Thinking about placing a TV over your fireplace? I’m sharing design ideas for making it look beautiful!
In the past, I’ve never been a big fan of mounting your TV over the fireplace. With the fireplace being such a beautiful focal point of most rooms, it seems a shame to ruin the look with that big old black box. Plus it’s not typically the best of viewing angles. But there are some rooms where the only logical place to put the TV is over the fireplace. That got me searching for other spaces where the TV is mounted above the fireplace in a way that doesn’t take away from the beauty of the room. To my surprise, I found lots of great ideas and am excited to share these inspiring spaces with you!
Let’s kick things off with this gorgeous fireplace from Sarah of Life On Virginia Street – adding a board and batten molding surround above the mantel created the perfect spot for a TV with an upscale, built-in appearance:
And don’t you love the marble herringbone tile? Sarah’s fireplace actually used to be stone but she recently remodeled it to this beauty – check out the full “before” and “after” fireplace transformation {here}.
They even share the free building plans for it if you’d like to re-create this in your own home. See more of this show-stopping DIY on Nick + Alicia {here}.
UPDATE: In your most recent home, we mounted a Frame TV above our fireplace:
Hop over to my fireplace reveal post for all the details on our fireplace renovation and everything you need to know about mounting a TV above the fireplace.
And for more inspiration, see my post with ideas for a well hidden TV. So now that you’ve seen some options for how to do it beautifully, what do you guys think about hanging your TV over the fireplace – yay or nay?