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Say you were converting a dining room into a playroom .. would you put a tv in it?

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Twiglett · 30/12/2006 18:41

it will still have a dining table in it .. but against the wall .. it has oak flooring and a fireplace

currently has a large wooden kitchen, a small table and chairs, 1 armchair (french doors to garden

need to move in toy box and lego box from living room

.. thinking of getting a rug and some storage and bookshelves

kids are almost 6 and 2.6

small tv or not?

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iota · 30/12/2006 18:42

I would, and a DVD player and the ps2 as well

QuootiepieTheNewYearsAss · 30/12/2006 18:42

ummm... no. You can always put it in later. Otherwise they might demand it on all the time?

iota · 30/12/2006 18:44

put one in there - you will never have to watch kids TV in the living room again

iota · 30/12/2006 18:46

I am seriously contemplating turning my conservatory into a playroom at the mo. I think I'm going to put the macmini in there as well (currently in my kitchen)

WideWebWitch · 30/12/2006 18:46

yep

SilverBells · 30/12/2006 18:46

maybe a tv/video/dvd combo but not plug it in to the aerial so that you are selecting what they watch by giving them a dvd/video to watch and it is not just on as wallpaper?
(says me with the kids glued to sky kids tv!!

iota · 30/12/2006 18:47

and the Wii - am worried that my plasma TV is going to be impaled by the remote any day soon

LIZS · 30/12/2006 18:47

If the reasoning is to have a childfree main lounge then yes. Will you still eat in there too ?

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Twiglett · 30/12/2006 18:48

but our sky is in the living room (I am calling it a living room for you lot .. as I was brought up to say Lounge .. I don't know if that is northern or just common )

so if we put a tv in there it would only get terrestrial (we can't afford any more for more sky monthly) ...

in my sister's house the 2 tvs seemed linked to sky but it had to be on the same channel

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gigglinggoblin · 30/12/2006 18:49

yes, our dining room is the playroom where the kids spend almost all their time. the living room is the quiet toy free room which is lovely to escape to. you dont have to let them watch it 24/7 just because it is there

WideWebWitch · 30/12/2006 18:49

What about gettnig Freeview for their room, you'd get cbeebies on that and you only have to pay for the box

LIZS · 30/12/2006 18:49

I'd limit it to terrestial and dvd tbh. Then you'll have more control over what and when they watch.

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Twiglett · 30/12/2006 18:49

no Liz .. we have a table in the kitchen that we eat at .. haven't used dining room table for years tbh

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iota · 30/12/2006 18:49

2nd sky box for £10 PCM

carlsberg · 30/12/2006 18:50

i finally got my dss a tv. We have sky in the lounge but I got them a freeview box each with their tvs. They seem quite happy with them.

Aviatrix · 30/12/2006 18:50

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WideWebWitch · 30/12/2006 18:51

freeview or go one better and get one of these, Humax, then you can record things and pause tv programmes and cut out ads, it's brilliant, I'd have never watched the This Life repeats without it and we paused mutant turtles on tv while ds had breakfast this am.

carlsberg · 30/12/2006 18:51

Also iota know what you mean about the Wii. I am terrified the remote is going to go through the tv or the window.

WideWebWitch · 30/12/2006 18:52

dh says it's the best gadget he's ever had and I'm inclined to agree, I would rather not watch, say, Lost or 24 with ads.

2007nervesleft · 30/12/2006 18:54

I was sorely tempted to put tv in when we converted dining room to play room and resisted. However the children are rarely in the playroom and it could be more accurately described as a toy storage room. Of course I can't back down now as DH wanted to put one in and I was all "how very dare you". And now have to watch endless kids tv. I really hate Granny Murray.

poinsettydog · 30/12/2006 18:54

No.

How often do you want to watch tv when the kids are watching?

And you'd have a tv in your dining room. Do you want a tv in your dining room?

I wouldn't. But then I don't watch that much tv.

tamum · 30/12/2006 18:55

I would. I would just limit its use a bit, but it would be useful for wind-down time when they have friends round to play and stuff, wouldn't it?

roisin · 30/12/2006 18:55

I wouldn't put a tv in playroom personally, but then none of the 4 of us watch very much tv; so 1 TV is more than plenty.

poinsettydog · 30/12/2006 18:56

Are you planning on not letting your kids in the living room? Making it an adult only place or something?

popsycal · 30/12/2006 18:57

i woykd put a small rv dvd combi but no aerial

actually, thats what we did in iur cinservatoryt