It can be a great solution when you want to hide tv wires over a fireplace.
Hiding tv cables above fireplace.
Our friend julie blanner has a great project that uses a simple target shelf or you can create your own using crown moulding to hide those ugly wires and cables leading to and from your tv.
Interestingly it has a stud framing that prevents running cables inside the wall.
The fireplace prevents running the cables straight down the wall and the stud framing prevents running the cables laterally inside the wall.
How to install a tv above a fireplace and hide the wires by kristan hart mount a tv over a fireplace hiding tv cables can be quite a chore sometimes requiring you to run cables behind the wall to a television panel in the room behind your fireplace.
When we got a new loveseat the shelf made it impossible for someone to walk behind the loveseat.
A flat panel tv above your fireplace is very cool until you try and hide the cables.
If your fireplace is on an interior wall you may be able to go up the wall however that doesn t work on exterior walls.
We then had a cable company install a cable receptacle on the wall directly to the left of the brick fireplace.
We all have things about houses we don t like.
Running cords in a wall above a fireplace have become a popular trend when mounting televisions in homes.
Conceal tv wires behind wall trim.
But back to the tv part because the only place one was over the fireplace.
This rise in tvs over the fireplace trend has been mine for a while.
For over a year now it has driven me nuts.
Cue the sketch drama music.
It s more function than form and stuff.
Oct 31 2017 for over a year now we have had our cable box dvd player and appletv sitting on a shelf to the right of our fireplace.
It s not the easiest and quickest way to hide your tv cords but it s certainly an eye catching one.
We all dream of the ambience comfort warmth brought by a fireplace.
If that s not.
Obscuring wiring on a regular wall is hard enough however how to hide tv wires over a fireplace particularly brick can be a big challenge.
Mount tv to wall mount.
How to hide cables and wires.