A Lounge Room Built Around a Different Era
Lutana’s older homes go back to the 1920s and 30s, built as company housing for workers at the Electrolytic Zinc works down the road, and their compact original layouts were never designed with a flat-panel television in mind. This household’s lounge room had the TV sitting on a low cabinet against the main wall, eating into a room that wasn’t especially big to begin with, with cords trailing down to a power board and a stack of set-top boxes underneath it.
Getting the TV Off the Furniture and Onto the Wall
Moving the television onto the wall through our TV wall mounting gave the family the floor space back and let the screen sit at proper eye height from the couch, rather than low down where the old cabinet happened to be.
Finding Solid Fixing Points in an Older Wall
Homes of this vintage in Lutana are usually timber-framed with older wall linings rather than the plasterboard-over-standard-stud-spacing you get in a newer build, so we located the actual timber framing behind the wall before drilling rather than assuming a generic stud pattern would line up. That meant the bracket went in on solid fixings rated for the weight of the screen, not just wherever happened to be convenient.
Hiding the Cords Behind the Wall
We ran an in-wall cable management kit down to a new recessed power point through our data port installation, so the power lead and any other cables disappear straight into the wall instead of hanging down in view underneath the screen.
The Result
A wall-mounted television at proper viewing height, no cabinet taking up floor space, and no cords on show, in a lounge room that now looks a lot more like it was built for the TV rather than the other way around.
If You’re in Lutana
A lot of the housing stock around Lutana shares that same older build era, which means finding the right fixing points matters more than it does in a newer home with predictable stud spacing. If you’re thinking about getting your television off a cabinet and onto the wall properly, Give Michael a call, or request a free quote and we’ll sort out the mount and the cabling in one visit.