Corner tv unit in this floor plan or something else?

Corbula · 24 Feb 2021 at 11:16

I'm trying to find a tv unit for my new house and I think the best bet is a corner one. All the ones I'm finding are for TVs up to 50/55" which for now might be OK but won't be for long.

I thought about the ikea Besta unit which I know is straight and having it flush on one of the adjacent walls but then one of the sofas is losing out. I thought maybe I could get to and put them in an L shape and the TV and sound bar can straddle across them in the corner.

What would you recommend? Maybe just flush on the wall left of the outside doors is better. I didn't want a glass stand, wanted something with storage like the Besta.

Martynt74 · 24 Feb 2021 at 11:32

Consider a swivel wall mount for the wall and you can then put whatever you want underneath it

That way you're not limited to a tv in the future. You could also perhaps attach the soundbar beneath the TV, i think some come with brackets for that.

Corbula · 24 Feb 2021 at 11:43

Martynt74 said:
Consider a swivel wall mount for the wall and you can then put whatever you want underneath it

That way you're not limited to a tv in the future. You could also perhaps attach the soundbar beneath the TV, i think some come with brackets for that.

Thanks. That's an idea but trying to avoid it for now as it's a new house and don't want to put anything on the wall until I know that's where it's going to stay.

tom_nieto · 24 Feb 2021 at 12:02

A large flatscreen in the corner is rubbish as it takes out a huge amount of your room, I had this setup for a while and it wasn't great. We've since switched the room around and the room looks bigger with the TV flat on the wall and the room looks much larger. Viewing position is improved too. Straddling across a corner unit seems like a bad idea on many levels. Units suggesting up to 55" will be to do with weight, most TVs are much less heavy these days so do consider this when planning, my 50" plasma is a heavy beast at 30kg, a 65" OLED that I've randomly searched is 21kg. I would put the TV flat against the wall at the bottom of your picture. The sofa on the right will be fine for viewing and you'll get a view from the far sofa too. You can always experiment.

Corbula · 24 Feb 2021 at 12:30

tom_nieto said:
A large flatscreen in the corner is rubbish as it takes out a huge amount of your room, I had this setup for a while and it wasn't great. We've since switched the room around and the room looks bigger with the TV flat on the wall and the room looks much larger. Viewing position is improved too. Straddling across a corner unit seems like a bad idea on many levels. Units suggesting up to 55" will be to do with weight, most TVs are much less heavy these days so do consider this when planning, my 50" plasma is a heavy beast at 30kg, a 65" OLED that I've randomly searched is 21kg. I would put the TV flat against the wall at the bottom of your picture. The sofa on the right will be fine for viewing and you'll get a view from the far sofa too. You can always experiment.

I think you're right. I think I would go with the smaller wall so it faces the most used sofa at first rather than the other as my current TV is a VA panel so not great from tight angles. Plus also gaming don't want too much of an angle to it. Can also move to the bigger wall on the bottom of the picture when I get a bigger TV.

mmj_uk · 24 Feb 2021 at 13:28

In my experience a 49" will fit nicely in the corner providing your unit does but over that you have to start pulling your unit away from the corner.

jpaul · 25 Feb 2021 at 14:04

Agree I use a panasonic 42" IPS at about 30degrees in the corner, targetted at primary sofa, and it works fine,
if you have two sofas , having the tv at an angle is the only solution, so putting it in the corner is natural; facing tv against a window also asks for trouble.
I use just a low/~20" coffee table, with tv ott boxes beneath, on shelf.
I think you could locate an AVamp behind the tv in the corner, if the remotes can reach them.

Surround sound (well I just have 2.0 from hifi amp) speakers are more difficult to locate ... but,
you wouldn't want these firing perpendicular across a room anyway, if the tv were flat against a wall.