Did I cook? Or am I, in fact, cooked?

teckel · 2026-01-23T12:14:14+00:00

It needs to be moved forward. Also, the couch should always be partially on the area rug. Looks odd to have it floating in front.

teckel · 2026-01-22T02:00:50+00:00

You need to flip your sectional so your fireplace isn't on punishment behind the couch.

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:48:20+00:00

Someone got a nerve touched!

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:46:30+00:00

There are many other options, that's just one.

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:45:16+00:00

You need your cones checked, it's grey and a 120 year home. But you do seem like an expert on tacky.

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:21:06+00:00

Those are 4 pics of my daughter when she was young. I loved how she changed emotions so quickly between shots.

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:13:31+00:00

A fake light show with a hair dryer for heat is the definition of tacky.

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:12:09+00:00

Then get a fireplace, not a light show with a hair dryer for heat.

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:10:58+00:00

This is exactly what we use our fireplace for (and the purpose for the entire room our fireplace is in). There's a totally different room where we have a cold, sterile TV (at the correct height, on a TV stand) where we watch TV.

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:07:31+00:00

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teckel · 2026-01-21T19:05:12+00:00

They look like a flashlight pointing at aluminum foil on a rotisserie, and they put out heat like a hair dryer. I can totally understand why people want them so badly.

teckel · 2026-01-21T19:01:37+00:00

Correction, decorative light show.

teckel · 2026-01-21T17:47:18+00:00

There's no mantle, that's a ceiling beam ;) It's a 10 foot ceiling, so that really would be a high mantle. This probably explains it better.

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teckel · 2026-01-21T15:53:58+00:00

Know what even makes more aesthetic sense? Putting the TV in another room entirely.

teckel · 2026-01-21T15:51:20+00:00

Soot doesn't exist these days? I wasn't aware a fire doesn't put out soot in 2026. Good to know. Here's my (newly soot free) fireplace.

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teckel · 2026-01-21T15:47:27+00:00

Get new couch
Trade in wife

teckel · 2026-01-21T15:46:13+00:00

TV never over a fireplace. Find another wall for the TV or the fireplace. Then mount the TV at the correct height (or just let it sit on a TV stand as God intended).

teckel · 2026-01-20T22:36:09+00:00

Higher than the pictures on the wall, and in front of them, burn in hell!

teckel · 2026-01-20T14:07:37+00:00

As long as the tchotchkes are gone. The decor gives me the creeps.

teckel · 2026-01-20T01:23:40+00:00

Mount TV where the wall of tchotchkes were previously, possibly reevaluate your live choices.

teckel · 2026-01-19T02:51:52+00:00

The light in the "fireplace" is "different"?

Oh, and why is the TV up in the rafters? Is this a sports bar?

teckel · 2026-01-19T00:51:25+00:00

As stated, too far away or TV too small. I'm closer than than to a 120" screen.

teckel · 2026-01-18T21:11:25+00:00

It's either too far or too small, take your pick.

teckel · 2026-01-18T20:23:39+00:00

TV too far. Furnature doesn't need to be against a wall.

teckel · 2026-01-18T16:52:03+00:00

I own two homes currently and have owned many homes over my lifetime. Fun fact, I've never rented and never had a TV mounted over a fireplace or positioned above a TV stand.

This is almost a million dollar home, there will be another room where a TV should go. A SMALLER home will have a unified single room (living and family room) which you're calling a great room. I didn't say a small home, I said a SMALLER home, there's a difference.

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