Artful Ideas to Hide TVs that Will Blend in with Your Style

Oct 8

“So much cooler than a frame TV”

For most of us, it’s unavoidable to hang a TV in a central part of the home. When you go through efforts to beautifully decorate the space, the TV can’t help but be an eye soar. You learn to live with it, but it’s less than ideal. But what if there was a better solution, one that was practical and stylish?

Frame TVs are ubiquitous, but they don’t exactly hide the TV itself, just dress it up a bit with digital art. So, why not use real art? That’s the crux of these ingenious ideas to conceal TVs. Or at least that’s what you see on the surface – below them is some clever engineering and joinery that make them possible.

Luckily for us, the designers and home owners who installed these clever ideas have shared exactly how they did it.

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Painted Pocket Doors

Pocket doors are traditionally between rooms or for closet doors, but Lilse McKenna (inspired by Markham Roberts) had the idea to conceal a TV behind them. The panels are flanked by two bookshelves that they can slide behind. But she didn’t stop there, she commissioned an artist to paint the panels with folk art inspired by a piece from the family’s archives. Truly unique in every way.

Painting

In these rooms featuring large scale paintings, you’d never guess there’s a TV behind them. That’s how cleverly they’re disguised.

Laura Jackson was determined to hide her TV but faced an uphill battle. Her idea was to have art slide across the TV like it was appearing to float. Carpenters told her it was impossible or outrageously expensive. But where there’s a will, there’s a way – especially when it comes to making home projects beautiful! The solution, as it turned out, door rollers. In her Substack Laura provides an in depth overview how they did it.

In a different spin of the idea, interior designer Orla Read put the rollers on the outside of a bookshelf, with a painting centered in the the middle. The painting is in two parts and can slide to the side to reveal the TV.

Tapestry

This idea is so simple and easy to pull off, I’m surprised we don’t see it more often. A tapestry that’s large enough to cover the TV is hung from a curtain rod with rings, and the TV is just mounted behind it. That’s it! It could work with almost any tapestry or wall hanging — such as suzani, kantha, or woven blanket — making it truly customizable.

Folding Panels with Art

A bespoke cabinet — in set and tucked between bookcases or simply affixed to the wall — conceals the TV, but it’s truly camoflauged by folding panels covered in art or some decoration.

Leah Lane of My Mulberry House explains the process of transforming a blank wall with custom joinery to house their TV. The panels are filled with botanicals framed in a red that contrasts with the dusty pink surrounding it.

For her own London house interior designer Octavia Dickinson situated the TV cabinet above a chimney. An artist was commissioned to paint the panels with colorful leaves.

Sarah Vanrenen explains that her client had a stunning collection of art and antiques, so the idea behind the TV cabinet was to hide the TV but otherwise blend in with them. That’s how she decided to cover the panel with a facade of book spines. A good lesson in finding creative solutions.

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Melissa Barnes