Re: Decorating Around Your TV?

sceniccoast · ‎03-09-2010

With the exception of the photos surrounding the TV area, I like the room as a whole. It's tastefully done & casual, light & cheery. I like the furnishings as well.

My DH has a "too large" piece of art of farm animals (he was raised on a dairy farm) behind his TV. I've never liked it there but it's pretty much his room, along with his large black lab, Connie. Thanks for sharing.

KathyM23 · ‎11-20-2010

@ALRATIBA

I'm with you - I'm a maxamumlist too. I have a grouping or picture/decor on almost every wall in my house - also the bathrooms. It is all very tastefully done and I have received many compiments on how my house is decorated.

I'm the same way with clothes and shoes, way too many, but I do purge often and now at this stage of my life,I am buying less and more carefully and working on downsizing somewhat but it will never be to a minimum!.

spiderw · ‎06-14-2010

I don't care for this area at all.I would have fewer pictures on the wall and the coffee table would go. It needs a make over.

I have decor on my entertainment center above the TV. I also have family pictures on the top of the piece. For me it is not distracting but warm.

SouthernBee · ‎09-16-2010

@wilma : I get distracted very easy and prefer nothing near the tv. In 2016 had family room added on. I have two friends that have gifted me items for the tv area. When the room was finished and considering furniture and decorations I told them what I preferred- no painting or decorative items for gifts.They get upset when gifted items are put in other rooms. I have different taste and color choices and really try to discourage them from giving any paintings or decorative items they refused to listen. Last year gave them letter stated that I love the friendship but will stop all gift exchange during the year and let's do something different like eating out and short road trips.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

I don't decorate arount (in my case over) the tv. I have a tall pie safe with shelves and open doors with punched tin on one side, and a rock fireplace on the other side. The tv is on a large chest.

Sweetbay magnolia · ‎04-14-2013

I decorate around the TV - it's on a glass topped table with a just above floor level shelf below. There are pictures and knick knacks and plants around.

I'd show you a nice photo but I see this site won't accept photos from my new iPhone because they are not in jpeg format. Oh well! Not worth converting from HEIC.

Cogito ergo sum

jubilant · ‎06-10-2010

Beautiful Living Rooms With Built-In Shelving

@wilma

I really don't mind the tv "set up" in your picture. I could live with that one. Actually, I think it is better than most I have seen.

I know I have posted this picture before. Ideally this would be my choice but built-in's are so expensive. I think maybe we "shot ourselves in the foot" when they did away with entertainment centers? We still have ours. Would I much rather have this built-in? Oh, yeah!!! I feel, however, it's a luxury I don't really need right now....especially with the high cost of materials right now.

LindaSal · ‎05-15-2014

I agree that the room is cute and looks comfy. I would not have the artwork and just leave the lamps by themselves. In our townhouse we have a TV room with an okay sized flat screen on a low table as we have a large screen for a projector that hangs on the ceiling. That screen goes up and down so I don't have anything on that wall. We mostly use the projector for movies and sports. It really is a nice set up, like being at the movie theater.

tobes · ‎08-02-2010

@wilma ....I am not particulary fond of the large screen tv's ....they take up too much room and spoil the look anywhere they are placed Lately I have been watching my cable tv that streams on my computer. I have both internet and tv with one cable operator. I have a 18 inch laptop and I can take it with me to the breasfast table for the morning news and to the bedroom at night. It works fine for me. And I can also get radio broadcasts on it. I have a smaller TV in my family room for visitors who oome to watch TV. Usually this happens once in a blue moon. I wonder how many are using their computers to stream their tv programs

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

@Oznell wrote:
@wilma, I'd love to have one of those Samsung (I think they're Samsung?) TVs that is "art" on your wall when it isn't being a TV...

Failing that, we are so ~~fuddy-duddy~~ 'traditional', that we have the tiniest flat screen tv in the world-- therefore we can have it in a small armoire-like cabinet with doors that you can close. How Nineties of us! But I like being able to shut it away, hide infernal cords and stacks of DVD's-- so it's still a good solution, in my opinion.

And I can have a few pieces of art around it, which if I do say so myself, look good. The designer Laurel Bern showed a similar set up to ours, where the armoire is tucked in a corner. Presumably the TV is on a swivel:

This works for us, so we can have our TV, plus art.