Media Walls Explained

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.

Here’s some things to think about when planning your Media Wall

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?

It’s very on trend to complete the look by building in an inset electric fire into your media wall. Featuring captivating flame visuals with multiple flame effects to choose from including Amber & Yellow, Amber with Yellow accent and Yellow with Amber accent and offering a choice of fuel effects, electric fires provide a stunning display which can be enjoyed with or without the heat. That isn’t to say gas fires aren’t doable, whether you have a flue or not we can easily look into getting a gas fire up and running in your room.

Want to incorporate a gas fire in your media wall?

Installing a gas fire into your media wall is not a problem provided we can adhere to all safety regulations and specifications from the gas fire’s instruction manual. This includes things such as building the media wall in the correct material and positioning appliances to the correct tolerances. There is, naturally, the need to ensure the gas fire is flued out the room properly. We’ve incorporated loads of gas fires into media walls before, to find out if you we can do the same for you Contact Us and we can arrange a no obligation survey/consultation.