My latest catch phrase is "be marvelous."  Isn't that grand?  I picked that up from The Marvelous Wonderettes, an off-Broadway show.  It wasn't the greatest show, so don't take that as a recommendation, but I love the sentiment.  We could all use a little more marvelous in our lives! 

Anyway, back to design ...  and one of the most marvelous things I have seen in a long time!  Kelly Geisen is an interior designer out of NYC, and this project (in her own home) was featured on Apartment Therapy.  What a creative way to disguise a television!  The enormous flat panel televisions that dominate so many living rooms are a pet peeve of many a decorator (including myself).  But let's be practical -- what else are you going to do with it?   I resisted a television in my living room until about one month after my twin boys were born ... and I had spent the previous 672 hours comatose in our living room with no entertainment except crying babies.  Yikes!  Clearly my husband realized that I was at a weak moment, so he seized the opportunity and proposed a television on the wall ... and I caved.  I'll admit that I enjoy it there (notwithstanding the sleep-deprived "The Real Housewives of Orange County" marathons that I "enjoyed").  Especially with the boys, it is just convenient to have a television there.  Before we installed the television, I had all sorts of grandiose ideas about having the television recessed into the wall with a piece of art over it and/or a cabinet that the television could raise up out of.  Unfortunately, at the particular time, there weren't any reasonably priced products of that ilk ... and the idea (and expense) of cutting into our walls and/or decimating our Barbara Barry by Baker cabinet to have a television lift installed didn't seem great either.  So on the wall it went.  And we live with it there to this day.  

Perhaps that's why I find Kelly's idea so fantastic!   Check out the "fireplace" in her living room ...     

This is her bedroom "fireplace." 




Unfortunately, this won't work for me either -- I don't think I'll convince my family to give up the gas logs in our fireplace -- but a gal can dream!  Until then, here's what I have ...