Media wall Ideas and suggestions

[Buffman]

Looks good but my god that TV is too high and too close to a window

Agree on it being way too high, less bothered about the window if that's the best place in the room. Looks nice/lot of effort put in. I'd have changed to a modern radiator too and not sure if the slats should run full length to be honest.

Would be fine with a plant or 2 by the dog bed

 

[PermaChanged]

This was the end (ish) result. If you look at the frame photo before, there is a way for any cable to go from behind the TV into the cabinets, if needed, all behind the wall.

What cabinet is that?

 

[RDCorporation]

Looks good but my god that TV is too high and too close to a window

Yeah it did end up fairly high, although the room is fairly small, when you're on the sofa it's actually not that bad. Would not do it again though

Agree on it being way too high, less bothered about the window if that's the best place in the room. Looks nice/lot of effort put in. I'd have changed to a modern radiator too and not sure if the slats should run full length to be honest.

Would be fine with a plant or 2 by the dog bed

Thanks. Yeah modern radiator was in the plans, just never got round to it and like many other projects, it's still a to-do at some point.
The slats were intentionally left this length, as I planned to have a similar wood table top to go from top of cabinets (where slats start) to the wall on the right, being same depth as the cabinets and act as a shelf sort of (as you say, maybe couple of plants). But where the slats are mounted, the wall is not straight and curves towards the wall on the right. Visually you can't notice it, until you put a straight edge to it. So left it for future to-do as well.

What cabinet is that?

They are from Ikea (Besta), two identical cabinets mounted next to each other.

 

[kai]

I think it looks good on a photo but I don't understand how you can watch TV like that? You'll always be looking at the TV from a weird low down angle.

That's the issue with all these media walls. Unless you have the perfect shape room and can put your sofa dead opposite, they just don't work.

Most UK houses haven't got the right layout for it, either due to fireplaces, windows or doors on different walls.

It's hard to get a decent photo to showcase the room itself, but that TV is on a huge swivel bracket arm that can come out and up/down. However, we often swivel the sofa to more central of the room (if needed), its super easy as it's on a caster.

However, the room is 99.% of the time just used to read. The TV simply goes on for music or in the rare occasion a film. We have a TV in the main living room that is much lower

 

[2013]

Sorry ive not replied it a few days, busy week working till late, Just a quick update, We cant seam to choose a design or agree 100% on what we want.

The girls what Ash panels all along the wall, which is a long wall, one of the reason is a part of the wall has some damp and paint is flagging nothing major, but i think it may make the room too dark, making the room smaller and a little boring, they still want a electric fire.

I was thinking a more natural colour like oak would be better and maybe only covering a part of the wall. my reasoning is the ash may make the room look smaller, at the moment all the walls are painted in Magnolia, I know boring but we did not want to make the room dark and covering the main wall in colour would have cost too much. and the part panels would give the room a more modern look similar to RDCorporation.

What we have agreed on is not having the TV built inside the panels, but instead on top or partly covering them. We have agreed on some lights like the above
We are having a few thoughts about the Panel behind the TV, go far light colour like which or dark grey maybe a marble effect for contrast.

not sure about a TV stand yet.

for us this is the main living room, so everyone shares the room including the kids so we need to keep that in mind.

I've done something similar in my living room. I too did not want any shelves or make the room smaller by a huge media wall so we found a similar design to what we want.
Yes the TV is high Weirdly enough, when I was planning the whole layout of the wall, we didn't have the sofa yet, and I was pretending to sit & stand to see where the TV should be, but somehow, it ended up high anyway Doesn't bother us anymore though.

The slat wall is actually built by hand, instead of buying one of those super expensive slat panels. It's just some wood studs from Wickes, all hand sanded & stained. I then made them in 3 sections so it's easier to lift & attach onto the wall. Which now makes me think, the amount of time spent on making this wall, maybe expensive panels would work out cheaper lol.
I actually planned for having lights between the slats at some point, so the gaps were to accommodate a small aluminium channel for LED strip. This is another reason I used my own wood for slat wood, as most of those panels you can buy are not deep enough for light channels, at least weren't at the time we built this. If you look at the `before` photo, you can see there used to be a light on the wall where the slats are now, that's the wire I used to split 4 ways and power all 4 strips. The other side of that wire goes behind TV into the power supply.
Black aluminium channel works very well, you can't really see it unless you looking directly at it / for it.

The only other source of "ambient" light is where the curtains should go. Curtain rails are flush with the ceiling all along the wall where window is, so I made a little extrusion to hide a corner profile and shine light onto the wall / curtains (still haven't bought curtains lol).

This curtain light and strips between slats, are the only two light we ever use lol. Makes the room very cosy and surprisingly bright (all on dimmer switches). Just make sure if you're putting LED strip where it will be visible, to go with good quality strips with more LED's per metre, so you can't see individual dots when it's on.

Anyway, some pictures:

This was the before, when we bought the house

Making of the fake wall, to hide all wiring & home all LED power supplies.

Fake wall was plaster boarded, plastered & started painting

This was the end (ish) result. If you look at the frame photo before, there is a way for any cable to go from behind the TV into the cabinets, if needed, all behind the wall.

And the slat lights

Maybe any of this might help

Looks good, but I dont think we would be stripping the wall or celling, which may make things harder. we may just make a frame on top of what we have.
what did the slats cost and cost to build the panels, we are trying to avoid this at the moment to keep things consistent in the stain.
What LED strips did you use and where from?
Nice coffee table, where was it from ?

How have you made the access to the wiring and plugs ? any easy access ?

 

[-Ad-]

They are very much the fad of the moment.

Along with:
- Anthracite every window/door.
- Anthracite tall radiators.
- Dark Blue kitchens.
- Cloakrooms with crazy jungle monkey wallpaper and victorian patterned tiles.
- Composite grey deck and fake grass with no plants.


Storage space is good with these units, but all these shelves and spaces mean more cleaning and more space to just dump crap and nik naks.

Slats on the wall........ Just look like you've strapped the TV to the outside of a hick house in the everglades.

Stick the TV on the wall with a flush wall mount and run a media light remote bias lighting kit around the back of the TV. Job jobbed

 

[RDCorporation]

Sorry ive not replied it a few days, busy week working till late, Just a quick update, We cant seam to choose a design or agree 100% on what we want.

The girls what Ash panels all along the wall, which is a long wall, one of the reason is a part of the wall has some damp and paint is flagging nothing major, but i think it may make the room too dark, making the room smaller and a little boring, they still want a electric fire.

I was thinking a more natural colour like oak would be better and maybe only covering a part of the wall. my reasoning is the ash may make the room look smaller, at the moment all the walls are painted in Magnolia, I know boring but we did not want to make the room dark and covering the main wall in colour would have cost too much. and the part panels would give the room a more modern look similar to RDCorporation.

What we have agreed on is not having the TV built inside the panels, but instead on top or partly covering them. We have agreed on some lights like the above
We are having a few thoughts about the Panel behind the TV, go far light colour like which or dark grey maybe a marble effect for contrast.

not sure about a TV stand yet.

for us this is the main living room, so everyone shares the room including the kids so we need to keep that in mind.


Looks good, but I dont think we would be stripping the wall or celling, which may make things harder. we may just make a frame on top of what we have.
what did the slats cost and cost to build the panels, we are trying to avoid this at the moment to keep things consistent in the stain.
What LED strips did you use and where from?
Nice coffee table, where was it from ?

How have you made the access to the wiring and plugs ? any easy access ?

In our case, the ceiling was coming off regardless, so made the job a lot easier with wiring & lights.
The frame & false wall was built directly on top of existing standard wall though.

I've put all my power supplies for LED strips behind TV, so in case one fails, I can change it by taking TV off and having access.
Routed all the wiring to that place. You can see on the right of the wall, there is a wire sticking out of the wall, this is from previously having a wall light and it's chased into the wall and up into the ceiling. I've used this wire to power the lights between the slats, just split it 4 ways for each strip & all hidden behind slats.

Slats are literally just a studwork wood from Wickes, 38mm x 63mm, which we cut down to size & built the panels out of. Can't recall how much it costed me but 3m length was like £5. We done all the work ourselves after work.

Built it in several panels, as very heavy lol

Took it all off, sanded & stained

The wood strips on the bad, which hold slats together (& attach to the wall through these strips) are painted same colour as the wall, so it blends in.

Please bear in mind, we done all the work ourselves and I am not a builder / decorator so it's all self taught. Therefore it might be completely wrong to how a skilled person would approach this.

All the strips & power supplies I got from company called Hiline-Lighting online (on led strips, I always went for strips with CRI higher than 90 for quality light).

Table was from company called MADE (although we have waited for the table for around 3-4 months iirc.

Sorry for a lot of photos, hopefully any of this helps. I know I've tried to look at tons of similar information when I was doing it lol

 

[2013]

Thanks, sorry for not getting back to the thread, I was not sure what to do due to a few more issues like ceiling height, brick wall and a few other issues.

I do have some question
fire questions are for LEDs, would

Govee 30M LED Strip Lights,​

1. Do the colour change also offer natural light options like 6500k, 4500k ?
2. Can the be used on acoustic wood panels?
3. Would these be ok or would I be better off using LED channel or the COB type