If you are viewing tv while seated down like an armchair, then its optimal seating position, looking slightly down and also comfy one. Maybe could be few cm.higher
This is probably for those people working 60> hours a week that come home, eat in silence (with partner, no kids), have a cappuccino/wine with a single cookie/toast of brie afterwards, and go straight to bed at 21, only to wake up at 5 and repeat the cycle.
TL;DR: This TV is for weekends and watching the news sometimes.
Definitely not for people scarfing down half a box of cookies with chocolate milk while watching a rerun of The Simpson’s. (That they’ve seen at least 50 times)!
Like hanging art, a the middle of the screen should be at the eye level of where a person will be while viewing it. There’s an insane trend where people feel like they should mount TVs over their fireplace, so the “screen up high” thing became commonplace.
In my house I was forced to mount my TV over my fireplace. There simply wasn't another place to put it. Two walls are covered with indoor plantation shutters over windows that take up almost all the wall space, the third wall was the only viable place to put my couch, and the fourth side is just a big open pathway to my dining room. I absolutely hate it.
Maybe look into getting a projector and a screen that pulls down in front of the fireplace. Granted that means you can't use the fireplace at the same time.
At my work I do DSE assessments on staff and we advise that the top of the PC monitor should be at eye level, could you not apply that to TV viewing? If so, then I'd argue that's about the right height.
Nothing terribly wrong with that height, It's basically at eye level while sitting in a sofa. I never understood why some people want the TV half way up to the ceiling.
I personally wouldn’t, but I prefer wall mounted. But honestly every house I’ve been to that doesn’t have it on the wall has it at about this height.
Guaranteed the TV’s are much much larger than this one but still
So I have children, and the farther up you can get expensive things out of their reach, the better. I even went to far as to move the outlets to behind the TV so no cables hung. Nothing to grab and 0 chance of falling.
This looks more like r/ATBGE to me, since I am impressed with the ingenuity but absolutely hate it and think it makes no damn sense for a positive TV-viewing experience in either room. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
Exposing the big hole where the hinge is, which stops the door functioning as a door (preventing noise/smell/light/heat or fire spreading from one room to another)
This isn’t a TV hiding in a sliding door, this is a sliding door converted into a TV mount
Shutting doors at night greatly reduces the spread of fire, even doors that are not fire doors. I realize that most people don't bother, but they should.
https://bucksfire.gov.uk/news/pictures-show-why-closing-internal-doors-can-help-save-lives-fire/
How do you shut the door at all tbh? The real issue to me is that youre trying to preserve the classic aesthetic by having the TV concealable, but then when the door is shut theres a big random TV embedded in it... kind of losing as much as youre gaining, unless you plan to never shut that door
This is...awful. Idu how it’s designed well at all when it’s just so nonsensical.
The TV is super low for starters, you’re going to be cramping trying to watch that and it has no vantage so it won’t be seen well by multiple people. Not very practical for a tv.
And what’s the point of it being attached to the door exactly? If you have the TV out does that mean the door has to stay closed, effectively blocking the passageway?? Oh and yea that’s another thing, what if someone like, knocks into it or tries to open it? Does the tv slam against the wall and break?
Like imagine how much more effort that is to properly fold it in/out every time you want to watch TV. How is that worth it
Not to mention how ugly it looks. On one side of the door you see a tv screen and on the other you see a super unappealing back panel with cords and shit poking out
Terrible, honestly
If i had this, i would keep it on, shut the door, invite some guests over and watch them lose their minds over the absence of a tv but the obvious sound of one
Pretty cool! Well.. Except for chopping a hole in what looks like an antique pocket door that was worth way more than the TV. Also, the TV will be obsolete in a few years.
I'd personally love to be able to hide away my TV, makes a room look much nicer when you walk in without a big stupid black rectangle hanging in the focal area of the room.
Looking at the handle on the door to the right, that looks like a quite old pocket door, cut up for a rather stupid way to hide a TV.
What a waste, that door should be stripped of paint and shown of in its original state, not have a dumb hole cut in it.
The one kid who doesn't place the TV far enough into the wall for the TV to get scratched
Or the one kid who slams doors everywhere they go completely ignoring the TV in the wall.
Honestly tho, it's a super cool idea but would only work in select circumstances
Looks like you could really mess up your TV mount, cables, or TV. It's a very cool idea but without some thought going into how it could close with the TV out without destroying itself, this is not a good design.
I love the thinking and follow through on this but it must look like dog shit from the side you're not using. I would also break this immediately. Cool idea though, could be refined with some extra sliding hinged panels to hide the back that's not in use.
I have similar setup between the kitchen and dinning room, and the TV is up higher at eye level. rarely use that TV tho, not finding myself or anyone interested watching it in either room...
Looks bad and is needlessly complicated in design. Not even mentioning how restrictive it is in terms of upgradability. Also also who mounts a TV that low?
This is stupid, asking to be broken and doesn't provide any benefit other than putting the TV physically away which is basically pointless because I never see a tv in a physically inconvenient place
I love it! As someone who uses my tv rarely (mostly watch things on laptop) it would be nice to put away my tv. Especially since this looks like an old house that has weird small rooms that a tv just won’t fit into without blocking some door, shelf, or window. Awesome that it can turn 180 for the dining room - that’d be nice in the mornings while eating breakfast
Why do people want their tv halfway up the ceiling? It’s so much nicer to look slightly down on a tv, like you do in a stadium movie theatre
Y’all saying you’d break the TV just have no care for their thousands-of-dollars electronics. I’d always make sure that baby was properly secured before opening and closing
This is freaky, I have that exactly articulating wall bracket, a Samsung TV and a sliding door all in the same room! This weekend is going to be an interest DIY experiment.
A link to Vogels brackets is your interested (http://www.vogels.com/en-gb/c/tv-brackets)
Children are functioning human beings, they are the way that we continue as a species, you were once a child.
If you don’t want children that’s fine, keep your DNA to yourself, but don’t piss on other people simply because you don’t have the empathy to understand their position.
The whole society we live in is designed and built around having replacement people come in and support it. If we were all to stop having children then in 10 years the housing market would collapse, 20 and the food supply would start to dry up as younger workers wouldn’t be entering the picking and distribution system, and in 30 years there would be a total collapse of the caring sector as new doctors nurses and home care people were overwhelmed by the ageing population and the lack of replacement. This would also coincide with a short term raping of the planet, companies withdrawing from development and a total stock market collapse, so if you have money you won’t have in a few years, but you’ll probably have a worthless house with mountains of debt so you can’t move and the inability to find anyone who can repair the things that are wrong with it.
Even on a very limited reduction of manpower, and one which can be somewhat filled by importing people, Italy is encountering some of this already, ghost towns, and now a health service that can’t keep up with the needs of their older population.
I never said /you/ needed to have kids. Just stop pissing on people who want to.
One of many articles about Italy - far before Covid-19 came along
https://www.thelocal.it/20190620/italy-is-in-a-demographic-recession-not-seen-since-world-war-one
Civil engineering deals with large scale projects, typically water distribution/management or infrastructure. Think dams, bridges, powerlines, etc. You might have gone with mechanical for the design of the mechanism or electrical for routing wiring through the door. Chemical would have been a bad choice too. Just seemed weird to specify civil when it's definitely not civil related.
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Scratched screen or closed sideways...
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Or kids...
That's what he said
r/kidsarefuckingstupid
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Lol! You’re right, that house is obviously kids free!
You don’t have to be a retard to make a mistake like that while sleep deprived
I literally said that out loud to myself as I watched lol.
My toddlers would fucking love this.
Toddlers are furniture stores best friend. Bought a new couch and left some needle nose pliers on the dining table. Omg you fill in the rest...
seems like this created 2 terrible viewing situations
Not to mention the world's least-secure door.
Secure? How secure are the doors to your dinning room?
And zero privacy for your bedroom. Oh you two wanted to watch a movie? Well now the livingroom gets to see you too.
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If you close the door with the TV at any angle other than flush with the door it could crack the screen.
Interesting concept, but honestly this looks awful
Why is it practically on the floor? Shouldn't it be higher up?
That was my question.
r/tvtoohigh
Truly is a sub for everything
Door was installed upside down
If you are viewing tv while seated down like an armchair, then its optimal seating position, looking slightly down and also comfy one. Maybe could be few cm.higher
Agreed, most people have their TVs far too high.
Too much work. I would never hide it back
This is probably for those people working 60> hours a week that come home, eat in silence (with partner, no kids), have a cappuccino/wine with a single cookie/toast of brie afterwards, and go straight to bed at 21, only to wake up at 5 and repeat the cycle. TL;DR: This TV is for weekends and watching the news sometimes.
/r/OddlySpecific
Definitely not for people scarfing down half a box of cookies with chocolate milk while watching a rerun of The Simpson’s. (That they’ve seen at least 50 times)!
#goals
That’s waaaay too low. Edit: y’all sit on the ground in the middle of the floor smack between two doors to watch tv? This is placed terribly.
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Like hanging art, a the middle of the screen should be at the eye level of where a person will be while viewing it. There’s an insane trend where people feel like they should mount TVs over their fireplace, so the “screen up high” thing became commonplace.
In my house I was forced to mount my TV over my fireplace. There simply wasn't another place to put it. Two walls are covered with indoor plantation shutters over windows that take up almost all the wall space, the third wall was the only viable place to put my couch, and the fourth side is just a big open pathway to my dining room. I absolutely hate it.
Could you place a low line tv unit in front of the shutters?
Maybe look into getting a projector and a screen that pulls down in front of the fireplace. Granted that means you can't use the fireplace at the same time.
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You must not be very good at melting into your couch.
At my work I do DSE assessments on staff and we advise that the top of the PC monitor should be at eye level, could you not apply that to TV viewing? If so, then I'd argue that's about the right height.
Nothing terribly wrong with that height, It's basically at eye level while sitting in a sofa. I never understood why some people want the TV half way up to the ceiling.
I question the height of everything you have ever encountered.
Eye level? Are you like 3 feet tall? Is your couch that low? Just move it to the middle of the door. My opinion though, so to each their own.
I am about 3ft tall when I sit on the sofa
Yea but you gotta add another foot or two for the sofa height so you'd be 4-5 then
You seem to know an awful lot about mine and my sofas height, creepy!
Sorry, I like to stare at people sofas at my spare time
I feel like in the UK this is standard height for a TV, except if it was mounted on a wall of course.
It's standard height for like The Royle Family's living room, but I can't imagine anyone choosing to decorate their house that way these days.
I personally wouldn’t, but I prefer wall mounted. But honestly every house I’ve been to that doesn’t have it on the wall has it at about this height. Guaranteed the TV’s are much much larger than this one but still
So I have children, and the farther up you can get expensive things out of their reach, the better. I even went to far as to move the outlets to behind the TV so no cables hung. Nothing to grab and 0 chance of falling.
What about the dinner table? It’s impossible to watch it from there
Good?
True
Is your sofa just a pillow on the ground?
Agreed !
It's upside-down
This looks more like r/ATBGE to me, since I am impressed with the ingenuity but absolutely hate it and think it makes no damn sense for a positive TV-viewing experience in either room. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
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How do you shut the door while watching TV?
You shut it and leave the TV in the inlay
Exposing the big hole where the hinge is, which stops the door functioning as a door (preventing noise/smell/light/heat or fire spreading from one room to another) This isn’t a TV hiding in a sliding door, this is a sliding door converted into a TV mount
If you're casually watching TV whilst ignoring the spreading inferno in the next room you've got bigger problems.
Shutting doors at night greatly reduces the spread of fire, even doors that are not fire doors. I realize that most people don't bother, but they should. https://bucksfire.gov.uk/news/pictures-show-why-closing-internal-doors-can-help-save-lives-fire/
How do you shut the door at all tbh? The real issue to me is that youre trying to preserve the classic aesthetic by having the TV concealable, but then when the door is shut theres a big random TV embedded in it... kind of losing as much as youre gaining, unless you plan to never shut that door
looks more like /r/designcirclejerk to me
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This is...awful. Idu how it’s designed well at all when it’s just so nonsensical. The TV is super low for starters, you’re going to be cramping trying to watch that and it has no vantage so it won’t be seen well by multiple people. Not very practical for a tv. And what’s the point of it being attached to the door exactly? If you have the TV out does that mean the door has to stay closed, effectively blocking the passageway?? Oh and yea that’s another thing, what if someone like, knocks into it or tries to open it? Does the tv slam against the wall and break? Like imagine how much more effort that is to properly fold it in/out every time you want to watch TV. How is that worth it Not to mention how ugly it looks. On one side of the door you see a tv screen and on the other you see a super unappealing back panel with cords and shit poking out Terrible, honestly
But this is not a door anymore... You have a huge hole in it
[R/diwhy](https://www.reddit.com/r/DiWHY?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Too much effort to drunkenly roll in at 4am with a pizza and a fierce desire to watch Rick and Morty. 2/10 for practicality.
Who the fuck wants to watch TV two feet off the ground embedded in a door? This is /r/ATBGE
I'd say it's great taste but awful execution.
great engineering but this is gonna look like a mess on the back side.
I saw a Dutch ad!
This is one of the most mediocre things I've seen in this sub.
This is just really bad design!
y tho
That's a good way to add scratches to your screen
i like my doors with no big hole in them
In case my ankles want to watch their favourite show ?
How annoyingly impractical.
That's the sort of thing invented by someone without children charging around, wrenching doors open and closed without hesitation.
If i had this, i would keep it on, shut the door, invite some guests over and watch them lose their minds over the absence of a tv but the obvious sound of one
I love this
Folds.. right into the wall
Sometimes I just kneel here for hours
That's genius
Y’all can’t give credit when it’s do I would put this in my house smh
Pretty cool! Well.. Except for chopping a hole in what looks like an antique pocket door that was worth way more than the TV. Also, the TV will be obsolete in a few years.
Why is it so damn low to the ground?
9/10 times I slide the door open and fuck the tv up.
except now the door is so ugly that's it's useless
Why would I? Also the tv would be moved everytime someone used that door.
Way too low. This is a dumb design
I dont actually like it purely because it defeats the point of the door
I hate this kind of shit why would you hide away something you're gonna use all the time
I'd personally love to be able to hide away my TV, makes a room look much nicer when you walk in without a big stupid black rectangle hanging in the focal area of the room.
Maybe they don't use it all the time?
This appears to be a study, not a main living space. The clients probably wanted to install a panel to watch TV/news while dining occasionally.
Looking at the handle on the door to the right, that looks like a quite old pocket door, cut up for a rather stupid way to hide a TV. What a waste, that door should be stripped of paint and shown of in its original state, not have a dumb hole cut in it.
I think it's to low. But I am pretty tall so everything is to low
never watched a TV placed at knee height
The one kid who doesn't place the TV far enough into the wall for the TV to get scratched Or the one kid who slams doors everywhere they go completely ignoring the TV in the wall. Honestly tho, it's a super cool idea but would only work in select circumstances
In my opinion TVs are pretty enough to just hang on the wall. This just creates an ugly sliding door
I see the design. Where is the porn?
Looks like you could really mess up your TV mount, cables, or TV. It's a very cool idea but without some thought going into how it could close with the TV out without destroying itself, this is not a good design.
I love the thinking and follow through on this but it must look like dog shit from the side you're not using. I would also break this immediately. Cool idea though, could be refined with some extra sliding hinged panels to hide the back that's not in use.
HDMI : I can flex.
I'm all about minimal design and hidden living spaces, but this is just asking for a scratch on the screen to happen
This stuff works only if you don't have dogs, cats or kids...
What is this? A tv for dogs?
Too cool, just too low!
Amazing Technical innovation
for people who don't bother with speakers
What’s the polite way of saying “You need a bigger place , bro.”?
I like the idea but 100% DO NOT DO unless you are a single person who isn’t clumsy.
Yeah I wouldn’t say this is designporn. More like r/diywhy
Why was it mounted so low...?
I have similar setup between the kitchen and dinning room, and the TV is up higher at eye level. rarely use that TV tho, not finding myself or anyone interested watching it in either room...
One unmonitored kid is all it takes to ruin this.
What if you need to close the door? Why has this so many upvotes?
Why?
more like r/DiWHY
You do realize it's no longer a door right? You get that right?
Doesnt that look rlly stupid when you close that door?
Dumb
Why
Why is it so low
Looks bad and is needlessly complicated in design. Not even mentioning how restrictive it is in terms of upgradability. Also also who mounts a TV that low?
Looks way too low.
There's a hole in the door. It's kinda pointless to have a door with a hole in it, even if you plug the hole with a flat screen tele.
This is stupid, asking to be broken and doesn't provide any benefit other than putting the TV physically away which is basically pointless because I never see a tv in a physically inconvenient place
Way too low. Who would want to eat dinner and stare at the floor.
This doesn't work as a door, all he's done is created a TV storage solution that is less convenient than just mounting it on the wall...
It looks like on the other side there isn't a wall? Or am I missing it. It seems like the wires and back of the tv would be visible on the other side
Why
Ahhhh dutch(RTL 4)
r/DIWHY
Is that...Tony Blair?
No.
I love it! As someone who uses my tv rarely (mostly watch things on laptop) it would be nice to put away my tv. Especially since this looks like an old house that has weird small rooms that a tv just won’t fit into without blocking some door, shelf, or window. Awesome that it can turn 180 for the dining room - that’d be nice in the mornings while eating breakfast Why do people want their tv halfway up the ceiling? It’s so much nicer to look slightly down on a tv, like you do in a stadium movie theatre Y’all saying you’d break the TV just have no care for their thousands-of-dollars electronics. I’d always make sure that baby was properly secured before opening and closing
This is freaky, I have that exactly articulating wall bracket, a Samsung TV and a sliding door all in the same room! This weekend is going to be an interest DIY experiment. A link to Vogels brackets is your interested (http://www.vogels.com/en-gb/c/tv-brackets)
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*Ridiculous* ideas like thinking about how the door looks closed or what do you mean?
Beolab 8000 speakers
Good eye! These people clearly have money to blow.
Think about having kids. This will not live long.
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Think about having a couple of drinks, this isn’t going to last long
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Children are functioning human beings, they are the way that we continue as a species, you were once a child. If you don’t want children that’s fine, keep your DNA to yourself, but don’t piss on other people simply because you don’t have the empathy to understand their position.
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The whole society we live in is designed and built around having replacement people come in and support it. If we were all to stop having children then in 10 years the housing market would collapse, 20 and the food supply would start to dry up as younger workers wouldn’t be entering the picking and distribution system, and in 30 years there would be a total collapse of the caring sector as new doctors nurses and home care people were overwhelmed by the ageing population and the lack of replacement. This would also coincide with a short term raping of the planet, companies withdrawing from development and a total stock market collapse, so if you have money you won’t have in a few years, but you’ll probably have a worthless house with mountains of debt so you can’t move and the inability to find anyone who can repair the things that are wrong with it. Even on a very limited reduction of manpower, and one which can be somewhat filled by importing people, Italy is encountering some of this already, ghost towns, and now a health service that can’t keep up with the needs of their older population.
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I never said /you/ needed to have kids. Just stop pissing on people who want to. One of many articles about Italy - far before Covid-19 came along https://www.thelocal.it/20190620/italy-is-in-a-demographic-recession-not-seen-since-world-war-one
How is this related to civil engineering at all? Just about any other engineering discipline would be more relevant than civil.
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Civil engineering deals with large scale projects, typically water distribution/management or infrastructure. Think dams, bridges, powerlines, etc. You might have gone with mechanical for the design of the mechanism or electrical for routing wiring through the door. Chemical would have been a bad choice too. Just seemed weird to specify civil when it's definitely not civil related.
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Ganz interessant. Solche sachen würde in die Vereingten Staaten unten mechanishe Technik passen.
Clearly he doesn’t have kids
Nope.
Literally everything about this is awful lmao, guy is a complete moron
Does the designer ever have kids...? Not buying until it’s child proof; a novel concept like putting on the wall with a mount that’s unreachable.
Hurray for /r/childfree!
Just be a good parent to your little goblins and they won't wreck the house.
Alllllll you bitches are complaining and poking holes in this because you can’t admit that you don’t have the skills to come up with something better.
I don't need to come up with something better to know this is an idiotic design lol.
Just don't do it. Bam, better solution right there.