If you have a flat-screen TV in your living room...

CubbyMama

...do you happen to have pics of how it's set up?

We're getting a fat tax refund and saving most of it, but are getting a new TV and entertainment center for our living room.  I can't find an entertainment center or TV stand I like, though.  Ideally, I want one with doors that close around the TV when it's not in use, but that seems to be hard to find.

With just a TV stand, it always looks like a death trap to me (although I assume you have to anchor it somehow either way so DC's can't knock the TV down, right?).

I guess I'm looking for pics and/or suggestions?

korr04

I have a pic somewhere, let me find it...

JOEBunny

The one in our living room, where DD plays is not all that big, maybe 36 inches.  It sits on top of a cabinet that goes in the corner where we keep some of DD's toys.  DD wasn't tall enough to reach it until she was over 2 and has never tried to touch it.  It is not that easy to knock over.

We have a 52 inch in our media/hobby room and it is on a regular stand with open shelves, like they have at best buy.  I can't imagine having a cabinet big enough to close the doors around it.  That would be huge.  DD hasn't ever made a move toward it, but she is not in that room unsupervised, except when I shower and then she is usually watching Super Why and doesn't move from her perch.

AnneUCSB

Not sure if you can tell in my sig pic, but our plasma is just sitting on top of a console (that we used to use to hold dishes). ?It is kind of a temporary set up until we can afford a nicer stand for it. ?We didn't mount it on the wall because we didn't want it too high (the only wall space we had was above our fireplace).

KrisBriMcBunny

right now ours is sitting ontop of our dead TV console yeah i know very redneckish.  We are getting ready to have it mounted on the wall.

Aliliv

I don't have a pic, but ours is mounted on the wall.  I'm looking for some nice shelving to put under it, but I can't find anything I like, either.

Purrrfect433

We just have ours on a stand. They're not allowed to touch the stand or the tv and I am almost always in the room with them if the tv is on. It's not flimsy, though, so they'd really have to be rough-housing or climbing on the stand to knock the tv over. That would NEVER happen. If you're worried, would you considere getting it wall-mounted? We can't do this because we live in an apartment. But, it would definitely solve your potential problem.

korr04

This was taken on my husbands camera phone when we first did it, before kids.  There is clutter on top of the hutch, books on the bottom right and tons of toys on the floor to the right.  His stereo equipment is on the bottom left and we use the drawers for movies, etc.  All of the speakers are for surround sound.

CubbyMama

Hmmm.  Right now (and I literally mean right this second, so please excuse the mess!) ours looks like this:

So we have that big niche to fill, which is why I think an entertainment center might be better than just a stand or a wall mount.  I'd like the Tivo, Playstation, etc. to be hidden from view and not stacked on an open shelf, too...

DesignerMama

We don't have one. But when we do, it will be mounted on the wall with a long, low console underneath it. Possibly some tall shelves on both sides. There is something almost identical in the PB catalog.

A-baybride

Ours is wall mounted.  This picture is actually from when we were in the process of buying our house (the tv came with it - big selling point for DH!), so it's our seller's entertainment center & furniture.  3+ years later, I'm still looking for the perfect media center to put beneath it.  I want one with glass doors to put all the components behind (away from little hands), which is really hard to find!

 

hopefulmom

Ours is mounted on the wall.  No wires since my DH hid them behind the wall.