|   how to build the big screen into the wall? | bhanson
Oct 6, 2001 9:43 PM | | Monday, our contractor will begin roughing in the walls for our home theatre. The room is 15X17. Our idea is to have the the 65 inch tv built into the wall, where all you see is the screen. We are having our contractor bring the wall out 4 feet to make room for the depth of the set, but I still need a removeable sheetrock panel or something that is virtually invisible, but can be removed when we need to pull the tv out. Hopefully this makes sense! Any ideas on how to pull off this "built-in" look while still maintaining access to the back of the tv? Thanks! |
| re: how to build the big screen into the wall? | 4runner58
Oct 7, 2001 6:09 AM | | Let me try to get a better picture of what you are doing here. Are you creating a room that is 4'X 15' (full height) that will house your TV? This would make the viewing room 15X13? If so, you could probably go ahead and put a door into the room.
If it is something smaller like a custom box, you will have to make provisions to pull your TV out of the box. With this situation, make sure you take heat dissipation into consideration.
Do you have one wall in your room that is common to another room? One option would be to push the TV into that room and then build a set of cabinets/bookcases or such that would house your tv (and maybe more). Open the cabinet doors and work on the back of your TV! If it were something like a bedroom, you could expand the cabinets/bookcases across the full width of the wall and have a set of dresser drawers, a desk, or a small entertainment center for a bedroom TV. Just some "out of the box" thinking. |
| Couple of things to consider. | Smokey
Oct 7, 2001 6:34 AM | | What ever configuration you decided for your TV, please make sure your TV is getting alot of ventilation from behind and behind of it is not enclosed.
Also since the frequency of access to the back of TV will not be low due to A/V cable swapping and TV internal adjustment, then I would opt for placement of TV on some kind of wheels-so it can be pulled out with a breeze.
Sorry if I wasn't any help. |
| re: how to build the big screen into the wall? | bahanson
Oct 7, 2001 4:11 PM | | Thanks for the ideas. We are putting the tv along a basement wall, nothing but concrete behind it, which makes it difficult. The wall size is 15 foot wide and 8 feet tall. I really do not want to put a door on either side because I think it will be too obtrusive and we don't have enough room to put two doors in. Our contractor wants to put two screen doors (painted black, with black speaker cloth covering the screen), at each corner to make it look like two large speakers. But this does not sound like the look I am going for in the room. I now am thinking about having him make a large frame out of decorative moulding and trim to frame the tv's screen, but I still have not figured out how to or what to use to make a panel that is large enough to cover the bottom half of the tv, but can be removed when we need to get to the back area of the tv. Hopefully this makes more sense. Thanks for any ideas. |
| re: how to build the big screen into the wall? | recoveryone
Oct 8, 2001 6:28 AM | | I think your talking apples and oranges, you are refering to the outside look of the room and wall and the suggested ideals are refering to the well being of your unit air flow and access. even your contractor is thinking on this level. A door with small handle and no framing will blend in, put in reversed so no hardware will show, just like in the whitehouse oval room.
For the long term care of your unit and access to wiring you need a access way and air flow system to keep things together and cool. |
| re: how to build the big screen into the wall? | DougR
Oct 10, 2001 2:53 PM | | Opened up a Closet and reframed it to fit my 46" Sony.Also built a elevated platform to raise up. Covered the wall with Carpet. Have access to the RPTV from the room behind that wall. |
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