A fireplace wall is usually a focal point in the living room, and styling it right means a lot as it will create an ambience. Many of us prefer mantels with family photos and seasonal decor but some of us choose to hang a TV over the mantel and make this wall the main attraction. How to style a TV over the fireplace and decorate around them? There are two main ways to go: making your TV part of the wall decorating the mantel and the shelves around or hiding it in plain sight. Let’s find out more information about both.
Styling TV Over Fireplace
If you decided to hang a TV over the fireplace, the mantel or even place it on the mantel, make sure it won’t fall and use sturdy brackets and other stuff to keep it in place. If it’s a mantel, make sure that it holds your TV right. Make sure that your fireplace doesn’t heat this wlal too much to avoid issues with the TV. The main tip is to avoid too bold decor on the mantel and around the TV if there are some shelves, skip lamps right around the TV as all these points will distract you from the screen. Keep the wall neutral or dark and avoid bright decorations or keep them lower than the screen.
The TV over the fireplace is accented with a small arch on the wall, and neutral vases don't distract attention from the screen.
The TV and fireplace are perfectly cohesive in the black marble backdrop.
This fireplace wall looks very clean, sleek and neat and the TV and fireplace are perfect in the white backdrop.
The large and tall storage wall includes a lot of shelves, cabinets, a TV, a fireplace and it's a focal point in the room.
The black fireplace wall is ultimate chic: a built-in fireplace, a slab mantel with decor, candles, an elegant TV in a gold frame and a clock.
The farmhouse nook shows off a built-in fireplace done with beadboard, a mantel and a TV, faux greenery and firewood.
A whole sliding panel hides a TV, and this is a creative idea that is also comfortable in using.
This black beadboard wall is a nice backdrop for a built-in fireplace and TV, and this is a focal point in the room.
This light-colored stone wall shows off a built-in fireplace and a TV over it, it's a natural and textural idea.
The faux stone wall adds texture and interest to the room, and lush Christmas decor makes it look even cozier.
You can put your TV on the mantel and not on the wall if your mantel can hold it well.
The space between the fireplace and TV is hidden with a lush and luminous garland that feels like Christmas.
Keep your mantel quite sleek and non-cluttered and not too bright not to distract attention from the screen.
This TV over the fireplace is a perfectly cohesive piece in the room, it matches the space and the moon adds a cool touch.
The TV over the mantel matches the space as the color scheme repeats what you can see in the room: black, grey and tan.
If you have built-in shelves around the TV, avoid too bright and bold decor as it will distract you from the screen.
This is a classic combo: a built-in fireplace, a sleek mantel, a TV and sconces on both sides.
Seasonal decor on the mantel will make your fireplace wall much cooler and lovelier.
Hiding TV Over Fireplace
This is another solution, and my favorite means to do that is to buy a frame TV, which can show any picture or painting when off. Basically, it’s an artwork added over the fireplace, and I can’t imagine a better idea than that: it adds decorative value and it shows your favorite films. As for other solutions, you can go for usual, folding, barn and just sliding doors, which will hide your TV. More than that, you can cover these doors with art recreating the same idea with a frame TV. Choose the idea you like and go!
This fireplace is beautifully styled with a garland with a bow, a frame TV, a lamp and some candles. (via chiquehomeliving).
Hide your TV with artwork or posters, so you will achieve a neat and cool look.
We love artwork frame TVs! They allow to make your space cooler and show off your favorite art changing it from time to time.
The TV is hidden with barn doors that perfectly match the style of the space, and Christmas decor adds coziness.
This gorgeous artwork is a TV piece, which looks like a chic painting and adds a lovely and refined feel to the living room.
Cover the TV with a boho fabric piece or artwork if it matches your space style.
Hiding your TV can be realized with a door or a folding door, so it will look sleek and stylish.
If you have a TV that can look like a painting, this is a cool solution as it will add decorative value to the room.
Simple folding doors guarantee a stylish look with no TV seen, and can open them whenever you want.
The stone fireplace constrasts the white doors, which hide the TV, and bright plates around accent the wall.
This beautiful landscape art is actually not an art but a TV combined with a built-in fireplace.
Sliding art pieces are the coolest way to hide a TV because they are easy in using and they look nice.
This fireplace wall is adorable: there's a built-in fireplace, a mantel with a Christmas village, a TV with a lamp over it. (via soulandlane).
Your frame TV can turn into a sophisticated artwork of any kind, and this is a gorgeous idea for any room. (via jayneytravels).
The neutral room is accented with black touches: frames and fireplace, and the black framed TV continues with this idea.
Hide your TV with artwork panels or doors if you don't need it often or if you want to keep everything chic and clean.
The small and shallow niche in the beadboard has a TV inside, and the TV looks like art, the stained mantel adds to the look.
This is a lovely frame TV that can show any art or other items, and the mantel styled with seasonal decor adds to the look.
Classic doors are much easier to build in and won't break the bank while keeping your television unseen.
A white brick wall is softened with a wooden mantel and baskets, while a frame TV is like an artwork over it.
A frame TV is a perfect way to hide your piece in plain sight and add chic and interest to the room.
This TV is a pure artwork as it can show any paintings and art you like, and a neutral mantel not only matches the frame but also doesn't distract attention from the screen.
A frame TV always looks nice and cool as it becomes a lovely painting as soon as you want.