Creating the Right Focus
When you’re planning and furnishing your sitting room, interior designers recommend using one thing in the room as a focal point, and then arranging your furniture around it to suit.
Once upon a time the focus of the average sitting room would have been the fireplace, as the family gathered around the flames for warmth and light in an evening. With the advance of technology, the radio set started to become the focus of the family’s evening activities, and in turn was replaced by the TV. Television sets grew larger, often requiring large furniture to stand them on, and they became huge, almost immovable objects that dictated the room around them.
Finally, flat screen technology gave us large, clear screens without the bulk. Now, with the use of TV brackets to fix your screen to the wall wherever you want it, the design of your sitting room can be freed up once again.
If you live in a period property with a fireplace, then you can consider creating a dual focus by mounting the television on the chimney breast. However there are several things to consider before doing this. If you actually have a fire in the fireplace, of whatever kind, then the rising heat may not be good for your television, and you should consider placing it elsewhere. Secondly, this may set your television a little too high for comfortable viewing, but this is easily fixed by using tilting wall mounts, which allow you to angle the television to the correct viewing angle.
If your living room is a little boxy, you can easily break it up by setting your furniture at an angle. The television can still be the focus here – simply use corner TV brackets to mount your screen in the corner and then set your furniture to face it. You can use accent rugs to break up the floor space too, and give the room more of a sense of shape.
Many people, however, don’t want the television to be the focus of the room all the time; only when they’re actually watching it. With a little clever design, you can have a television set that’s hidden when you don’t need it, and in the right place when you do. For example, you can mount your television inside a cabinet, on pull out TV brackets that allow you to bring it forward when you want to watch it so that the cabinet itself doesn’t get in the way.
Whether you want the television to be the focus of your room or not, here at 123Brackets we offer every kind of TV bracket you could need, so that you can be free to design the room you want.