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I was faced with this same type of dilemma. I found a product (mantlemount) that allows me to mount the TV over the fireplace and pull it out and down to the correct height. It also tilts towards the left and right. The only issue that I have faced with it is decorating the mantle for Christmas. It will need a low profile garland rather than my usual candle display.
This. Put it over the fireplace using a mount where you can pull it down to a comfortable viewing level. It works best there in terms of furniture placement but this way you can watch it without it being a literal pain in the neck.
Personally I don't care for white woodwork or painted brick. I was trying not to say anything cause I know others like them.
OP do you like the painted fireplace. Just wondering.
I was going to reface it with grey or white quarts bricks, but decided that I could do that later. The original bricks were hideous.
This is just step 1. Step 2 will be using a big sponge and applying grey paint over the white to create a nice texture.
I dislike TV's over the fireplace also they are at the wrong angle for viewing. My room is very much like yours. I have my TV in the A position and I have a couch facing it on the other side of the fireplace. I have two chairs facing the fireplace. Keep in mind its almost impossible to place all chairs in a room with ideal viewing for the TV. So in my room, one chair can't see the TV at all, two chairs can see it but are not ideal, and the couch is the ideal viewing spot. But in my house since only two people live there, it works as mostly we watch tv when sitting on the couch.
if it were my room, id get rid of the fireplace and put a nice low consle ther, then the TV on that.
when televisions were actually a piece of furnitre no one ever seemed to have a hard time placing it, it seems now a days that so many people have fireplaces, and where the ifireplaces are located is where the Tv really should be.
Putting a TV over the fireplace is ugly. JMO.
It is not natural on the eyes to be in the looking up position.
before flat screens became so populat we all had console televisions which mean when you sat on the couch, your eyes went in the normal looking down position. Now some idiot came up with the TV over the fireplace and people are in the eye up position. It is uncomfortabe and not natural to be staring up.
now when you have a great room, not the size of yours, where you need to see a TV from all directions, over can be better.
but this room, while a nice room at that, is not big enough (IMO) to have the TV over the fireplace.
i like it in the side wall better.
I dislike TV's over the fireplace also they are at the wrong angle for viewing. My room is very much like yours. I have my TV in the A position and I have a couch facing it on the other side of the fireplace. I have two chairs facing the fireplace. Keep in mind its almost impossible to place all chairs in a room with ideal viewing for the TV. So in my room, one chair can't see the TV at all, two chairs can see it but are not ideal, and the couch is the ideal viewing spot. But in my house since only two people live there, it works as mostly we watch tv when sitting on the couch.
Care to share your setup? I need some ideas. The bad thing is if I put the sofa facing the TV on the other side of the fireplace. The back of the sofa is the first thing people will see when they enter through the front door.
Is your house also setup like that? When looking into the front entry way, people will see the wall where the fireplace is.
Care to share your setup? I need some ideas. The bad thing is if I put the sofa facing the TV on the other side of the fireplace. The back of the sofa is the first thing people will see when they enter through the front door.
Is your house also setup like that? When looking into the front entry way, people will see the wall where the fireplace is.
couldnt you put a sofa table behind the couch, that would look nice and pretty much hide the back of the couch??? just a thought.
I still say, don't get involved in mounting it on the wall at all. Put it on a stand and then you can locate it wherever you wish. It can even be in front of a window.
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