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Hiding tv cables above fireplace.
For over a year now it has driven me nuts.
If your fireplace is on an interior wall you may be able to go up the wall however that doesn t work on exterior walls.
Our friend julie blanner has a great project that uses a simple target shelf or you can create your own using crown moulding to hide those ugly wires and cables leading to and from your tv.
Mount tv to wall mount.
Luckily we already had an electrical outlet on a wall directly next to our fireplace on the right lower side of the brick fireplace.
It can be a great solution when you want to hide tv wires over a fireplace.
A flat panel tv above your fireplace is very cool until you try and hide the cables.
It s more function than form and stuff.
How to hide cables and wires.
We all have things about houses we don t like.
We all dream of the ambience comfort warmth brought by a fireplace.
Interestingly it has a stud framing that prevents running cables inside the wall.
This rise in tvs over the fireplace trend has been mine for a while.
Cue the sketch drama music.
Fortunately there is a simple fix aimed at hiding those unsightly wires.
How to install a tv above a fireplace and hide the wires by kristan hart mount a tv over a fireplace hiding tv cables can be quite a chore sometimes requiring you to run cables behind the wall to a television panel in the room behind your fireplace.
Conceal tv wires behind wall trim.
Running cords in a wall above a fireplace have become a popular trend when mounting televisions in homes.
When we got a new loveseat the shelf made it impossible for someone to walk behind the loveseat.
Its major disadvantage is that the cables are not so easy to access under the trim work if you need to remove or add one in the.
The fireplace prevents running the cables straight down the wall and the stud framing prevents running the cables laterally inside the wall.
Oct 31 2017 for over a year now we have had our cable box dvd player and appletv sitting on a shelf to the right of our fireplace.
We then had a cable company install a cable receptacle on the wall directly to the left of the brick fireplace.