Wall-mounted flat screen TVs are everywhere. They are being installed in family rooms, bedrooms, home gyms and offices, laundry rooms, playrooms and kitchens. And why not, with their falling price points, even 80” flat screens are now within reach.

HOW DO WE INTEGRATE THESE LARGE BLACK BOXES INTO OUR ROOMS?

Designers have been tasked with this challenge time and again and have gone to great extremes to hide these “monstrosities” from plain view – putting them in cabinets and armoires, installing panels, mirrors and sliding doors to cover the screens, retracting them into walls, ceilings and bookshelves and even nixing TVs from rooms all together.

Rather than hide them however, my partner, Ryan Schiestel, came up with a fantastic way to integrate flat screen TVs into the décor by “dressing them up” and making them look like works of art. In fact, it’s become a signature of sorts for Talie Jane Interiors. Ryan works with our custom framer to frame the TV so it appears to be artwork rather than just the necessary, flat, black rectangle.

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