Why do you feel you need to mount the tv? It's on a corner stand now and is fine.

It is in the right place. Look at a larger corner stand. The stand should be wider than the TV.

I just don't like it. I am looking for a different stand, but if there is another option for the TV then I'd prefer that. We want a bigger TV, which means a bigger stand and I don't have a ton of space there.

Sometimes what we want isn't what we get. Perhaps a tall corner hutch or shelving unit on the window side would accomodate what you want but it looks like the two corner spaces are pretty similar in size. Closing off a wall just for the sake of a tv seems pretty drastic.

If you go bigger, mount it on the wall. From what you show of the room that is the only place it can realistically go.

Just place on a lighter piece of furniture so that corner doesn’t feel as heavy and I think that’s the best choice/will also add to the room.

It’s important that the other side of fireplace feels balanced.

We have a living room with no place for a TV and we put in a drop-down screen with a projector. The result is we have huge screen that drops down in the middle of the room and disappears when not in use instead of a small TV in an awkward spot.

When considering the space, corner looks fine.

Your thought to close off the room might be the way to go since you want a larger tv. IMO it currently does not look right.

You would then purchase a longer tv stand and put the tv on a articulating mount and have them on part of that closed wall. Maybe you don't have to completely close the wall.

I imagine if I enter your foyer, there is a dining room to my left and the "formal living room" at my right.

Yes.....confirmed!

This is a layout that dates to the nineties and makes no sense now and never made sense. It puts "quiet" space next to kid and family gathering, a ton of upholstery back to back in that adjacecny

Close the wall. Assign even a whole different purpose to the formal, as I doubt you spend much time in it. Make it a "library" I....and adult TV space if you have kids. Make it an office,

But close it: )

Alternatively, draw and measure the spaces combined. ! Show pictures of your other spaces to include all we can't see.. You will get better ideas, options, even ideas for a partial/symmetrical close of the wall.

Seems you have other issues here. so why not get in ONE thread with a lot of pictures, and a FULLY dimensioned floor plan ( all the windows and all the walls and opening have their very own dimensions

In my previous house I had a formal living room (open to the foyer only) and a family room in the back open to the kitchen and with access to the patio.

We made the formal LR into our TV watching room with a 73" TV and a large sectional.

The FR was decorated a bit more formal, with 2 sofas and 2 chairs, and was where we entertained guests. Easy to go from FR to kitchen to outside, while keeping the guests connected. We had a smaller TV over the FR fireplace that we never used.

I really liked having the TV in the LR, specially when I was cooking and DH was watching golf, football, baseball, etc. I did not want to listen to that right there in the kitchen.

Perhaps you could put a larger t.v. on an easel. This one fits a t.v. up to 65".

Another option might be to move the opening from the family room to living room closer to the stairway behind the kitchen wall and make it a smaller opening than you currently have.

Fireplace is flush to the wall, so guessing it is gas.

Remove the mantel and reframe the brick.

I would just put the TV in another room

I believe there are wall mounts that you can put above a fireplace, that allow you to move the TV down (in front of the FP) when you are watching. I'm guessing you wouldn't want to have the TV and FP going at the same time.

Depending on budget you could change the mantle and fireplace surround and add built on the sides with a flat screen (could be a framed tv) above the fireplace.

K Laurence and chispa must have read my mind. "Formal" living rooms (and dining rooms) are a silly designation, especially the way almost all of us live now. Unless you're using that room to entertain royalty, there's no need to be formal. Think outside the box and use a room for a purpose that makes sense for your lifestyle. The living room next to the family room looks to be darker, which makes it better for TV watching than the light-filled family room.

Our living room became my office, and has no TV. If I want to watch something by myself, I watch it on my computer. Our family room is in another end of the house, attached to the kitchen by a hallway, so that's where we gather to watch TV as a group. Because it's not right next to the kitchen, and has French doors, I can close it off and cook in peace while my husband is watching TV.

No TV in the corner, always looks awkward and no fun to use either. I would close the wall or bring the mantle down so you can hang the tv.

lots of good ideas already - one other thought, there are tv mounts that enable you to mount the tv vertically and then pivot it to horizontal and pull it out — you could see if there is sufficient room on one of the corner walls to accommodate something like this - then add a Frame Tv so it looks like art when not in use

Depending on how often you watch TV, the articulating mounts may or may not be practical. In my TV/family room, the TV is on almost all the time so it would be kind of silly to have it pulled out and pivoted permanently. Better to find a more useful spot for it.

Because the room has a label, because it is wide open to kitchen locale and is THE ONLY FIREPLACE......it is probably fruitless so suggest a different locale for tv.

Answer is to close mostl or all of that right hand wall. Give the tv a new spot in the same room.

If ......you add all dimensions for all below - walls, windows openings, passages......

to this?

More concrete answers and help may be forthcoming

The mantle is to high and wide. A combination of Judy’s bottom pic and Emily’s would work.