Today's AT Daily email from Maxwell looks at Kelly Geisen's inspired television hutch inside a model fireplace she built herself. That's right. Before there was just a flat wall, but Kelly found an old fireplace mantel that could also serve as a flat screen's housing. More photos after the jump...
The interior designer who lives on the upper west side of Manhattan, "designed, scavenged and built this entire television housing from scratch," Maxwell writes. "Kelly, a huge collector, found the mantle at an antique shop and had it built onto the wall. Meanwhile she had already made sure that all the proper wiring was in place (cable, electricity, speakers, etc)."
photos: Kelly G Design
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I saw this on AT's main page... and it's a cool proof of concept and all, but really, wouldn't you get annoyed having to look down to see the TV? It almost looks like you'd have to move the coffee table if you were sitting directly opposite the TV.
It's too low, but otherwise very attractive and well done. But I don't understand the need to "hide" a television. We don't hide our clocks, or telephones, and rarely our computers. But the TV is an eyesore?
I agree that it's too low for comfortable viewing.
If you can't look at something which requires looking at to perform its intended purpose, then it's not high enough on your list of priorities to actually be in your home. Go Luddite if you can't handle a T.V. in your decor.
All the consoles of yesteryear were about this same height. It is not ideal, but minimally better than the TV above the firebox --let's not go there again...
Hiding a television is a legitimate decorating strategy. I wouldn't equate the dominance of a big black screen with the challenges presented by a clock or telephone
I hide my telephone.
I lose my telephone a lot, but that's not the same as hiding it, huh :)
Totally agree Sunnyblue.
Enclosing a TV like that can cause it to overheat. Sony has a diagram in the manual about doing something like this.