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#Picture wall living room tv#

As you can see in the old photo below, we had ours resting on the media cabinet for years.

#Picture wall living room tv#

And if you’re looking to cut the cord, here’s how we did that.īut it’s not absolutely necessary to mount your TV to create a good-looking frame gallery around it.

#Picture wall living room how to#

That post also shows you how to hide a cable box if you have one. That whole process only takes an hour or so and is SO WORTH IT. We’ve got an entire post dedicated to creating a cord-free TV wall if you’re interested in a step-by-step tutorial on that. We also decided to mount our new TV on the wall and used one of those in-wall power cord systems to hide the wire. Readying Your TV For A Gallery Wallįirst, if you listened to last week’s podcast you heard that we got a new TV (the old and very faithful one now lives at the beach house, reunited with our old couch and it feels so good). I’ll be the whale if you’re that big school of tiny reflective fish. And since I get a bunch of questions every time we show a smidge of it on social media, this post is for everyone asking about framing arrangements, what to frame, how to hang them, and where we get our art.

Things have evolved A LOT in that room since then (hello paint!) and the gallery got a few tweaks (some new art there, some frame switches there) but it has pretty much stood the test of time.

We first blogged about adding a frame gallery around our living room television, oh, FOUR AND A HALF YEARS AGO (evidence: here – also how funny is the “What Does the Fox Say?” reference – ah, 2013). And you can always turn on Planet Earth, since that makes any TV look like art in a nanosecond. It’s not like the TV disappears when you add a gallery – but at least you have a few other (prettier) spots to rest your eyes. It’s often this hulking dark thing on an otherwise bare wall, so why not break things up and add a few other rectangular things to deemphasize it. Why? Well, that big black box isn’t exactly gorgeous. But one spot I love for a gallery wall these days is actually around a TV. They totally have a gallery wall going up their formal staircase in the foyer where Kevin sleds and hurls paint cans. But I’d argue that a collection of picture frames hung together on the wall feels pretty classic if you stop and think about it. It makes sense that picture gallery walls on every wall (especially the ones with a ton of tiny frames) might feel a little less “new and fresh” these days. Some say gallery walls are trending out in favor of larger scale art.