I’m not a fan of entertainment units, but where else can we put the TV and stereo?
The easiest solution: Just put the TV on a piece of furniture you do like. Really, who says you can’t set a TV on an elegant marble-topped coffee table against the wall? Or on an antique wooden credenza that was sitting in the dining room section? The point is, don’t limit your search to the entertainment unit department. Once you’ve set up your television, decorate the area with beautiful items to take the focus away from the cable box. Try bookending some art books on either side of the TV, or lay one or two on it. Or, add a vase of beautifully twisted lucky bamboo on the table next to the screen. If you have some old or ugly surround sound speakers, wrap them in a fabric you like (despite your hubby’s possible protestations, be assured, the sound will go through it). But here’s a really cool insider design secret: The reason you don’t often see the cable boxes, DVD players, and wires in all those fabulous photo shoots, is that they’ve relocated them to a new place entirely. Where are they most often? In a closet. It’s like the in-home version of having a CD player in the trunk of your car, instead of visible inside the car. “In one client’s house, I hung her flat-screen TV adjacent to a closet,” explains Johnny White, interior design consultant and art director for Bravo’s Top Design and Top Chef Miami. “We put all the other boxes -- like her cable box and stereo -- into the bottom two feet of the closet, and tucked the cords along the floorboards.” This can, however, cause an issue with the remote. Clients with more money, says White, add remote systems, like Bang and Olufsen BeoLink, which allows you to operate the system via a wireless signal.
by Amy Spencer
6/19/08
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