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To hate this trend for hanging televisions on the wall.

238 replies

Lagoonablue · 30/01/2015 20:08

Especially when it is on the party wall in the fucking bedroom and we have to listen to the NND watching crap at night.

It is the worst idea ever IMO. Looks terrible and is highly anti -social.

End of rant.

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LST · 30/01/2015 22:40

sparklingbrook mine is indeed on the only loudly papered wall in the room! Grin

LST · 30/01/2015 22:42

annnnd one of the things I'm most looking forward to when dc2 moves out of our room, is being able to go to bed an watch the telly like I used to.

(I suppose not having a toddler stuck between me and dp all night would be a plus point too.. Grin )

TheHandbagOfGlory · 30/01/2015 22:46

Where do you put the Sky box and DVD player and all that stuff?

And if the wires are in the wall how do you get to them to sort them out? I'm always having to swap the DVD player and Apple TV cables around or unplug the sky box and blow the dust out and reconnect Blush

TinklyLittleLaugh · 30/01/2015 22:53

Well our, rather large, TV is in one of those mahoosivee IKEA units and is definitely the focal point of our sitting room. We don't have a fireplace.

I find it quite strange when we stay with people who definitely watch more TV than us, and their furniture is arranged around their unremarkable fireplace, and everyone is craning their neck to see the TV tucked away in the corner.

I guess we are just common though.

MrsRayOfSunshine · 30/01/2015 23:06

Our TV is on the wall... And above the fire place Blush

I live in the country so no fear of strangers peeking through our window watching TV

Roomba · 30/01/2015 23:36

I'm not particularly fond of having our TV up on the wall either, but suspect if I hadn't had it put up there it would've crushed DS2 before now. At least I haven't put it up on a wall that adjoins any neighbours. I always feel sorry for my exFIL's neighbours as he has a 52" TV with massive surround sound stereo speaker things - turned up to 11 as he is deaf as a post - hanging on the party wall. The room shakes when he has it on, which is often as he thinks he is a film buff!

BlueBrightBlue · 30/01/2015 23:41

I never watch TV but dc does. A TV on the wall frees up a lot of space and isn't intrusive.

WilburIsSomePig · 30/01/2015 23:45

Ours is on the chimney breast (disused, inset fireplace) and I like it there. Its a very large L shaped room, difficult to furnish at the best of times so its in the best place for us.

ToastyFingers · 30/01/2015 23:48

My living room is tiny, really tiny, too small even for a 3 seated sofa. Our tv is on the wall (above the fireplace) because it is quite literally the only place we have room for it. We use seperate speakers that don't point at the wall though and all the extra bits go on a high up shelf.

I'd much rather have a bigger house, but that's not likely to happen any time soon.

mouses · 30/01/2015 23:50

agree with op, but I guess it comes down to preference.
I don't think removing or not having a tv unit makes my living room look any better or more spacious, if I put my tv on the wall id feel like something was missing lol

I don't have a tv in my room and if I did it would be in mid air Wink the kids tv's are also on stands. so if I need to change the room lay out as they get older im not restricted to where furniture can go Grin

as I say though each to their own

mouses · 30/01/2015 23:52

wouldn't be in mid air not would Blush its late ....

IHeartKingThistle · 31/01/2015 00:52

Loving the TV - placement snobbery Hmm

Ours is on the wall, not too high, not the focal point, wires in the wall, on a swivel arm so everyone can see, and most brilliantly it's on a black wall. Almost invisible when it's off, and like the cinema when it's on.

Fuck off, naysayers Grin

mouses · 31/01/2015 01:22

sounds good kingthistle....i'll bring the popcorn round to yours hahaha! Wink

HicDraconis · 31/01/2015 01:32

Ours is on the wall above the fireplace. All the wires go through the wall behind it in specifically designed conduits so we have the PS3 / Freeview / amplifier boxes in a niche on shelves next to it. The speaker wires go through the back wall, along the side wall, under the floor and up the middle wall so the speakers are also floating with no apparent wiring to be seen. The only wiring is my aux cable in the amplifier for when I want to plug my phone in & play music.

Helps when you have some input into the house design :)

HicDraconis · 31/01/2015 01:37

Like this :-)

To hate this trend for hanging televisions on the wall.
IPityThePontipines · 31/01/2015 01:58

"It dominates and dictates"

A television is a piece of electronic equipment activated by an on and off switch, not a sentient being.

I guess you're not meant to show off your tv too much, because it's it's still a bit déclassé to really like telly. You're meant to have a tiny little tv, hidden in a corner, which you only watch from time to time in between reading improving books.

JellyTipisthebest · 31/01/2015 05:51

Would love ours on the wall, I have had to attach it to watch it stands on due to earthquake risk. Children have died in earthquakes when tv's fell on them though I suspect it was the old big ones.

Iloveweetos · 31/01/2015 06:08

We hung out TVs on the wall but I made sure they weren't party walls for this reason. But if people have fireplaces I get why they put them there. No other place for it

diddl · 31/01/2015 06:16

I also think that they look ridiculous above a fireplace.

Unless it's a working one, get rid, then you have a lovely flay wall for your telly.

Either wall mounted or on a stand!

GoodbyeToAllOfThat · 31/01/2015 06:20

Back in the 90s, tube televisions were no more or less the focal point of a room than flat screen TVs.

Hung on a wall, they're unobtrusive; wires can be drilled through the wall and magically paired with far away data sources. YABVU!

Mutley77 · 31/01/2015 06:21

Doesn't everyone have them on the wall now. Wouldn't have occurred to me there is anything wrong with it as much less obtrusive when you have the wires properly channelled and saves so much space. We're Renting at the moment due to relocation and it really irritates me we had to go back to TVs on cabinets and buy cabinets , bulky and ugly imo! But agree I hate TVs that are too big for rooms and don't like them over the fireplace either...

wanderings · 31/01/2015 06:46

True, TV's are enormous these days. But back in the day before flat screen TV's, a small 14" set could be comparable in weight to a modern large flat screen TV.

Innocent-looking small TV mounted on a TV bracket... dangerous!

(When I bought my first flat in 2005, a non-flat screen 14" TV was left behind, wall-mounted in the bedroom; I still have that TV, but that's another thread!)

And if big TV's weren't enough, in one house I visited regularly: ceiling-mounted data projector, with screen which unrolled down from the ceiling. This was in quite a small house, but where the living room and dining room were open plan - to get the benefit of it, you had to watch across the full length of the two rooms! I never saw this in operation, but I can imagine it.

TeWiSavesTheDay · 31/01/2015 07:09

ours was on top of a bookshelf but now it's wall mounted because it's safer with small kids bashing around. It's all of about 6" higher than it used to be and looks virtually the same so I'm amused that this is terrible Grin

zipzap · 31/01/2015 07:15

Op. -do you think your neighbour realises how much you are disturbed by their tv? Have you asked them to turn it down and use subtitles or banged on the wall hoping to knock the tv off of it - or if you've asked and no joy then howabout getting the local noise team from the counci to ask themmore forally to turn it down ?

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Lagoonablue · 31/01/2015 07:17

No I haven't asked them to turn it down yet. Am building up to it. He is a bit of an arse tbh and may just tell me to eff off.

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