10 Creative Ways to Mount a Flat-Panel TV
By Steve Crowe
Installation creativity is on display in our third annual Mount This! Contest.

Sometimes hanging a flat-panel TV can be a challenge. And that's part of the fun being a CE pro or a DIYer, like trying to conceal a video wall in the ceiling and have it drop down at the press of a button.

We were looking for interesting/challenging flat-panel mounting jobs in the third annual Mount This! contest. And our readers didn't disappoint.



The installation can be a challenge due to the environment, as is the case in the winning installation submitted by Angel Alvidrez of Digital Media Solutions who was tasked with mounting a 55-inch TV to the stone work surrounding the client's lavish in-ground pool.

Mandle Rousseau, owner of Control FREQ, was the second-place finisher for his work maintaining the panoramic views of the Rocky Mountains inside a Denver loft. They mounted a motorized lift to the ceiling that contained a Samsung LCD TV, blending the system into the industrial design of the space.

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