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Rant: PSA to builders, housewives, and general complaint

In our search for a new house, I’m seeing some disturbing and annoying trends, mainly, living rooms where the ONLY place to put a TV is way high above a fireplace. This leaves zero flexibility for tv placement, additional audio components etc. Most don’t even have plugs. I'm also in Texas and there's ZERO need for a fireplace.

Not to mention all the "open concepts" we’re seeing where the living room is strangely shaped and the kitchen is basically in the room where you hear all the kitchen noise and you’re 100% accessible to your spouse and their conversation (ramblings).

This isn’t a problem if you have $2m to spend but for most of us, we’re limited in where we can set up our toys and this does not help.

Thank you for listening.

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wspohn
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I live in an older house that thankfully has walls and doors - large open spaces would drive me crazy trying to 'tune' a system.

I have a 65" wall mounted TV above the fireplace and like it - no issue at all.  I suppose that it could be a problem if the mantel was unusually high.

I also have a similar TV wall mounted above my equipment rack in another room, and again, no problem viewing it.

Maybe get a recliner so you don't have to stretch your neck for viewing....?

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