how much prominence does your TV have?

[hadenough111]

In an ideal world there would be no tv in the living room and we'd have a telly watching room or 'snug'. Alas we have one room.

I HATE that the furniture is arranged around it. I can feel it staring at us when it's off and we're doing something else, like reading!

Of course we could just get rid of it but we don't want to do that.

Is there a compromise?!

[LlamaLover]

You could paint a feature wall in black/dark blue/another darker colour and put the TV against that wall so that the contrast of the black if the TV and the wall behind it isn't so harsh? It can mean the TV blends in a bit more to its surroundings.

[RaphaellaTheSpanishWaterDog]

Ours (40") is in the upstairs snug, formerly the PO's master bedroom but with a large bay window seat & door to the balcony this seemed a waste to me on a low cabinet that was constructed for the purpose using original Art Nouveau metal panels. When the room is decorated this will sit in a (newly created) recess beside the reclaimed fireplace we'll be installing. We have two sofas at right angles, the larger one facing the chimney breast, and the smaller one opposite the window seat.

This leaves the ground floor living room as more of an entertaining space (not that we ever do!) and the snug is somewhere to flop down with a book/watch dvds etc.

We have loads of 'interesting' stuff or crap, depending on your POV plus the f/p and window seat to draw your eye from the black thing in the corner!

I don't have a pic of the current set up, but do have one of our last house where we had a smaller tv in a really awkward spot on a tall cupboard DH built in next to the inglenook. You can see one of the sofas that was almost on top of it , whilst the other, larger one was opposite the f/p. Again this was in a (small) snug and we were lucky enough to have another smarter room for when friends/family visited.