You know it happens: You arrive with your designer-dressed child, Stokke stroller and well-packed Skip*Hop at a playdate, feeling happy you have on a little vintage number that's, for the moment at least, only slightly spotted with snot and organic whole milk, walk through the door and see the last bastion of coveted family home items hanging on your neighbor's wall. A flat-screen TV, taunting you with its Elmo peering over the fireplace in a child-friendly post-modern art mockery of the clunky box of television you bought at Sears only moments before the plasma revolution. Not to worry! Now there's no need to jones for the Jones' TV any longer.
Why not take the weekend and DIY up your family room? By carving out only a moderate-sized square from your scribbled-on drywall, you can create a sneaky little home for your standard TV and give the appearance that you're living it up like everyone else.
OK, OK...you got me. There is absolutely no way in home decorating hell I could recommend this project to anyone. Especially the Stokke sisters. The thing that slays me about this is that it is an idea I can totally see my husband scheming. That said, if anyone does create a faux flat screen in their home, please send Strollerderby the pictures so we can laugh, love and give you major props for "plasma" pimping in the best competi-parent illusion I think I've ever seen.
[photo credit: DIY Life, photoshop credit: Dan Chilton]
