#Wire hiding movie
#Wire hiding tv

Plus, the middle drawers were a noticeably different wood grain, so all signs pointed to just paint the darn thing. We had no trouble sanding off the painted details, but the giant oval sections of wood putty behind each of the 6 outer knobs was never going to blend well (such large portions of wood putty just don’t take stain the same way that wood does). Our original hope was to refinish it with stain just like the one we have downstairs, but when we saw it in person we realized that wasn’t a wise plan. Sold to the couple with a thing for dressers-turned-media-cabinets! With that critical detail out of the way, we continued the theme of “well, if we like our downstairs set-up so much…” and stumbled upon this 9-drawer mid-century dresser on Craigslist for $120. Three cheers for a simple selection process. We chose this 50″ Vizio television since we’ve liked our Vizio downstairs and this one was also well reviewed. The TV was actually purchased way before the room was even finished. Back during the holidays we scored a 20% off Target coupon for one item in the store (and it didn’t say “excluding electronics” – woot!). Plus, as we’ve learned after the fact, it’s nice that it faces away from the room’s door because you can’t hear it down the hall.

#Wire hiding tv

There was really only one wall that made sense for the TV in this room, since it was just about the only windowless and slanted-ceiling-less wall in the space (it sits across from the built-ins we shared last month). Adding an infrared receiver (we used this $14 IR receiver from Amazon)īut before we could worry about hiding the TV wires, we had a couple of things to check off our list first.Getting our power strip off the floor (we already had one, so this step was free).

Installing an in-wall cord system (we used this $40 all-in-one DIY kit from Home Depot).Mounting the TV to the wall (we used this $18 mounting hardware from Amazon).So we thought we’d break down the 4 steps that we took to hang our TV, eliminate every visible cord, and hide the cable box.Īll-in-all, these four steps cost us less than $75 and none took more than an hour to execute (a couple only took a few minutes). But in adding a television, we didn’t want to create Cordfest 2016, and have always wanted to try mounting a TV on the wall.

#Wire hiding movie

While our recently-finished bonus room upstairs was never intended to be a dedicated “media room” or “theater room,” we always knew it’d make a great spot for special family movie nights.