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Placing a TV Over Your Fireplace: Design Ideas

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}.

Another option is to go big and not only add a molding around the fireplace but also bookcases on each side – love this look:
Can you believe that the only thing on this wall used to be a simple fireplace? You can see all the details of Sarah’s extreme fireplace makeover {here}.
Being a lover of symmetry, I also love the look of this TV in a recessed nook over the fireplace flanked by twin sconces (from Style at Home {here}):
What do all of these images have in common? The TV is surrounded with decorative molding that extends from the top of the mantel all the way up to the ceiling that’s painted the same color as the molding around the fireplace – seems like a formula for gorgeousness!
So what if you have a two story fireplace? Kelley Nan’s two story stone fireplace is a great example of simple being best – she mounted her TV above the fireplace close to the mantel so it almost looks like it’s resting upon it:
Check out more images of Kelley Nan’s gorgeous fireplace and family room {here}.
Of course there’s always the option of creatively hiding the TV. One of my favorite solutions for hiding your TV over a fireplace are putting it behind sliding or hinged doors. Alicia & Nick created a classic craftsman style fireplace with bifold doors the open to reveal a hidden TV – you wouldn’t have even guessed that there’s a TV above their fireplace would you? So beautifully done!

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}.

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UPDATE: In your most recent home, we mounted a Frame TV above our fireplace:

Our new, more modern fireplace mantel

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?

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