Hidden TV/ Bookcase Idea

[TheJelley]

Hi,

Hoping someone with cabinet/ kitchen fitting experience can help.

My wife saw this on Houzz:

www.houzz.co.uk/photos/16008967/chelsea-house-tran... (seccond pic)

I am trying to work out the best way of achieving the look, I have found Blum aventos HL hinges https://www.hpponline.co.uk/cat/719/blum-aventos-h... that appear to offer the same functionality but am unsure as to the maximum aperture I can expect when the hinge is fully up.

The TV is 600mm by 990mm, so not sure if I will be able to get an opening big enough.

Are there any alternatives tot he Blum hinges? (bigger and hopefully cheaper!)

Anyone have the opinion that this is mental? I think it may be beyond me, but 6 months in to a house refurb am yet to be defeated, am picking up lots of skills and acquiring tools at an alarming rate.

Apart from the size of the door I would need, the weight would be considerable with the fake books. The plan for the tv would be a fully articulated wall mounted bracket to use when being viewed.

All comments/ mocking gratefully received if constructive.

Cheers

Rhys

[badgerade]

TheJelley said:

Anyone have the opinion that this is mental?

Yes

The books aren't real, so as the person on the other site says, you'd need to find a load and cut them up. It would also annoy me that the false bookshelf doesn't lift right out the way.

If you really want the TV hidden that badly, maybe one of those lift up mechanisms you see on some beds would work?

I would also suggest that you take urgent steps to block access to that site from anywhere your wife can access it, along with other sites such as Pinterest etc.

[Paul Drawmer]

Can't see the point really, the fake books thing is of no use and a dust trap when hiding the TV, and looks awful when raised.

Just integrate the TV into a bookshelf but mount it on it's bracket on the wall behind, so you can pull/swivel it out.

[TheJelley]

Paul Drawmer said:

Can't see the point really, the fake books thing is of no use and a dust trap when hiding the TV, and looks awful when raised.

Just integrate the TV into a bookshelf but mount it on it's bracket on the wall behind, so you can pull/swivel it out.

That is what I am going to do i think,

Cheers

[herewego]

You can buy sheets of fake books for this purpose. It would make an interesting little project. The fake books would make a pointless ornament but then all ornaments are.

[Renovation]

If you could do it using a slider - so that it doesn't look so obvious when it's "unhidden" then fair enough although I'd probably go with an MDF painted wall colour - or a mirror / picture rather than fake books