wow, all of your windows and everything make this a tough situation!

I've seen other homes where the TV is near the door. it's not ideal, but it looks perfectly fine from all other angles. the only time it will look a little weird is when you first walk in the door, and who is standing right there all the time? I think you'll get used to it.

Try mounting the TV to the wall as close as you possibly can with something like this. and then try finding a piece of furniture for underneath that barely sticks out. the wainscotting complicates this, so you might need to do something custom.

below is two slim shoe cabinets from Ikea that somebody hacked together. they didn't do a great job with the top, but you get the idea.

Thank you so much, Sabrina! Alas, you may be right about needing to bite the bullet and relocate that thermostat. I just wonder if locating the tv so far to the right would make for awkward viewing from the sofa.

Paint that wall a dark colour and center the TV on it. If you can't exactly center it because the door would hit it, just put it as far over as you can. A bit off-center will not make a difference. You could also use a dark wallpaper - maybe a dark brown grasscloth?

Paint the silvery part of the thermostat the same colour as the wall if you don't want to move it around the corner. (We moved ours a few feet and it wasn't a big deal.)

Wondering if you had room to create a nice entranceway like below by rearranging your furniture and tv issue will also be resolved

Configurations:

1. TV on a corner unit across far left corner, couch facing front window

2. Couch with console behind and only art on entrance wall.

3. living room and dining switched if possible, hard to tell from pictures. Use complimentary pieces in “entrance”

Maybe you could place your round dining table and chairs in the home's front left corner (where the lamp and the living room currently are) then spread out your living area to the middle of the room and accommodate your TV in the area that your dining table currently is to eliminate a walkway in front of it. I think you need to have a nice console table with lamp at your front door, so much more inviting.

I’d take the large art and with the mounted tv center the two pieces, side by side, on that wall, with the art being near the door and tv near the nest. Then the two pieces would give you symmetry on that wall, but the art wouldn’t interfere with the door opening, and maybe replace the tv stand with something a bit taller and more chest like

Did you consider a swivel arm? Even on that protruding wall on the other side?

Replacing Nest and switches means opening up that wall, replacing wiring and repaint.

Anyway, I would like to see how this turns out.

Not a Pro.

I would just mount the tv on the wall with no console and be done with it. Even if it is not centered. Why bring attention to it.

Agree with @njmomma. And painting the wall dark will make it even less of a feature.

all very nice to say no console, but the average real human needs a plethora of boxes and other electronica associated with a TV -- where do you put all that?

Perhaps sharing this image from a design of ours will help you figure out what will work best for your specific space. Note the length of the TV console.

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Look for the longest, most shallow cabinet/dresser/console/bookcase that you can find that you can adapt so the top is the same height as the wainscoating. Paint it white. Place the TV above it. Add mirror, art and you'll give yourself a useful entryway piece as well. Here's a wall-mounted console with TV placed on top:

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You'll say if you'd rather not have a console below tv. I'd think it more 'comfortable' without it, esp. if you have a purse or bags.... ?

Question about thermostat & TV so close together - does the heat generated by TV when on affect the temperature registered By thermostat? Maybe not now but if TV wall mounted close to thermostat, will it then become a problem? Just asking. The suggestion I like best of all offered is a long, skinny & taller console with TV at right & a nice decorative mirror at left. Balances & is nice to have an entry mirror. The one feature that looks off in current arrangement is that TV is way too low & that wall is too bare..ok, that’s two things off!

I agree with Maureen's suggestions above. Place a corner TV console between the two windows and move the couch to face the front window, with its back to the table. It looks like you would have plenty of room between the back of the couch and the table.

Agree with above, move sofa to face front window, and place TV between windows.

Thoughts: I don't love the TV by the door, but in such a small space, it's okay. It allows all the seating to be together on the other side of the room. People don't come and go through the front door all that often.

Your TV stand has three problems:

- One is that the wainscotted wall is traditional, and the colors are cool /match the sofa, etc. ... while the TV stand is a warm color that doesn't match the rest of the room, and it leans mid-century modern. Both are nice, but they aren't friends.

- Second, the TV stand is cluttered and the rest of the wall is empty. I'd choose a closed stand so you can hide these things ... and hang those pictures on the wall. Design the wall with the door closed (because it'll be closed most of the time).

- Finally, the TV is too low. It leaves way too much empty space above, and the TV needs to be above the wainscotting. I'd say get a taller cabinet and mount the TV on the wall (it'll make dusting the top of the cabinet easier).

Other thoughts:

- I don't like the woven chairs and the woven coffee table; the two are competing. Keep one, lose the other.

- Bring in some color and pattern through drapes ... and a rug with some personality.

KW re: the TV in front of the thermostat: I was thinking the same thing. I believe that yes, the back of the TV does produce heat and could throw off nest's thermometer. you can solve it by moving the thermostat, or by buying Nest temperature sensors. you can set the nest app to use any of the sensors you want. we have them and love it. I tend to set my system to always keep my office warm, not the living room. (also, we have three sensors and it's nice to see what temp different rooms are.)

acm re: what to do with the plethora of cable boxes and such: some people hide these in a nearby closet and run the lines through the walls. you can get little receivers that hide behind your TV to continue using the remotes.

or in our case: cut the cord! we don't have cable or a DVR. just a tiny Fire TV stick that hides behind the TV, and a slim sound bar that in theory could be mounted to the wall. the Fire TV remote operates everything.

acm you can purchase a wireless transmitter that sends the signal to your TV from a cable outlet or DVD player etc. Not expensive or complicated. So the TV can go on a different wall or even a different room from the stuff.

I would center the TV between the edge of the open door and the thermostat and mount it on the wall. Then I would hang a piece of vertically oriented art (about 20" wide x 36" deep to the left of the TV, centered between it and the closed door. The open door would cover the art, but it wouldn't be open all the time, so that would balance the TV. Alternatively, you could mount a board with some hooks to hang coats, purses, etc. on as you enter the house. I don't see a coat closet, so that would be handy.

I also noticed the art on the side wall looks too big for the space. What if you hang it to the left of the front window? The wall looks a little wider there. Then you could get something smaller for where you took it down.

I would look into creating a very shallow niche on the present wall so the tv could hang almost flush, with room for any electronics on a shelf or enclosed area just below it. No furniture below.

Something like this or with a cover over the lower shelf and not a red wall, of course:

It wouldn't be cheap but I think replacing the current TV with a wall mounted samsung frame tv would be the most elegant solution. It looks great in art mode and the asymmetry won't look off if it's incorporated in a simple gallery wall. Underneath you can put a thin console table or shoe cabinets.

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THE ONLY THING CONTENTIOUS IS YOUR POST YOU ARE BRINGING POLITICS INTO THIS...YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS IS DISABLED

I did not see any post on this topic by a Greta O. Was it deleted, or are you referring to another post?

Nancy, if somebody flags a comment, Houzz removes it immediately. I don't think its a good policy (I think they should be reviewed by a moderator before deletion), but it is what it is.

Oh, okay

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