace (I want to decorate my mantle not put technology up there!)… I hate big media center-beast type furniture…but there is a need for a tv in my house and I want it to work with my eclectic, fun, hodge-podge house….How can I mix my big-ugly tv with the rest of my pretty stuff?
Feel free to ignore this, just thought others might have the same predicament…
I’m sure many of you can relate to this. You’re over the “Tower of Power” (please tell me you are),
Katie Ridder
Absolutely Beautiful Things
Windsor Smith
Hudson Cabinetry
This unit is not necessarily built-in, but I think the use of shelves is genius and extremely well-done.
House Beautiful
Hiding the television behind art is a fun idea. And yes, I know you can purchase remote controlled art that lifts up to reveal the television behind it, or mirrors that change at the push of a button to show it is really a television, and that is all fine and dandy, but I’m trying to be realistic ($$$) for the general public and myself.
This girl screwed L-shaped brackets onto the back of her canvas and simply rests it on top of her television when she wants to conceal it. Easy breezy.
John's Journal
This one has its own little track to roll on.
Southern Living
This is cleverly disguised, yes? And it’s in a bathroom!!
Sroka Design
I like the cute little doors, too. An option that works well over a fireplace.
Houzz
Country Living
Cote de Texas
Love the ones that roll along the metal bar: barn door style!
Cote de Texas
Crisp Architects
Schmitt&Company
I’d like to try this myself: hide the television behind a vintage roll-down map or botanical chart!
House Beautiful
However, probably my most favorite (and attainable!) idea is the TV gallery wall. Done correctly, it can draw your focus away from the television and onto pretty and interesting things. Behold, a bevy of inspiration!
Shaina Mailloux
Source Unknown
Atlanta Homes
Source Unknown
Little Green Notebook
Source Unknown
HGTV
Source Unknown
One Kings Lane
BrooklynLimestone.com
Erin Valecich
Accents of black seem to work well (as does painting your wall black), since the black mimics the black frame of the television. These silhouettes from Better Homes and Gardens are cute (seen in the photo below), and you can download and print them here! Another Fun Idea: chalkboard paint your wall and draw pretty chalk frames – you could even fill your chalk “frames” with pictures or art!
House Beautiful
Apartment Therapy
Real Living
I just finished a couple of living rooms (a formal and a casual) this weekend. The casual living room housed a television, and I cannot wait to show you the TV gallery wall we put together! Stay tuned for pictures, how-to’s and lots of inspiration from those rooms later on in the week!
Do you have a television that needs some pizazz? How will you use these ideas? What’s your solution to “teleguise” – ha! Tell me, I’m all ears!
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