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Whilst having a feature wall feels like something that’s been around forever, media walls are rather more of a recent trend in home interior design. The idea behind it all is to devote a space to house all your media in order to create a centrepiece that captures people’s main focus as they enter the room. In its simplest form, a media wall is just the wall in your living room or lounge that you have your TV mounted on. However, for the best results many take the idea much further by creating elaborately bespoke stud wall frameworks in which to hide cables, house integrated storage space such as shelves, cupboards and drawers, and incorporate appliances such as an electric fire.
Television Size
When it comes to your television, size matters! After all, if you are integrating storage into the framework of your media wall, it’s likely you’ll want your TV centred, with the shelves, cupboards and drawers either above, below, either side, or even all around. This in turn means you’re only going to have a certain space to play with in the centre for your television. If you’re planning to upgrade to a bigger TV in the future, you may want to think about doing this sooner rather than later, or alternatively decide on a size and factor this into your design.
Peripheral Devices
Next, ask yourself what peripheral devices you have such as games consoles, set top boxes or speaker systems that you’ll need to accommodate a space for in your media wall. You might place games consoles on a shelf to the side of your TV or perhaps in a cupboard underneath, whatever you choose don’t forget to consider cables, which brings us onto our next point.
Cable Management
When it comes to electronic appliances, the last thing you want are power leads, aerial cables, and audio-visual cables messing up the clean aesthetic of your new media wall. It’s important to plan ahead and know where you’ll be placing these devices and leave a hidden channel behind to run any cables to wherever they need to go, like the TV. For power cables you may consider installing some plug sockets in handy reach of your devices.
Want to incorporate an electric fire in your media wall?
Have a look at some of our Electric Stoves
Gazco's E-Reflex Range https://www.croydonfireplaces.co.uk/search?search=reflex
Gazzco's Radiance Electric Range https://www.croydonfireplaces.co.uk/search?search=radiance
Element 4 Electric Range https://www.croydonfireplaces.co.uk/search?search=element+4+electric
Gas Stoves for inspiration for your media wall - We stock Element 4, Bellfires and Gazco which all offer superb inset large gas fires which we regularly fit for media walls (please have a look at our recent portfolio of works below)
Bellfires - Horizon Bell is a very popular model for media walls with gas fires https://barbasbellfires.com/uk/fireplaces/gas-fireplaces/
Gazco Studio range of inset gas fires are great for gas media walls https://www.stovax.com/stove-fire/studio-gas-fires/
Element 4 Summum and Modore range of inset gas fires are a popular range for our clients https://www.element4.nl/en/collection
It all depends on the size of your telly !