The Hard Rock TV wall mount

During a stay at the Hard Rock hotel in Las Vegas, I noticed that the TVs in the rooms were mounted to fake "walls" so that that cables and the TV bracket could be hidden. The fake walls were then mounted to the real walls and covered to make them a feature.

As I'd just bought a big flatscreen TV and was daunted by drilling massive holes in my rented house, I thought I'd have a crack at making one. 

Step 1 Building the frame

As I had a fireplace and a picture rail in the room, I decided that I would fit the frame between the two. This would also mean that as long as the frame was secured to the real wall to stop it from moving, all of the weight of the TV would be transferred down on to the solid fireplace.

The frame was made from Homebase's pre-plained Spruce to save on some of the elbow-work. Each piece was but-jointed to the next and screwed in place.