Jambo
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My room is 5years old in its current guise, its well weathered with lots of dents scratches chips and marks, some furniture was cheap and is now tatty others i have deemed to large for my room. Also being 26 this week the whole red walls and ceiling is feeling a tad too "immiture" for my liking, plus the fact on a sunny day i cant see fuck all in here 
Going to paint every surface white/cream or similar so itl brighten things up.
Bed is being moved and that means TV will move too and due to space i want it on the wall
How do i do it? How expensive is it? And where do i put all the wires??!
Also i havent decided what to put the xbox/hcs/bluray in/on yet, suggestions? Wall mounted shelf unit thingy?
Suggestions/pix please 
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Colin
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At 26 you should be in your own gaff laddie 
Is you walls solid or stud?? Wires go either behind the wall or in front with some trunking to make it look neater.
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Jambo
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Average house buying age is 33 Col Plus i have a shit job i cant afford a mortgage 
Homelife is ace, im a family man and enjoy no boundaries here...
anyway
No idea what kind of walls i have, i think solid as i had difficulty drilling to hand my curtain pole a while back
where do you get trunking from?
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Colin
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Yadda Yadda
Ok man no worries. I like to feel the breeze around my balls so need my own place
Erm if you chap it & it sounds hollow its stud, if not its going to be brick & plaster.
Trunking probably from B&Q or Homebase or some online AV store maybe.
Something like this - http://www.theplasmacentre.com/product_details.php?products_id=1069&cpgn=111&icid=H110-14131920-099MEVAPPC10165&gclid=CIPx-47X6ZoCFQIMswodMSySCA
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myke
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you probably struggled to drill your curtain poles if you were going into a lintel rather than the walls were tuff, but i'd guess you'd have solid walls there anyway.
You really been there 5 years already?
A mate just painted his bedroom in Hessian. Not as dark as actual sack cloth, but not as light or gay as magnolia. works well with gloss white frames.
AK did something pretty funky with a DVD rack, but that was in a stud wall, so probably not applicable.
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C2RL R
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i would consider chasing the walls out for the cables as trunking looks garbage. if you are totally redecorating it would be an easy job.
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Kathryn W
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quote:
Originally posted by myke
A mate just painted his bedroom in Hessian. Not as dark as actual sack cloth, but not as light or gay as magnolia. works well with gloss white frames.
My bedroom is Hessian - I love the colour and i agree with it working well with white frames etc....
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Cavey
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What's wrong with Red walls when you're 26
Saying that, it's not my bedroom, is the games room, and i wanted it dark for TV/PC viewing etc...
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pow
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2x2 timber and radiator brackets is what my 32"er is held in by.
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A2H GO
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Average house buying age is 33 Col Plus i have a shit job i cant afford a mortgage
Homelife is ace, im a family man and enjoy no boundaries here...
anyway
No idea what kind of walls i have, i think solid as i had difficulty drilling to hand my curtain pole a while back
where do you get trunking from?
I had to choose between a decent car(which funnily enough would have been an M3) or my own place...i bought a house...i feel i may have made the wrong decision however i do love having my own place. Didnt know 33 was the average age of a FTB, im 23
Trunking from B&Q my friend.
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GT4Brody
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Defo chase the cable in if it is solid walls (not stud) i did ours last yr. Had trunking for a while but lloked shit imo so chsed it in when i decorated. You can get plastic conduit that goes in walls, its kinf of an oval shape. They do it in most electrical wholesalers eg tlc edmondsons qvc maybe even b and q. Chase the wall out with hammer and bolster/chisel fix plastic tube in positon then plaster over. Job done! I had to cut the moulded plug off the lead for tv, but no great shakes, just put normal plug on and fed co ax cable through and have sky on it too.
Lcd wall brackets are quite cheap these days, i would reccomend one you can adjust the angle on...
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ash_corsa
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
2x2 timber and radiator brackets is what my 32"er is held in by.
Why not use a proper bracket tight-arse?
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pow
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Because I had a proper bracket and felt it was shit.
Homemade FTW
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M2RTY
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see my living room and tv posts...
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AK
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We had stud walls in the edinburgh placey.... Mount the stand on posts (or improvise if no posts where you need them). Ran the cable behind the plaster board and down the the floor.
In aberdeen (kitchen) the walls are plaster and lathe. So a bit of channeling (chasing) and feeding behind was needed.
It looks MUCH better with no cable visable.
I mounted the cables through a small tube that was plastered in to the wall. Meanign you can plug the TV power and aerial in when its not up against the wall.... then just slide the excess cable through when your mounting in.
Pics in a couple of threads on here of both wall mounted TV's and a DVD rack build into the wall.
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Graham88
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I had a proper bracket when mine was wall mounted, was about £100 or so, drills very deep into the wall, never had an issue
[Edited on 07-06-2009 by Graham88]
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AK
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you can get them a lot cheaper than that
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John
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Cheap ones are better imo.
They also don't need anywhere near as much to hold them up as people think.
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ash_corsa
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Cheap ones are better imo.
Dont agree with that to be fair, decent cheap brackets are usually substantial enough but i wouldnt say theyre better at all.
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Jay
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
2x2 timber and radiator brackets is what my 32"er is held in by.
How have you done that? Pics?
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pow
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quote:
Originally posted by JayM
quote:
Originally posted by pow
2x2 timber and radiator brackets is what my 32"er is held in by.
How have you done that? Pics?
I can take some no problems
Will do tomorrow hopefully 
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noshua
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ahem
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Scotty_B
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False wall to have the screen sitting flush. 
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AK
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dont really like the idea of false walls... you'll lose a good few inches off the room
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AK
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http://corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=366998&page=12
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Originally posted by AK
fitted the new kitchen TV
one in Edinburgh
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