Right, i'll get to the chase, im a bit fed up of my son (15 months) turning the tv and dvd on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off

SO, i want to put it on the wall, but need to connect my dvd home theatre, virgin box, wii and if possible my pc.

Being a new house, there is no fireplace/wall, so i thought of building a false chimney breast wall thing in the middle of the wall, as a feature point of view to hang the tv, and put in some shelves failry high up which would also essentially hide the cables etc...........

BUT i'm looking for a bit of inspiration and pictures if possible of what you guys may have done

Hope you can help

 

http://www.avforums.com/forums/membe...inema-gallery/

 

here is mine, it is now due a re-vamp along with the rest of the living room!

 

This is my very basic set-up

 

Fuck me mate you need a one does all remote control

 

I was getting huge quotes so decided to do mine myself and am so so glad i did it was easy.

mounting the tv bracket is just drilling and mounting easy

to channel the wires

angle grind 2 lines up and 2 across then chisel out the middle nail in some trunking pull all the wires in clip the top on and fill all over sand fill sand fill sand fill easy easy

just waiting to finish painting now, but warned it is very very very messy using a grinder on plaster and brick.

 

whats the height of the tv looks really low?

 

remember to future proof the instal, i.e, run the cables you think you may use in the fututre.
You may not have an sky hd box for example right now, but run an hdmi cable(or 2 ) in case you decide to get it in the future, should make life that much easier if the cables are plastered into the wall in trunking.
If you have a laptop, you may want to run in a vga cable incase you want to view it on the tv, or if you smash the screen by accident, you can still use it.

 

I don't have one for the XBOX 360 yet

 

this is mine

 

I'd rather have a low TV than one mounted so far up the wall it gives you neck ache!

 

Heres mine,

Samsung 40" jobby
Phillips soundbar (Mrs doesnt like surround sound speakers dotted around room)
Samsung wall mounted blu ray player
In unit beside Chimney, PS3, Xbox 360, Virgin HD+, nintendo wii

I boarded out the original chimney breast using some 10mm battons, plasterboarded and had it plastered. Skirting board can be removed using screws and pull wires are in the wall incase i need to replace a cable.

 

no need for a low one, just have it set to the right height

 

proper tv

 

prob because i was standing when taking the pic

height wise its eye level when sitting on the sofa

 

some goods uns there.

 

Don't put it too high, When I wall mounted mine, it was about 12" higher than eye level and that hurt my neck to look at it. Moved it down, and its perfect now. Just got to run the remote eye thing for the wii through the wall

 

good stuff there guys........cheers

 

Mate if your talking about the wire for the sensor bar, you do know they sell a wireless one.

 

I did a full build on mine the only thing that's changed from below is the addition of a new Sub, SkyHD, Black wii [which I've switched on possibly twice ] and the CD stands have been binned.



The lights behind the TV are colour changing LEDs [nicked the idea from my Dad's Philips ambilight TV]



Next step is a 6 foot projector screen

P.S this was it before so you can get an idea of how much I've done to the house



During:





HTH

 

WTF is with the huge hamster cage Hamster villa Is that all for 1 hamster?

 

here's mine, pioneer 43"

 

some nice set-ups

 

Rich, you can get the wireless Wii sensor bar for Ł1 at poundland
http://www.poundland.co.uk/product-r...ss-sensor-bar/

dont know how good it will be but well worth a try for Ł1

 

that hamster cage is cool as f&ck!!!!

 

Lol cheers guys, yeah one hamster in there, little Gareth, he fucking loves it







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Won't a wireless sensor bar need batteries etc? Its a piece of piss to run the wire through the wall anyway so probably just leave it as is, just havent got round to it yet!

 

 

Some good set up's here, we are looking at putting our 46" tv on the wall as our 15 month old daughter keeps doing the same to ours turning it on off on off


Brian

 

put it high enough. so they can't reach it. mine is quiet high. non of us get neck ache watching it.

 

Cheaper option; get rid of the kid.

A TV should not be higher than the centre of the screen being at the same level as your eyes whilst in a normal seated position. Any higher or lower is not good.

 

Some great ideas, when i decorate our bedroom, i am putting a tv build on the chimney breast for sure now. looks nice flushed in the wall

 

its cut to the chase!!

 

paddy and rs licker-liking the set ups

how long did it take to do?

 

wrong link LOL

 

finally got round to doing it, but decided against building something bespoke...

 

looks good...... PINK!

 

blame the missus for that she saw it in a showhome a few weeks ago and decided it would be a good idea.........................

 

colour matches the tv i suppose

 

na only kidding but found this as a laugh

 

Looks like you need to get your kid and your missus in line!!