Comment Mettre Arte Tv Sur Télévision

Allow's face up information technology: Televisions are ugly. Yes, there'due south a lot of pleasance to be derived from Netflix binges and moving picture nights. But most of the time, your Tv set is turned off—making it just a big, blackness box taking up valuable wall infinite. If you're not lucky enough to take an in-disguise TV (like the Samsung Frame, which looks like a framed piece of art), the best way to hide that gaping black hole is...with real art! It's a classic designer trick, and some of our most-trusted pros take a multifariousness of ways to practise it, from loftier-tech mechanisms that slide a canvas over the Idiot box to downright uncomplicated comprehend-ups. The proof? Read on for three of our favorite means to use art to hide a television receiver. And and then say farewell to an ugly black rectangle above your mantel for skilful.

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In a living room by Sarah Richardson Design, a Bogdan Molea work hides a boob tube above the fireplace.

Valerie Wilcox

In a slope-side chalet in Ontario, Sarah Richardson and Natalie Hodgins took a high-tech route: They mounted a large-scale artwork by Bogdan Molea on a moveable track. When it'south time for TV watching, the canvas slides upwards to reveal the television—meaning the prime number wall placement above the mantel isn't wasted on a bare screen, and there'southward no need to turn to an awkward corner (away from the cozy fireplace and breathtaking views!) when it'south spotter time.

This mode, Hodgins says, "the family unit tin sit down and watch Tv set, but then, when they're entertaining, it's very open concept and everyone can mill around that space and and then sit at the dining tabular array." No walls wasted + ultimate multi-functionality = a bright design hack.

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A big-calibration painting propped against the Goggle box in Kerri Rosenthal'southward home.

Winnie Au

If creating a custom rail isn't in your budget, you tin however get on board the art-over-TV trend. But ask Kerri Rosenthal, who used one of her ain large-scale artworks to hide the telly in her family room by only propping it against the wall. "One day I want to put it on a track then information technology slides like a barn door," the creative person and designer tells House Cute. "Simply it's been perfectly fine similar this and then far, and then it works!" Note that this method is best with a big, unframed canvas, so it's calorie-free enough to slide and not a danger if it falls (for actress security, anchor information technology with a sturdy doorstop!).

Make an Aesthetic Door

In this living room past Kristin Fine, what looks like a canvas over the mantel is really sliding doors covering the TV.

Nicole Franzen

Speaking of doors, designer Kristin Fine struck a genius balance betwixt artwork and sliding door to hibernate the tv in the living room of her home. "The Telly is above the fireplace and subconscious behind custom plaster sliding doors that were designed to be asymmetrical, to read more like a slice of contemporary fine art when closed," she tells House Cute. To make the look more custom, she also raised the height of the firebox to requite the "art" more animate room. While Fine's doors were professionally crafted, avid DIYers could pigment or refinish builder-grade cabinets for a like look. Later all, who said congenital-ins had to exist boring?

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Hadley Keller is Firm Beautiful's digital director. She oversees all digital content for the brand as well as working on the print magazine. She has covered roofing design, interiors, and culture for x years in New York. She served as Associate Market Editor, Design Reporter, and News Editor for Architectural Digest and Advert PRO before joining Firm Cute. Hadley is a staunch maximalist and song opponent of the Open Floor Programme.