Also, once the back porch becomes our four-seasons room, this room above will not be our main living room. It will be a sitting/visiting/waiting for dinner area, but I will still want a TV in here.

This is next to the kitchen, and I can see the bird feeders in the big tree to the left of the window, and the Purple Martin colony to the right. It's my main, indoor, bird watching room.

Caroline we also have the windows on wonly walls in living room. So out TV sits smack in the middle of an 8 foot window. Other wise it would sit smack in the middle of the other 8 foot window.

We bought an LG last year and it is pretty good except for the sound is not great. We ended up hooking speakers to it. Just the cheep computer speakers and it is much better now.

Here is what it looks like in front of the window. and the stand it is sitting on is actually the base to our HUGE gun cabinet. Fortunately the two pieces com apart. Unfortunately it takes double the space this way but works for us.

I was totally against putting it in front of the window but it works very well. I have moved the deer since I took this photo. Was too much in one place.

Adding: I LOVE the flat screen and how it changes the feel of the room. We also have a longer narrow living room at 12 1/2 by 19. The flat screen takes up so much less space. If I can ever get rid of the gun cabinet, both pieces I will set the TV on a trunk or console. Course if the time comes I can get rid of the gun cabinet the TV will be going with it. I am not a TV watcher. Hubby is. OH and this is a 32 inch.

great buy on the tv! maybe you'll need to put the tv in front of the window... or put the tv on the end wall (away from front door), put a small sofa/love seat on the wall between doorways with a chair at the other end by the sofa... have an 'L' sitting area.

that would give you and 'entrance' walkway that clear. maybe a table/cabinet along the wall between front door and hall doorway.

Sorry but the "best" place for the sofa is in front of the window and the TV opposite.

I really don't like a TV in front of a window (sorry Shades) for many reasons.

You don't need a TV in there so, skip it. Than you can use the wall for a sofa flanked by two club chairs.

"I will still want a TV in here"

not a need, it's a want - just like a whole lot of things we have today!

I did ok for 3 wks w/out a tv, watching shows online - but then I got tired of that and had directv come fix the box thing. that was just a want ... that I needed !

Eld6161 I totally agree with the TV in front of the window but we have no walls in our living room so I do not have that choice of which wall to put it on. But since we have done it I got used to it and it is not as horrible as I thought it would be.

caroline...I just wanted to say, that's a very pretty room...

Great buy on the TV!

If I were decorating....I'd put the TV on the wall where you have the club chairs. Walk ways are important. Arrange furniture so you don't have to walk to the far side of the room to get around it.

Any possibility of angling the tv in a corner beside the window? That's what I have done in my current and in previous homes.

Hmmm...interesting conversation! I HATE that we have a TV, for many reasons. I only have it because I love my daughter and it's important to her. I've lived for years without a TV and never missed it.

In our "smaller home" the public spaces of the home--living room and eat-in kitchen--is all one "great room," and we're planning to knock out a built in china hutch to make it even more so. Putting in the same flooring throughout and using the same color theme will make it a really nice, peaceful, inviting space (I hope).

The thing I have never wanted is a TV to be the focus of the room. I only have one true wall in the LR. The outside wall next to the front door is a large picture window, which I love. The opposite wall is a kinda weird bump-out that slopes downward. It is made up of another window and the window A/C unit. There is no wall between LR and K, just the built in thing with a pass-through. The bottom cabinets currently serve as our pantry, so we can't completely block it off. The other wall, the only place a regular sized sofa will fit, is an actual wall. It separates the LR from the master BD, which we are making our library. Of course I want to make it a stunning accent wall (some day!), and I most definitely do not want Joy's 36" flat screen up there! :-)

So, what to do? I have reached a compromise with DD. I'm buying her a new, much smaller TV with HD and other fancy things she wants. We're going to set it on something small but attractive (I'm thinking nice end table if the garage sale gods will bless me), and putting it in the corner betwixt the pantry and the bump out. I can live with this and so can Joy. :-)

Caroline, I'm afraid I don't have a solution to your conundrum, given the parameters you've laid out. :-(

Chris, try as I might, I can't see a deer in that picture anywhere! Haha, it's been my version of Where's Waldo? all afternoon, lol!

:-)

Hahahaha Debbie the deer is right next to the mannequin with a lamp shade on its back. That is also gone and it is just sitting on a table. Actually it is the base to a table. The table is too big for any space I have in this house right now so the top is up in the loft. I kind of have a plan for it later on when I change things all around.

So with you on the TV. Hubby lives day in day out with the TV on. It is not even a year old but it will probably go away when he does. :'( I would consider a smaller one. Then again I now have this one and it is 32 inches like your daughters. Just 4 inches smaller. Right now I really do not know what I will do with it. I do know the DISH TV service will be canceled immediately when he no longer needs it.

I am not against people having TVs in their houses. Most families do have them and some times I enjoy watching a program or a movie if it is not too violent. I would prefer to be in my studio listening to music or an audio book. So I am not much better with the hooked on electronics issue.

I have a corner the TV could be pushed into but the back up heat source is also there so if I needed that heat source the TV would have to be moved away from that corner. Course if I needed the heat source because the electric is out the TV would not be needed anyway.

did you make any decision Caroline on where to put your new TV?