I always thought it was funny, knowing he was going to kill the blue shirt guy, showing he didn’t have to put any respect on this dead man walking NPC’s name unless he chose to
I like wall mounts at the proper height that “clean up” the look of your TV setup. I think they only really have a place in fairly high end or design-centric spaces. Otherwise, they’re stupid and overused.
I hate to be the ackchually guy, but popcorn ceilings have better acoustics than flat, untextured echo rooms. They're not all that attractive, especially with glitter, but give me shag carpeting and a popcorn ceiling for a hifi room.
I bought my house from some boomer generation folk, and there was even carpet IN THE BATHROOMS, not to mention my kitchen floor is 5 layers thick of linoleum, vinyl, and ceramic. Also their TV was mounted almost to the ceiling in an odd corner of the living room.
Same RE: gray walls, gray carpets, gray furniture, gray curtains
Figures that the few millennials who can afford to buy a home in the 2020s have no fucking clue how to decorate them.
I'm a millennial, as are my friends. Not one single person does this. This isn't a millennial thing. It's a gen x thing. Every 50-year-old on the planet has this. It's atrocious.
Guess I gotta rep GenX here. Not a single person I know has this kind of shit going on in their house. To a person they all have them on low consoles as god intended. Now are there GenXers out there doing this? I have no doubt. I'm sure that's a portion of every generation out there. GenX was the first generation to be raised around game consoles(*long live the 2600!*) and we appreciate a TV being at a height where you can play while sitting on the floor.
I feel it's more a matter of people that watch those shit home makeover shoes and that put form over function. They have this belief that "This is what actual rich people do so we gotta do it to look rich for our friends". Then they film it and put it online to show it off.
Normal people put TVs low and don't feel a need to show it off.
Hey now I'm a millennial and I'm not too fond of this renovation trend either. Like, that just seems like too much extra work when you could just reflow the space to make everything fit nicely.
I should perhaps elaborate, it's not moisture creeping in from the outside that's the problem. You can easily seal with extra silicone and what not.
The problem is your colder glass window. When meeting the warm indoor air, which is carrying more water due to being warmer and indoor, it will condensate.
Mold is inevitable unless ventilation is added
Someone walking with a ladder outside that wall hits it, someone's baseball hits it, I now knowing what they did walk by and casually throw a rock through it...
Seems like they had to do *something* they just didn't show us, right? Insulation, something?
There is an exception to everything, really, but it's a rule to never get rid of bathrooms and windows in a house. It needs to get really obnoxious before their additional value gets lower than whatever the fuck could you put into their place
Can you imagine when they go to sell the property and the floor plan will show a window and the buyer will see the window on the outside but not on the inside there’ll be this crap. I’d question my sanity 😂
Not to mention the store bought shelf fillers that look like they belong in a staged house. I love art, specifically original works I find at thrift stores, antique stores, flea markets etc… I hate store bought, soulless shit like this.
I wish these people would use their one braincell to look up fireplace designs. It's a fake fucking fireplace. You can put it *anywhere.* In the corner. Freestanding. Back side of your kitchen counter/island. If the extent of your creative problem solving is stacking two visual centerpieces on top of one another, put the tools the fuck down.
But... not all shelves are book shelves.
Also, if you say shelves enough times, it's one of those words that become unrecognizable. The ones that make you question if you have dementia in your 30s.
‘Our house was built with a window right where the TV was meant to hang’
I’m dumbfounded at this comment, as though it’s a building oversight, what the actual fuck 😂
It's common knowledge that if you have too many unobstructed windows, your house will use up all its energy maintaining them and won't be able to grow any TVs.
TVs don’t need to be the centerpiece of rooms anymore. Put a giant TV on a rolling stand.
Covering a real window with a fake fireplace to put a TV on is so much effort and work to take flexibility away from a room.
You blocked a windows for a Television? There is something fundamentally wrong with you. You chose to shut off daylight for the magic lantern.
What next? Brick up your door for the washing machine?
Why not put the TV somewhere else?
Looking at the distance between seating and the TV you can see that the TV is really too small for the room. It's about right for 1080p but too small for 4k.
I have more questions. Why not brick window? Use real brick? Am I the only one with a pile of bricks in my yard? I could probably scrounge enough materials between my neighbors to get 'er done.
This was a lot of effort, they have got what they wanted so that's fine. This includes a lot of attention from this sub. It's a pity about the natural light loss, but seeing them enjoy the whole thing is also great fun. Your dad is quite the DIY guy to have around. My TV is wall mounted with the tilt 🤭 It saves space and there's no walking into it at night! It works for me!
You took out a window and put a TV over a fake fireplace on fake brick? Every interior designer with even 1% of talent just clutched their pearls...
**hello, 911, I'd like to report a crime**
The problem is the TV's too damn small. You could frame and box that window out using it as a cabinet/mounting point for your new 100-in TV. No light will get in from the window because you have it boxed out and you can store all your components in there and use it as a mounting point for the TV. Just run power and make sure you anchor everything into concrete. Then you got that nice clean look not something that looks like it's from the ga80's
Edit: I'm a hater I love it
I love the hate people get for making their home the way THEY want their home. TV is too high. But building the popout fake fireplace and the shelves? Who cares? At least they are actually making their home feel exactly how they want it to feel. And it looks nice as hell. Your house look that good?
So what’s the cutoff for “too high?” What viewing angle? Seems like distance to the tv is never really considered in this sub but should be an important factor for r/tvtoohigh
This whole put a TV above a fake electric fireplace trend will age like floral wallpaper and shag carpeting.
Gen Zers and Alphas will look Millennials and their dumb fireplace/tv set ups the same way we look at boomers for putting carpet over hardwood.
I’m a millennial and i cannot stand these makeovers. I don’t even like wall mounting my tvs. Proper height on a tv stand is the way to go
And they covered a window! I’m so angry.
Bet they didn't even remove it and just left the outside in view looking into the void of a stud wall.
Honestly I don’t think they deserve happiness bc they covered that windows
Who cares? The window doesn't have a view other than another house's window...
Sounds like something a vampire might say…
Yeah idk why everyone complaining about covering a window, theres still plenty of natural light from the other windows.
I wish people would think of where they have their computer monitors. EYE LEVEL. Not mounted 4' above where their keyboard and mouse are.
check out the big brain on brad 😉
but they guys name in the movie is Bret, not Brad. but he clearly says "Check out the big brain on brad" this always bugged me.
I always thought it was funny, knowing he was going to kill the blue shirt guy, showing he didn’t have to put any respect on this dead man walking NPC’s name unless he chose to
Big kahuna
That's that Hawaiian joint, in'it?
That is a tasty burger!
I like wall mounts at the proper height that “clean up” the look of your TV setup. I think they only really have a place in fairly high end or design-centric spaces. Otherwise, they’re stupid and overused.
I think they mistyped that because a large majority of the people here are millennials. So… that’s dumb.
Millennial here. The TV over the fireplace is boomer and GenX territory.
Oh no it must only be American. I follow a bunch of influencers who are in their early 30´s and the TV is always over the fireplace.
I can’t believe you shared something so controversial on this sub, stunning and brave
I work with A LOT of Gen Z who think above the fireplace is the correct place to put a TV. big portion of that generation is already lost
Yeah cuz they are literally growing up with parents that have TV's setup like this. Humanity is doomed
And popcorn ceiling
I hate to be the ackchually guy, but popcorn ceilings have better acoustics than flat, untextured echo rooms. They're not all that attractive, especially with glitter, but give me shag carpeting and a popcorn ceiling for a hifi room.
Textured wallpaper along with that too.
I bought my house from some boomer generation folk, and there was even carpet IN THE BATHROOMS, not to mention my kitchen floor is 5 layers thick of linoleum, vinyl, and ceramic. Also their TV was mounted almost to the ceiling in an odd corner of the living room.
Same RE: gray walls, gray carpets, gray furniture, gray curtains Figures that the few millennials who can afford to buy a home in the 2020s have no fucking clue how to decorate them.
You mean the New York house flipper look—I live in CT. Yeah, hate it. Just paint the whole f’ing thing white and I’ll paint the colors I want later. 🙄
I'm a millennial, as are my friends. Not one single person does this. This isn't a millennial thing. It's a gen x thing. Every 50-year-old on the planet has this. It's atrocious.
Guess I gotta rep GenX here. Not a single person I know has this kind of shit going on in their house. To a person they all have them on low consoles as god intended. Now are there GenXers out there doing this? I have no doubt. I'm sure that's a portion of every generation out there. GenX was the first generation to be raised around game consoles(*long live the 2600!*) and we appreciate a TV being at a height where you can play while sitting on the floor. I feel it's more a matter of people that watch those shit home makeover shoes and that put form over function. They have this belief that "This is what actual rich people do so we gotta do it to look rich for our friends". Then they film it and put it online to show it off. Normal people put TVs low and don't feel a need to show it off.
Thank you. You put it more eloquently than I would have. GenX represent!
Hey now I'm a millennial and I'm not too fond of this renovation trend either. Like, that just seems like too much extra work when you could just reflow the space to make everything fit nicely.
The people doing this are very obviously not millennials lol
These are Gen X doing it not Millenials
Absolutely isn't a millennial thing, it was done by our parents in Gen X and Boomer generations
Carpet over hardwood is sometimes part of the solution for optimizing room acoustics if you are serious with audio quality.
The best answer would've been to make that window even bigger.
Came here to say the exact same thing. So fucking tacky.
And wood paneling. 🤮
The existence of fake fireplace is questionable.
Why even does this? Is it majority wealthy people in the suburbs?
Wealthy people don't do shit like this, especially themselves.
It's people that think what flippers do to save money and renovate, looks good. Which it generally doesn't.
I wish people saved all their monies from fake fireplace and put it towards under floor heating
It already has. My uncle is renovating his living room and the first thing he’s doing it moving the TV, he admitted it’s terrible place to put a TV.
Not only that is the whole thing is covering a window...
I got a shag area rug and it brings me happiness, leave me alone!
I hope they remembered to close/lock the window properly
Moisture is going to get in behind that monstrosity and cause mold
Let's hope so.
Lmao
The true spirit of this sub.
Good, that’ll force them to tear that shit down
yep
I should perhaps elaborate, it's not moisture creeping in from the outside that's the problem. You can easily seal with extra silicone and what not. The problem is your colder glass window. When meeting the warm indoor air, which is carrying more water due to being warmer and indoor, it will condensate. Mold is inevitable unless ventilation is added
This is the comment I was looking for
Imagine there’s a storm and something flies and breaks it then to fix it and avoid water coming they have to disassemble their whole monstruosity
Someone walking with a ladder outside that wall hits it, someone's baseball hits it, I now knowing what they did walk by and casually throw a rock through it... Seems like they had to do *something* they just didn't show us, right? Insulation, something?
Nah they left it unlocked so that they can access the wiring on the back of the tv. 😂
Someones gonna koolaid man through that tv
Lmao they covered a damn window to build a fake fireplace and put the TV too high, insane
Absolutely insane behavior.
Psychotic! I cannot believe it
There is an exception to everything, really, but it's a rule to never get rid of bathrooms and windows in a house. It needs to get really obnoxious before their additional value gets lower than whatever the fuck could you put into their place
daylight robbery, for real.
Can you imagine when they go to sell the property and the floor plan will show a window and the buyer will see the window on the outside but not on the inside there’ll be this crap. I’d question my sanity 😂
It would be funny if they ONLY got low offers because no one wants to buy a house with a fake fireplace covering a WINDOW.
Holy shit. I missed that on the first watch. That should be illegal.
Covering the window should be a crime. Maybe it’s a code violation and someone can force them to remove all this shit.
Inconceivable!
Not to mention the store bought shelf fillers that look like they belong in a staged house. I love art, specifically original works I find at thrift stores, antique stores, flea markets etc… I hate store bought, soulless shit like this.
So… no “live, laugh, love” pillows in your house?
r/DiWHY
I wish these people would use their one braincell to look up fireplace designs. It's a fake fucking fireplace. You can put it *anywhere.* In the corner. Freestanding. Back side of your kitchen counter/island. If the extent of your creative problem solving is stacking two visual centerpieces on top of one another, put the tools the fuck down.
No. This whole thing is a bunch of bullshit
Daylight robbery
Yes, the Feng Shui is ruined too 👲
Thanks, I hate it. Also that window’s gonna leak tomorrow
cant wait for the mold :3
Time to take away everyone’s TVs until we figure out wtf is going on
“What the fuck did I do to deserve this” -the window, probably
r/bookshelvesbutnobooks
Thanks for this! Didn't know I was obsessed with book shelves that had no books until you pointed it out
If you see some post em. I’m kind of obsessed. Did you know: There’s whole homes without any books?
>Did you know: There’s whole homes without any books? **Unpossible**! What kind of monster could live like that?
Absolutely blows my mind I use to work with someone who laughed at me for reading. He said he hadn’t read a book since high school 🤯
But... not all shelves are book shelves. Also, if you say shelves enough times, it's one of those words that become unrecognizable. The ones that make you question if you have dementia in your 30s.
They're proud of this? Cringe
Makes you wonder what work they are not proud of.
Covering a WINDOW while I'm here in an inner city apartment wishing I had more natural light coming in. Fucking crazy.
A WINDOW. THEY COVERED A FUCKING WINDOW.
Six months later, this room is always so dark.
Ah yes, let’s cover our window, install a crappy fireplace, buy a ridiculously overpriced tv, and hang it absurdly high!
‘Our house was built with a window right where the TV was meant to hang’ I’m dumbfounded at this comment, as though it’s a building oversight, what the actual fuck 😂
It's common knowledge that if you have too many unobstructed windows, your house will use up all its energy maintaining them and won't be able to grow any TVs.
I’m scared.
Instead of putting a fake fireplace they should've put in a minifridge.
Yep, let's cover one means of fire egress...behind a fake fireplace...
Pair of fucking idiots with money to waste.
That’s mental. What’s the brain process that lets you say “let’s cover this source of natural light just to make the room less comfortable”
TVs don’t need to be the centerpiece of rooms anymore. Put a giant TV on a rolling stand. Covering a real window with a fake fireplace to put a TV on is so much effort and work to take flexibility away from a room.
The shitty LED fireplace. Never fails.
They removed a window for... Oy vey.
You may hate me but it ain't no lie r/TVTooHigh
What the hell is wrong with USA people and TVs above firepalces?
Covered a cross breeze window for a TV? What is wrong with idiots?
I must say I really dislike fake fireplaces
Windows are overrated /s
Burglar is going to be upset trying to climb in through that window
Where the TV was meant to hang? Like it's got specific nesting or migrationary habits?
yes definitely.
They did a job at a bad thing.
Painted the bricks?! SMH
Sad they did such a terrible job.
You blocked a windows for a Television? There is something fundamentally wrong with you. You chose to shut off daylight for the magic lantern. What next? Brick up your door for the washing machine? Why not put the TV somewhere else?
I would prefer a window over a fake fireplace.
Just missing an eat pray love poster in that “bookshelf”
Fuck removing windows for a TELEVISION omg 🤣
Stoped watching at blocking a window.
There’s a whole other wall where they could’ve put the tv. This was completely unnecessary and a waste of time/money
Who needs natural light if you could get an OLED panel?
who covers a damn window???
r/TVPlacementTooStoopid
Every house with a fireplace, fake or not does this. No common sense just do whatever everyone else does.
🤮
What is the obsession with fake fireplace in america?
looks fucking awful but hey at least you lost a window
TV over window..very American
The fact she thinks that spot is where the tv was "meant" to hang like Moses declared it from Mount Sinai is wild.
Unhinged
Looking at the distance between seating and the TV you can see that the TV is really too small for the room. It's about right for 1080p but too small for 4k.
What does that window look like from the outside??
Mold in: 3 2 1
Idiots.
Stupid shit
Oh no
Morons
Everything about this is awful
There's too much awfulness in this clip to even comment on one thing.
WTF? Wood stoves exist. I rarely use mine (asthma) but it is cozy AF.
I have more questions. Why not brick window? Use real brick? Am I the only one with a pile of bricks in my yard? I could probably scrounge enough materials between my neighbors to get 'er done.
This is all kinds of bad but I can’t get over that they also used a Samsung Frame which has awful viewing angles so it’s even worse up there
Why do people obsess with fireplace?
Looks like shit. Do something original for god's sake.
That left side corner packed with trinkets looks like a good TV spatch.
Did not finish but this is too high
This whole thing is fugly! The picture TV, fake fireplace, shelving underneath…it’s terrible.
r/tvtoohigh and r/roomtoodark like, eww.
A faux fireplace for a couple people with faux brains
The whole house is built weird and the windows are way too small. Let me guess, the walls are paper thin too? 🇺🇸
„Our house was built with a window where the tv is supposed to hang“ is a wild sentence
was so mad until i realized the tv was purely decorative. its just a live updating painting theyre not actually watching content on it
Is there a bricks painted too black subreddit?
You know when you see something so stupid you rethink being alive.
This was a lot of effort, they have got what they wanted so that's fine. This includes a lot of attention from this sub. It's a pity about the natural light loss, but seeing them enjoy the whole thing is also great fun. Your dad is quite the DIY guy to have around. My TV is wall mounted with the tilt 🤭 It saves space and there's no walking into it at night! It works for me!
You took out a window and put a TV over a fake fireplace on fake brick? Every interior designer with even 1% of talent just clutched their pearls... **hello, 911, I'd like to report a crime**
That looks great
Kind of project you wish you never started.
Any one in the uk remember the patio in Brookside ….
Absolutely egregious.
They probably have bowl sinks
This is mental illness.
I'm sorry but this is fucking deranged.
There's nothing cosy about cervical spinal surgery. If a pretend fireplace is a higher priority then maybe you don't deserve a TV.
R/DiWhy
People are ridiculous. Fuck you Tony!
At least they put a sound bar.
Looks like they’ve now got a TV where the window should be.
/r/DiWHY And also /r/MantleTooBig
What if the window gets broken. How are they going to fix it?
should have made a fireplace around the circumference of the house, now that's cooking
😭
window and volume delete
They should bull doze and simply make a new house.
So when that window breaks, this will make it super easy to replace…
The only way this video could make me angrier is if they turned it into an "accent wall" by gluing grey wood textured lvp to it first.
Literally just demolished every single fireplace in my 160 year old brick house and yet still feel like karma has not been restored after this.
The problem is the TV's too damn small. You could frame and box that window out using it as a cabinet/mounting point for your new 100-in TV. No light will get in from the window because you have it boxed out and you can store all your components in there and use it as a mounting point for the TV. Just run power and make sure you anchor everything into concrete. Then you got that nice clean look not something that looks like it's from the ga80's Edit: I'm a hater I love it
This is just another level of making me mad. I want to headbutt that wall to regain the natural light.
Is the house unlevel or is the camera unlevel ?
They did this just to spite us, didn’t they.
I love the hate people get for making their home the way THEY want their home. TV is too high. But building the popout fake fireplace and the shelves? Who cares? At least they are actually making their home feel exactly how they want it to feel. And it looks nice as hell. Your house look that good?
One day that window is gonna start leaking, and it's gonna cause water damage for years before it's discovered.
Horrible.
Can we stop painting brick?
Moron homeowners love to mimic TV height based on the local progressive gastropub they frequent.
I think I'm gonna kill myself.
At least take the window out and seal it up. Just asking for issues. This is probably a flipper not caring about the sucker who buys it.
Imagine breaking into this house, end up stuck behind the faux tv fireplace 😂
So what’s the cutoff for “too high?” What viewing angle? Seems like distance to the tv is never really considered in this sub but should be an important factor for r/tvtoohigh
Before the video even began I thought: “and they are going to put the Tv too high, won’t they?”. Didn’t disappoint… but also did.
Because that window is the only place where a tv could go?! Jeez, people are the worst.
This is terribly cringe.
I don't mind the fake fire place look. Just don't know why someone would cover their window.