Hi all.

To begin with, in brief, can a large scale version of this work in my room:

Here's my floor plan:

My mother recently died and I have inherited her home (the home I grew up in). It is an old 1940s house with fairly small rooms (though the house on the whole is fairly large). I am wanting to have a built in unit created in the living room. It will hold the ridiculously large TV plus devices, offer storage, and some display space in shelving. The unit can have in-built lighting and I have an excellent joiner who will be able to make it to a very high standard.

The stats (metric):

TV width x height (65 inch TV): 145x83 cm

Room is 5.1m long by 3.63m wide.

Ceiling height is 10 feet (3.05m)

The cabinetry will be at the end of the room on the 3.63 wide wall. As you can see from the TV stats the TV is nearly 1/2 the wall width!

The entrance door to the room is 60cm away from the wall this unit will be built on and the unit will be presumably 50cm from the wall at the sides (perhaps deeper in the middle where the TV will go). This means that when the unit is completed, the entrance door will start a mere 10cm away from the cabinetry. We have the option of hanging the door from either side of the door frame so that may help.

The first photo I attached is a unit style that is similar to what I am wanting followed by a very basic floor plan that shows the size of the room with a small line to illustrate the 50cm wall unit and the doorway. You can also see the TV outlined on the wall (albeit only in the width form).

Here are my questions:

1. Do I build the cabinetry to fill the wall (wall to wall, floor to ceiling)? My hope is to make the TV feel less gigantic for the room and for the cabinetry to not feel overwhelming and large. I am concerned the cabinetry may be too excessive for the room given its size and wonder if another approach may be better.

2. Is the entrance door (from the hallway) being 10cm away from the finished cabinetry a problem? I should note that the 10cm is the start of the 9cm architrave, not the door opening itself which is, obviously, 19cm. The entrance door will be partially glazed (upper half).

3. Is there a better alternative to this option? The room is being renovated extensively so there is quite a bit of flexibility at this stage.