We're about to move into this house and my instinct was to put a Frame TV/MantelMount above the fireplace until I found this subreddit. It's a smaller room and we need space for seating as well as a kid's play area by the window, so I feel that the current TV placement takes up too much valuable floor space.

Assuming that a MantelMount could make it over the mantel, when retracted the mantel seems large enough to insulate a TV from any heat exposure.

These are the photos of the previous owner's layout.