But that’s also because it was very easy and very straightforward (shocker). After reading ten billion online reviews to calm/exacerbate my fears (as online reviews tend to do), we decided to order this $18 mounting hardware.Īnd apparently, in all of my nervousness I took zero pictures of us actually installing it. I realize this is far from a new concept, but it’s actually the first time we’ve ever mounted a television. The first order of business was mounting the TV to the wall. There’s one thing you don’t see when you’re viewing it mounted in the store. Especially those weird little bird feet the TV sits on.
Once we gave the dresser four full days for the paint to cure (it’s annoying to wait, but more annoying to get a bunch of dings and marks from lack of patience), we added hardware ( this pull and this knob from Target) and plopped all of the technology on there. You can see that we had our old bedroom rug in there at one point, but it was too small so we knew it’d just be temporary.
HIDE TV CABLE MOVIE
On a happier note, all that sanding got us a little giddy and soon those drawer liners had us both channeling Willy Wonka saying “the snozberries taste like snozberries” and laughing like only parents who have watched that movie 10,000 times can.Īfter all the sanding dust cleared, we applied a coat of tinted primer (leftover from painting our guest room) and then painted it Folkstone by Sherwin-Williams. If we couldn’t stain it, at least we could give it a deep rich color, right? Here it is awaiting its second coat of paint, while being inspected by a member of our household quality control.Īnd here it is after the second coat. Plus, the middle drawers were a noticeably different wood grain, so all signs pointed to just paint the darn thing. We had no trouble sanding off the painted details, but the giant oval sections of wood putty behind each of the 6 outer knobs was never going to blend well (such large portions of wood putty just don’t take stain the same way that wood does). Our original hope was to refinish it with stain just like the one we have downstairs, but when we saw it in person we realized that wasn’t a wise plan. Sold to the couple with a thing for dressers-turned-media-cabinets! With that critical detail out of the way, we continued the theme of “well, if we like our downstairs set-up so much…” and stumbled upon this 9-drawer mid-century dresser on Craigslist for $120. Three cheers for a simple selection process. We chose this 50″ Vizio television since we’ve liked our Vizio downstairs and this one was also well reviewed. The TV was actually purchased way before the room was even finished. Back during the holidays we scored a 20% off Target coupon for one item in the store (and it didn’t say “excluding electronics” – woot!).
Plus, as we’ve learned after the fact, it’s nice that it faces away from the room’s door because you can’t hear it down the hall. There was really only one wall that made sense for the TV in this room, since it was just about the only windowless and slanted-ceiling-less wall in the space (it sits across from the built-ins we shared last month). Adding an infrared receiver (we used this $14 IR receiver from Amazon)īut before we could worry about hiding the TV wires, we had a couple of things to check off our list first.Getting our power strip off the floor (we already had one, so this step was free).Installing an in-wall cord system (we used this $40 all-in-one DIY kit from Home Depot).Mounting the TV to the wall (we used this $18 mounting hardware from Amazon).So we thought we’d break down the 4 steps that we took to hang our TV, eliminate every visible cord, and hide the cable box.Īll-in-all, these four steps cost us less than $75 and none took more than an hour to execute (a couple only took a few minutes). But in adding a television, we didn’t want to create Cordfest 2016, and have always wanted to try mounting a TV on the wall. While our recently-finished bonus room upstairs was never intended to be a dedicated “media room” or “theater room,” we always knew it’d make a great spot for special family movie nights.
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