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HOW TO PLACE YOUR TV IN THE KITCHEN

A television in the kitchen lets you follow your favorite program while cooking, or eat a meal while watching a good movie.
There are different ways to place a TV in a kitchen; here are some important guidelines for positioning it in the best way.

Ideas for placing it
In many kitchen designs today there are innovative cabinets that you can use for housing a television.
These designs, coordinated with the rest of the kitchen are perfect for open space kitchen-living rooms or if you have a very large room.
In the photo on the right, open shelves provide an ample central space for a TV, or a stereo or a DVD player for that matter.

The glass door with a push-pull opening mechanism protects the instruments when not being used.
Another idea for those who don't want a free standing television set is offered by Rex Electrolux (photo, left) which has introduced a built-in LCD TV into it's product range. Equipped with a stainless steel frame it effectively resolves problems of space and stylistic coordination with other appliances.

Some guidelines
Whatever type of television you may have, you will have to avoid bright reflections: don't place the TV in front of a window, especially if the window faces south and is brightly illuminated by the sun or other sources of artificial light.
A lamp beside or above the television is recommended if you think you'll be watching your favorite shows in the dark sometimes, like after dinner. A diffuse light will help save your eyes from fatigue.
If you have a plasma or LCD television you can and should remember some things that you could ignore with traditional televisions.
The main advantage is that these kinds of TVs can be hung on the wall in any part of the kitchen.
And yet LCD TV screens can be seen well only from a narrow range of positions in front of the screen, so to see a perfect quality image, viewers must sit as much as possible directly in front of the screen. In the above example the television is mounted perpendicular to the island so that whoever sits at the table can enjoy a straight ahead view.

The kitchens in the photos are: Crystal (photo 1) and Scenery (photo 3), both by Scavolini.

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