If you’ve got a pretty small flat like mine, you need to utilize every bit of space. Wall shelves and combination furniture with storage is the key to not feeling claustrophobic. That and maybe mirrors. I hear those are good feng shui, but your mates might think you’ve become quite vain.
If you are looking at new TVs, you probably won’t be able to fit that massively glorious 42 inch unless you want to sacrifice the rest of your living room furniture; which you might, depending on your priorities. Instead, I would recommend looking at a quality 24 inch LCD by Sony or even the Bush.
There are advantages and disadvantages to owning a smaller TV. The number one advantage, of course, is your space economization. A smaller TV also means a smaller price, but you need to watch out with the ultra cheap TV’s LCD because a cheaper LCD might mean blurrier moving images. If you’re not a big sports or action fan this might not be a big drawback for you. A great feature of LCD is the reduction of glare and sharper images, so you might find that a larger TV is wholly unnecessary. Really, you can just hook up a quality sound system to your smaller TV and that can be all you need to enhance your home cinema center.
A good way to combat claustrophobic furniture arrangement is to combine your home entertainment system with a TV combi DVD 2 in 1 system. Try Sony’s superb 22-inch Bravia KDL-22BX20D or the Bush 24-inch with full 1080p HD and worry not about finding space for that DVD player you own.
