Question : Apartment Decor with a Video Projector?
I live in a rental apartment. My walls are white, my furniture & accessories are different elements of brown, beige, chocolate, gray, black, leather, steel and glass. My BF is a big home theater nut, and we originally had a small video projector in silver, which was propped up on a tri-pod behind our sectional sofa. A projector screen pulled up to the ceiling from the floor. However, my BF recently bought a new video projector (he said the latest one is better, blah blah blah.) But the new one is also bigger (about 2 feet long), is heavier, and comes in black only. Since it’s too big for the tri-pod, he mounted it on a black shelf on our white wall, and the thick black cord dangles down from it. It looks hideous. Everytime I walk into the room, the big black box that hangs from the middle of the wall stares back at me. Does anyone have suggestions on where else I can install the projector? Or, if the middle of the wall is the best spot for it, what can I do to minimize the look?
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Best answer:

Answer by casey v
The best place for a video projector is definitely the ceiling. Unfortunately, you would have the same problem with the cord unless you could convince the landlord to install a ceiling outlet.

My suggestion would be to mount wall shelves on both sides of the projector. Or you could place two tall, skinny floor standing shelves on either side and one below. You could then run the cord along the side of the shelf where it meets the wall and fasten it there with small amounts of double sided tape.

Doing this will add other elements with positive (sticking out) space to minimize the effect of the bulky projector.

A cheaper alternative would be to hang framed pictures on both sides of the projector. This would also help to hide the big black box visually but it wouldn’t help as much spacially.