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Help me think through TV locations
Everyone is telling me that I'm crazy so I'm intersted in what you all think. I have been struggling for awhile about this and tried to find if I've asked D&R about this before but couldn't find anything. Apologies if I did already.
In the house we are building there are several living spaces. On the first floor, both the sunroom and great room are completely open to the family room. There is also a den/library (eventually will be a playroom). Upstairs we have a large loft. Eventually the basement will be finished and will also have a living area.
We aren't putting a TV in the great room. I think the room is too large for TV watching (it's 20x25), and I like the idea of having two couches that face each other with some chairs in the room to facilitate conversation instead of a big entertainment center and huge TV that are 20 feet away from a couch or sectional. We have a sectional now and I hate how when we entertain it's not conversation friendly. I also think that since the sunroom is open to the kitchen as well, it's almost like a "hearth" room itself and we'll spend most of our time in there when we want to watch TV. It's the perfect size for a nice sectional and a regular TV. The loft will have a larger TV and will serve as the "movie area" for now until the basement is finished.
So what says D&R?
Re: Help me think through TV locations
Why not do separate areas in the great room? Your couch doesn't have to be pushed all the way against the wall for TV viewing. You can do the conversation area and still have the TV there. Separate little conversational areas can look really nice.
As putting it in the sun room - how much sun are we talking about? And what kind of TV? If you have a plasma, you'll never be able to watch it in there when the sun's out unless you put up curtains - the picture wouldn't be viewable.
I should consider some other layouts. There is only one wall for a TV, and I think if we had a couch in front of the TV it would block the fireplace (the fireplace is on the center of the wall adjacent to the TV wall. The other option would be to mount the TV above the fireplace but I'm trying to avoid that if at all possible. There may be something I haven't considered though. Those are the only two walls in the great room, though. I like the idea of having separate areas a lot though (maybe I'll just do separate conversation areas?).
The sun room is primarily Eastern exposure, although it does have windows that face north and south too. We generally buy LCD
I don't think so. It's a "sunroom" because it has windows on 3 sides, but it's fully open to the kitchen. Same flooring and it's not structurally different than the house.