Motorised TV lifters

My lovely other half has always hated having the 40″ telly on display in the front room, I can kind of see her point even though 40″ is apparently matchbox sized these days. Anyway, as part of a shuffling things around project I thought I might mount the telly on a motorised lifter and build in a cabinet around it to house the telly box, wifi router etc. You can spend massive amounts of money, as ever, but I had my eye on this sort of thing;

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ECO-WORTHY-Automatic-Motorised-Television-Bracket/dp/B01B47NVYO

Anyone used them or similar? Will it drive us mad/crush the kid’s heads/set the house on fire? Or earn me massive brownie points?

Don’t for get to budget for one of these

If you are going down the TV cabinet route. `:-)

Won’t you then have a big cabinet as well as a TV sticking out the top in the room? 🙂

Yeah, yeah. The intention is for it to look like a built in sideboard so that when not in use you won’t know it houses a telly or any related gubbins. Then we can pretend to be some of those splendidly middle class people who don’t have a telly and when the people we want to impress have left it’s telly up, Love Island on and crack open the Desperados and prosecco!

The telly already sits on top of a 70s wooden telly cabinet with the guts ripped out and the bluray player and all that crap housed inside so not much difference. Still got the screen surround with 4 channel buttons; BBC 1&2 and ITV plus one for future proofing! I find the juxtaposition with the flat screen on top tres amusant, Rodney. Mange tout indeed.

What about if it was mounted hidden inside a log burner, would that be acceptable?

Bluray player!! You want tweeters with that Grandad! 🙂

Don’t forget to leave space for this…

https://www.samsung.com/uk/tvs/the-frame/highlights/

What about if it was mounted hidden inside a log burner, would that be acceptable?

Bluray player!! You want tweeters with that Grandad!

This thread is full of lol

Wall mount it and then put a tapestry over the top of it.

That Samsung art thing looks interesting but not cheap. suppose when you offset it against the cost of a cheaper telly, the lifter, the cabinet, the hassle…
Other issue is that the telly sits in the recess to the side of a chimney breast so wall mounting would leave it a bit far back. If you think my wife will permit mounting it on the the fireplace you’re one million percent wrong and I agree with her, can’t stand it when TVs are put there either, completely dominates the room

Tweeters! I’m not that up to date. Bluray player is the most modern thing we’ve got. The telly is 10 years old and not Smart in any sense, massive old Denon amp, Dolby 5:1 surround, it’s like 2003 round ours! Not even got Netflix but have got an Xbox360 although the boy is after one of those new fangled PS4s for his birthday. Hmmmm.
Can’t say I’m bothered though, reading reviews Smart TVs just sound like another pain in the arse a lot of the time.

Wall mount it and then put a tapestry over the top of it.

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My wife had a cabinet built for a client of hers to accommodate a TV on a remote lift plinth. Didn’t last long IIRC but that was more due to the location and bedroom antics than the remote lift/hide mechanism.

I’ll ask her what it was she used.

Great thread! I remember back in the late 60’s when my parents bought their first telly, it was housed in a, possibly walnut, cabinet with doors that were kept firmly closed when not in use. Can guarantee that I’ve the smallest telly on here and feel those large ones are hideous. Not that I’m claiming to have good taste obviously, well apart from my former bikes!

Do remember some of my aunties having knitted loo roll covers, fortunately my mother didn’t! Actually I remember a drinks cabinet, think that was walnut too. Happy days!

Knitted loo roll covers, drinks cabinet, TV in veneered cabinet, Betamax – we had it all! 🙂

I used one but in the opposite direction. I built it into the loft so it came through the ceiling. I build a framework and cut and reinforced the surrounding ceiling joists. We have full length sliding wardrobes with nowhere to mount a big enough tv. The lift kit was fairly hefty to support a 55″ tv and i had to get a specific one that worked in both directions. On the ceiling side i made a thin angle profile for both the ceiling cutout and the panel on the bottom of the tv framework so when the tv is hidden away all you see is a really thin gap. It works by remote control and has been no problem since i fitted it.

Turned our old walnut cabinet into a gin store.

Its that full I have had to put the smaller bottles in the pull out drawer underneath

A TV in the bedroom? Oh no! No, no, no. That would never do. Tut.

Good work Tracey! Mmmmm, gin.

Have you considered fashioning an ornate system of ropes and wooden pulleys? You could even reduce the effort and up the class by harnessing the power of a water feature to make it counterbalanced. Like a funicular.

I like the cut of your jib young man. I’m going to do it, with a steam punk vibe.

Will it drive us mad/crush the kid’s heads/set the house on fire?

First answer to a question on that Amazon link…”it crushed my tool box”

The intention is for it to look like a built in sideboard

Wouldn’t a sideboard with an emtpy top surface look weird? Or are you going for Thunderbirds style glued down ornaments and picture frames that flip up with the lid?

One alternative is a massive, deep framed painting hinged at the side over the top of it. Or a roller blind mounted above with a world map or pattern than can drop over the front like in those old movies.

I was in Harrods the other day (get me!), and they had a frame that would go over your flat TV and it included a rollerblind type of device that could scroll round and cover the TV with a picture of your choice.

Actually looked really good – can’t remember the price, but it was rather a lot however

I just hide mine in plain by letting it get really dusty and drawing spurting cocks in the dust.

Have you considered fashioning an ornate system of ropes and wooden pulleys? You could even reduce the effort and up the class by harnessing the power of a water feature to make it counterbalanced. Like a funicular.

In the bedroom? might be some confusion there!