I can see our living room TV when I prep at our peninsula, and I agree it is nice. I use it to play music and sing along when I am baking (which I love) or to watch a show when I am cooking (which I do not love) to make it go faster.

In our future home, we don't intend to have our living room off the kitchen (the kitchen noise/smells/light really bug my husband when he is watching TV), so I have been keeping an eye out for nice ways to incorporate a TV in to a kitchen.

This is my favorite so far:

Assuming the peninsula on the right is the primary prep counter, it seemed a nice way to be able to face both the TV and the people at the table if you are chatting while still having a view. A person at the table could also watch the TV easily, as you would like.

Jillius, how far away is your living room tv now? We will have an open kitchen/family room and the TV will be about 16 feet away. It seems far to watch--would have to be loud. But, it may seem like we have too many TVs with that one there... Cute pic. I don't totally understand where you think you will be standing to prep, though.

DH eats at the island all the time and the TV is in the cabinet above the fridge...we had it built with the doors that nest. We figure thats really awkward storage up there anyway.

I have a tiny tv in kitchen, that flips down when you want to watch. I turn it on occassionally but son who sits at peninsula when grabbing something to eat, watches it the most.

Our TV is in the family room and it is about 50 feet away. It's a big one. We can see it fine from the kitchen, it's a straight shot. Didn't want/need another one in the kitchen. 16 feet away is nothing!

We can see our tv in the family room from the island and it is much farther than 16 feet. (might depend on how big it is?) Do you have an ipad? I will often watch a show on there when I'm cooking since I can move it around with me.

The back of our sofa is about 16 feet from our 70" TV and it's just about perfect (I never would have purchased such a big TV, it's my husbands thing.) I'd say you just need a bigger Family Room TV with an articulating arm and maybe just put speakers in the kitchen.

slk, this is like what i have now. I can see the big tv in family room, but have a separate one in kitchen. The new house will have the family room more open to kitchen. Thanks everyone for weighing in.

In our previous house, we had a TV over the fridge similar to Annie. We ate most our meals at the island, so this worked well. Our main TV was in the family room about 30' away. Had some issues when both were on, but overall, it worked well for us.

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We have a TV room upstairs. I wanted a smaller one downstairs but not in the LR. We mounted ours on the wall in the keeping area off the kitchen. We eat most of our meals at the island, where I also do most of my prep. We can see it easily from there.

We have three (!) corners in our kitchen, so I mounted a small movable arm over one corner, and put a small TV on it. I had planned for this, so ran the cable while building the house. It's perfect for working at the stove or sink, and watchable from the peninsula. Our big TV is too far away, and has to be uncomfortably loud to be heard in the kitchen. I can post a pic if you want.

nhbaskets, very similar to our setup. Because our FR TV is in the same space as our kitchen, the TV over the fridge is a slave of the one in the FR so they can only show the same thing at the same time. Good in that we need only one cable box to run them both.

In the before kitchen:

And the after: (TV in keeping room, but on articulated arm. Could angle it more towards kitchen, or just listen.)

I have a cabinet under mount purchased from Monoprice and a 13 inch tv. The tv can swivel and also folds back out of the way for cleaning etc... It also keeps my counters clear for other things that can be stored underneath.

I have been planning on mounting the TV between the kitchen window and dining room window where it will be visible anywhere in the combined rooms. But I normally watch things streamed on my tablet so now I'm thinking of putting art there instead and just continue to prop my tablet wherever I'm working. I usually listen to music or watch TED talks. Don't need to pay for another cable box for that. I'm actually trying to talk DH into ditching cable anyway. He's the only who watches cable shows (mainly sports and news). I pretty much avoid both.

So I'm no help, am I? LOL

funkycamper, you are! I don't watch anything on my iPad, but the rest of my family does. We have satellite, but are trying to avoid too many boxes too. We like TV and have them in a lot of rooms. I do wonder if we need as many as we have since the kids and my DH do watch a lot of on their iPads. Anyway, I appreciate all input. Helps me think it through.

Current house is open and great room TV is plenty big to see from the island, but not from the kitchen table. That works for us. Last house was separate and we liked to watch the news while getting dinner ready. We put a little flat screen above the cabinets (had around 15" between top of cabinets and the ceiling.) That worked for us, too.