Stop me if this sounds familiar. You’ve spent ages designing the perfect aesthetic for your living room, complete with artwork, furniture, accessories, and a cohesive color palette. Then you realize your giant TV screen (essential for Netflix and chill, but not exactly attractive) ruins the whole vibe. Take a deep breath and don’t panic, because we’re about to show you how to hide a TV.
While we all want on in our living space, a large television screen is not exactly the focal point interior designers would approve of. A piece of art, custom cabinetry, gorgeous woodworking, or a beautiful antique piece of furniture are much better taking center stage. In order to let your favorite design element shine, it can help to hide or disguise your large TV. These DIY TV hiding projects will help you keep your living room aesthetic without taking away your technology, because it’s 2026 and we CAN have it all!
How to Disguise a TV as Artwork
Let’s face it, a wall-mounted TV isn’t exactly the gorgeous local artwork you might want to display in your home. But you can cover it up thanks to these DIY projects below.
DIY Wall-Mounted TV Cover
Love everything about this. Love the coastal vibes, love the distressed finish, and love how you would never even know there was a TV behind the artwork. Get all the details on this masterpiece over at Sunnyside Home.
How to Disguise a TV in Just One Day!
If you’re looking to keep things simple and straightforward, this one from Noting Grace genuinely only takes a day. Plus, it’s stunning and suits their space perfectly! This is great option if you feel your space could use a gallery wall!
How to Disguise a TV With a DIY Sliding Cover
Shannon over at Living With Lady has this brilliant DIY guide for a TV cover that slides across in front of your wall-mounted TV. This simple project utilizes artwork of your choice and heavy duty drawer slides. You can put any type of art on the sliding cover, so it’s an easy tutorial to adapt to your style/vibe/space.
TV Cover Artwork Frame
Check out this stylish DIY TV cover using art from ‘Lia Griffith‘. There is a great step by step photo tutorial, and the artwork can be switched out each season.
Playroom Artwork TV Cover
From ‘Kristen Duke Photography‘, love this colorful playroom gallery wall! But what? The painting isn’t just art? Could it be… a hidden tv?
How to Hide a TV on the Wall
Keep your walls in line with your home’s decor without compromising on your TV’s location. If you’ve got a wall mounted TV and want to keep it that way without actually seeing it all the time, these are for you!
DIY Wall Mounted TV Cabinet
‘This Old House‘, used to have this great tutorial for a wall mounted TV Cabinet. While the tutorial is no longer published, we’re hoping the picture may help you get an idea of how to build a similar solution! It looks pretty straightforward – a sturdy wall hung frame with bi-fold doors to cover the TV.
Hide a TV with Sliding Barn Doors
This reclaimed wood sliding door is the perfect way to hide your TV! From ‘Cote de Texas’, this clever idea is no longer published with a tutorial, but the concept is so similar to others in the post that we wanted to keep it just to include another stylish example.
Sliding Barn Door TV cover
We LOVE this DIY sliding barn door TV cover from ‘Liz Marie‘. Beautiful solution to how to hide a TV – and the shorter panels mean you can have a console underneath still!
Canvas Covered TV Cover Box
This DIY wall mounted TV cabinet is hidden with the cutest photo canvases ever. This project was also cheap! The blog that originally posted this ideas seems to have been taken down, but we love the concept and wanted to keep it for the inspiration.
Hide a TV with Full Length Barn Doors
‘Four Generations, One Roof‘ shares their tutorial on how to make their DIY sliding barn doors. This is a perfect way to make a flat screen TV cover! Great instructions and photos.
How to Hide a TV Above a Fireplace
Got a fireplace with a TV above it? Let your fireplace be the focal point of your living space by covering up that TV! You get to keep the cozy vibes and your favorite shows with these easy DIY TV hiding projects.
Integrate a Built-in TV Cabinet with Your Mantle
We’re impressed with this DIY built in fireplace surround with a nook to hide the TV, by ‘Remodelaholic‘. There are so many people with just a boring TV above a plain fireplace… why not make it amazing? This has a complete tutorial, including the shelving.
Curtain Rod over a Fireplace
Those curtain rod and barn door ideas would work great over a fireplace too! This farmhouse-style TV cover is stunning, and the curtain rod design means it’s so quick and easy to access your TV when you need it. Barn doors would make this such a cute farmhouse inspired project. Find the step-by-step guide over at Sarah Joy.
Simple Leaning TV Cover Solution
Want something really simple? Cover a TV with a chalkboard with this idea from ‘Domestically Blissful‘. Cute, right? Whether you are covering a built in niche like she is, or just leaning it in front of a mounted television, it is a simple solution to hide a TV. This is a great option when you have a mantle to prop artwork up on.
How to Hide a TV With a Cabinet
When in doubt, your TV can be hidden in a cabinet! As you’ll see below, there are a few different ways to do this, but they all follow the same basic principle. Hidden tv cabinets are a great way to keep a TV out of sight when you don’t need it, and easily accessible when you do!
DIY Hidden TV Coffee Table
‘Just Laine‘ has an ingenious solution for when you don’t really want a TV, but you do… They installed a small TV in their amazing red coffee table!
Hidden Lift TV Cabinet
Want to go ultra tech? Then visit ‘Popular Mechanics‘ for a video tutorial on how to build a hidden lift TV cabinet. This is the ultimate way to hide a TV!
Portable DIY TV Storage Cabinet With Lift
If you’re looking for a way to move your TV around, or if you sometimes take your TV outside for parties or sporting events, this DIY custom cabinet on wheels from One Handy Momma is just what you need!
How to Disguise a TV Cabinet
This is a great design that uses a simple TV cabinet as a disguise. The TV slides into the back of the cabinet, which has a lift inside it that brings your TV out when you need it. The open shelving in the front makes it look like it’s got nothing to hide! Learn to make this at home with an amazing tutorial from Handmade Weekly.
DIY TV Lift Cabinet
You can buy these fancy TV lift cabinets for thousands of dollars, but the amazing geniuses over at The Brain and the Brawn can show you how to make one for a fraction of that price. Your TV pops up when you need it, and slides away when you don’t!
Built-in Wall Paneling TV Cabinet
Learn how to hide your TV with wall paneling from Brian Patrick Flynn of ‘HGTV‘. If you aren’t aware, Brian has been responsible for designing several of the HGTV Dream Homes. This tutorial has lots of thumbnail photos that you need to click on as you pass through each step.
Hide Your TV in a Media Console
Build the Grandy sliding door tv console from ‘Ana White‘, and customize it to fit your TV and equipment. Lots of her readers have built this console, and it has photos and plans.
Keep Your TV Tucked Away With Our DIY TV Hiding Projects!
Your TV doesn’t have to dominate your living room! Hopefully you’ve found some inspo in the projects above, and can make a cover or cabinet that hides your TV and gives you more control over your room’s aesthetic. Good luck!
If you’re ok with keeping your tv visible and just dressing it up a bit, check out our DIY custom TV frames to give it a little makeover. You may also want to check out our post on how to hide indoor eyesores. If there’s anything we can all agree on, it’s that there’s plenty of creative ways to solve home design challenges, and it’s always a bit more fun taking the DIY route. How did you hide your TV? Let us know in the comments!
Thanks for sharing our barn doors 😉
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Thank you Jessica!
Thank you for the beautiful ideas! Looking forward to following you on Pinterest!
Some fabulous ideas that I would have never thought of on my own. Love the barn doors, although I love more than just those. Pinned and included in my roundup.
The last one is the only one I don’t like at all. The TV is positioned horribly low. If you’re doing this, you obviously don’t want the TV to be your centerpiece, but when you use it, you’d want to be comfortable. It would take a rather large TV, I think, to make it comfortable to watch at that height. The problem then is it would take an ridiculously large fireplace surround to accommodate it.
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Definitely know what you are saying. Was a clever idea. We just had to include it. Would have to be the right situation to work well that’s for sure!
I was thinking the same thing- love the idea but it really is too low. Maybe if you had a big, high hearth? Or if it was going to be the kids’ video game TV- they sit on the floor a lot and play anyway!
Does no one but me remember the years of console televisions? They were originally designed to set on the floor, with picture tubes just a few inches higher. I think back then the TV was the focal point of a room. Now we’re trying to hide them. How long until the console idea comes back? ;0)
These are all so clever, but my absolute FAVE is definitely the 1st picture in your post… the large sliding barn doors. What can you tell me about it? I’m assuming it would be done similarly to the small version with the clock above the mantel. Thank you : )
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Yep – Unfortunately we couldn’t find a tutorial for that one. Looks like they are using some pretty nice slider hardware.