Well Hung in the Living Room

Borne out of necessity for their own survival (with a new child being the natural enemy), I finally got around to wall mounting my plasma and front speakers in the Living Room.

The main problem I had was that a single brick wall does not have a cavity to hide the cabling, and I wasn't prepared to live with ducting going up the wall to the plasma.

The solution was to build false wall or box out of MDF and use it to conceal all the cabling, and to mount the speakers.

The construction was quite simple; a couple of pieces of 4"x 2" dynabolted vertically to the wall, cut a hole in the middle of an MDF sheet and screw it on, then cut another couple of MDF piecesand screw them in to hide the mounting battens. There is a 2mm gap between the top of the entertainment unit and the bottom of the MDF panel.

The top and bottom are open to allow cables to run freely and provide ventilation for the plasma. The tilting plasma mount from Selby Acoustics is bolted directly into the wall for maximum strength, and the speakers are screwed into the MDF.

Now all I need to do is paint the MDF the same colour as the wall, and it should look like a professional install.


UPDATE:
Here's some photos after the indiscriminate use of a paintbrush. I painted it the same colour as the wall to give that 3D effect, and also follow good interior design principles of not introducing too many colours into the room.