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Not only a theft deterrent, but also a potential canvas for all when you’re tired of watching “Hooper.” – Frankie Fix-It
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Also, in that same house, there is a moose head mounted on the wall, but in the next room is the rest of the moose.
and it’s understandably pissed.
Whenever you walk by, it snorts at you and makes loud noises. Great for keeping the trick-or-treaters on their toes.
I hope they aren’t renting, or they can kiss their deposit goodbye.
Isn’t the current recommendation to remove the TVs from your kids’ bedrooms?
Especially when watching p**n?
Good point, considering the room to the back receives the audio from the p**n.
What’s so bad about the word “plan?” I enjoy making a plan, watching a plan unfold, seeing a plan my friend made, and listening to a plan from the other room. Without plans, this whole world would screech to a halt. The President makes plans, every businessman makes plans, and students make plans. Parents even make plans with their children. So what’s wrong with the word plan?
I love it when a plan comes together.
The kids come home early and then your plans are ruined.
I know a guy who did exactly this! Then sold his house! lol. the people who moved in were PIzzzzzzed. hilarious.
Seen already – in a comic strip! They must have taken it to the ‘letter’ (or should I write ‘image’?).
that’s a good way to void the warantee from 1994
This is actually between two houses, the neighbour’s feud continues…
This could be easily concealed with a nicely placed antique armoire, with the back sawed off.
Convert it into a chest and put an aquarium on it and wait for sparky!
This concept has all kinds of applications, including fashion. Hide that junk in the trunk!
i bet they have a glory hole in the bathroom..
but it doesn’t go to another bathroom. it goes into the daught…uh…guest bedroom
My dad did this 20 years ago with our living room tv but it backed into a closet. Pretty genius when it doesnt back into a room that is used.
In the days before flat panel TVs this was a very nice custom installation for a home theater with a rear projection TV. It wasn’t common, because people usually don’t have a closet or other “dead” space on the other side of the wall, or they didn’t want to make such a big hole in the wall.
This was a *win* 10 years ago.
I hope for their sake that door swings out into the hall….
Nope – you can see the hinges on “our” side. It hits the TV hardly halfway open…
No the are hinges on our near the bottom
If you go through all the trouble to build that in you should at least pop the now useless door off it’s hinges and get it out of there.
Why? If you pay attention to *both* pictures, the door in the second one appears to be *closed*, and is on the other side of the wall where the shelves are in the first pic. I’m presuming the back of this setup is a storage closet or similar room–and I’m wondering where the kludge in this is–it seems like a pretty *normal* design, even with extra points for having the back side in a space you can actually move around in rather than a tiny space.
Nah, that room doesn’t look to me like a storage closet. Most people I know store their unused rugs rolled up, not flat on the floor.
In addition, there’s a footstool strategically positioned by the door so that the door hits it when opened, thus warning that something not-to-be-hit-with-door is there….
you can tell the quality of workmanship by the amount of debris left on the floor. look at the top of the telly at the cut in the wall, its about as straight as a dogs hind leg… lol
I used to go to a bar where they actually built a little lean-to addition on one side of the building to house the back of their big screen TV. It was a pretty small bar, and a pretty big TV.
Ninja TV has killed your flatscreen, and is waiting for you to fall asleep.
This makes me wonder how many structural supports they removed from the wall to make the TV fit.
They support the arts, not necessarily their own house.
It’s odd to make such a big hole for such an old TV, and hopefully there’s a stopper on the hinge to keep the door from opening too far, but otherwise it’s quite similar to my plans for remodeling my basement theater room. Instead of cutting a hole in the wall, I’ll be building the wall, and it’ll be an LCD or plasma. But it does give an idea on how to make a display seem impossibly thin and bezel-free.
Basically, I’ll be constructing a room behind the display that will house all the source devices, with a wired IR repeater for control, and ventilation. Only the gaming consoles that have wired controllers will be an issue. I’ll be integrating places to hold wireless controllers and their chargers. Automatic source switching whenever possible.
Mount the TV flush with the wall and frame with wooden molding, so it’ll look like a picture on the wall. A motion picture on the wall, that is. Build a cabinet flush with the wall below the TV for the game equipment. Hide the cabinet by putting wainscot paneling along the wall, and make the cabinet doors of the same material, so it blends in. Or put a chest or other furniture item in a corner, and drill a hole in the back, and also in the wall, to route the cables. You may need extension cables to connect the game consoles to the TV, but it’s another possible place to hide the game equipment, and make it look like you’re not hiding anything.
I am strangely drawn to this exchange. Must be all the talk of drilling…
saw a diffrent version on mtv’s cribs
If you really want to hide a TV put it in a wall behind a one-way mirror–when it’s off you don’t see anything but your own reflection. Somebody did that in his bathroom so he could watch the money markets while shaving.
Remember those old console TV sets with the big wood-veneered particleboard cabinets? I once cut a small hole in a wall to absorb the little box on the back that was typical of those sets, so there was a bit more space in front.
I’ve seen a microwave oven built into a wall in the laundry room at a motel.
There is no door to be seen on the frontside of the TV-set. It should be on the right side of the screen.
No door, no doorhandle, no nothing. These two pictures do not corroborate.
actually if you look carefully, the door is shut and perpendicular to the wall with the tv, not in the wall with the tv
I’ve got one of those types of TV (it was free). You really don’t need any sort of theft deterrent with them. I figure that if I wake up one morning and find I’ve had it stolen I’ll either 1) throw a party because it means someone saved me the effort of getting rid of it, or 2) get dressed, phone an ambulance and tell them to meet me 100 yards down the street where the thieves will be having a coronary from the effort of carrying it.
you win!
that’s cool
The Jones’ are getting desperate when it comes time to stage their house for sale.
So cutting a whole in the wall was a better idea than buying an LCD tv?
sledgehammers are cheap
Ten years ago, this was a WIN. I had a friend who built a false wall 4 feet in from the real wall with an access, and was able to “flush-mount” not only his projection TV but all his other components as well, with all wiring concealed. Looked great!
Look at the right-side picture, near the left edge. Note the door knob; there’s something in front of it.
I swear, it looks like the tip of an ironing board. I wonder what that room is used for….
I recall visiting the Frank Lloyd Wright home and studio in Oak Park, IL when I was a kid, and he’d done the exact same thing with a baby grand piano. So yeah, this is totally classy.
I would love to see the day that TV dies and you have to buy a flat panel, and you have no where to hang it or you have a big whole in your room
It’s not like rebuilding a wall is hard. I presume it’s a plasterboard wall, so you’d just put the timber structure back in, plasterboard over, then plaster and paint. Shame they didn’t build an MDF cabinet to mask the rear of the TV in the other room.
This isn’t much of a kludge. I’ve seen many houses that have tvs like this built in. Most have the back in a storage room or some unused space.
I agree. My Dad did this years ago, as did my uncle. I would have done it, but I managed to get a great deal on a TV that ISN’T 3 feet deep.
You can’t put a 3 foot deep TV in an area with 4 feet of clearance. Well, you can, but it sucks to move around.
Some people just like CRT better
As a kid I watched my dad do this to our kitchen with a sledghammer in a really *angry* way when my mom arrived home having bought a new gizmo called a ‘microwave oven’ without warning. Me and my siblings sat cross legged on the floor engrossed in wonderment as dad raged, mom cried and the masonry flew…
He he, happy childhood days