That screen needs a thick traditional ornate picture frame around it.
It will completely change the whole vibe in a positive way.
As for the cable, all it needs is a punched hole in the wall, hidden behind the screen, and another directly beneath it by the floor.
For extra bang, frame the screen with passive dielectric mirrored glass. DM 30/70 lets the screen's light through, slightly dampened, which is good for use as an art display in the background. And when the screen is off it will look (and be!) an elegant mirror.
Put a plant under it on a nice (but cheap) pedestal and upgrade the bookshelf to something more library/furniture, less utilitarian press board.
I would suggest textured paint for the wall. Pick light and dark shades of the same color. Paint the light color first. Then paint the dark over it, and lightly use a sponge or crumpled paper to pull just enough off to leave the wall richly colored and textured. It is very classy and calming.
these are great ideas! I had thought about the picture frame one, but couldn't figure out a low cost way of adding a frame around the monitor. Best idea I had was fancy looking tape/stickers around the front of the monitor.
Definitely going to do the plant + new bookshelf below, already scouring Facebook marketplace.
I repurposed an old laptop with an RTX 2070 in it for a similar purpose. I have a Samsung Frame in my bedroom so the laptop spins up for about 15-20 minutes every day and generates new imagery using a combination of a small 7b LLM model to generate a stable diffusion prompt to generate the imagery. It's then fed through moderation filters, various upscaling, img2img and finally piped out to the Samsung Frame via a python websocket api.
Works pretty well although I've woken up to some pretty bizarre looking stuff every once in a while.
That screen needs a thick traditional ornate picture frame around it.
It will completely change the whole vibe in a positive way.
As for the cable, all it needs is a punched hole in the wall, hidden behind the screen, and another directly beneath it by the floor.
For extra bang, frame the screen with passive dielectric mirrored glass. DM 30/70 lets the screen's light through, slightly dampened, which is good for use as an art display in the background. And when the screen is off it will look (and be!) an elegant mirror.
Put a plant under it on a nice (but cheap) pedestal and upgrade the bookshelf to something more library/furniture, less utilitarian press board.
I would suggest textured paint for the wall. Pick light and dark shades of the same color. Paint the light color first. Then paint the dark over it, and lightly use a sponge or crumpled paper to pull just enough off to leave the wall richly colored and textured. It is very classy and calming.
I can go on... and on.
these are great ideas! I had thought about the picture frame one, but couldn't figure out a low cost way of adding a frame around the monitor. Best idea I had was fancy looking tape/stickers around the front of the monitor. Definitely going to do the plant + new bookshelf below, already scouring Facebook marketplace.
I repurposed an old laptop with an RTX 2070 in it for a similar purpose. I have a Samsung Frame in my bedroom so the laptop spins up for about 15-20 minutes every day and generates new imagery using a combination of a small 7b LLM model to generate a stable diffusion prompt to generate the imagery. It's then fed through moderation filters, various upscaling, img2img and finally piped out to the Samsung Frame via a python websocket api.
Works pretty well although I've woken up to some pretty bizarre looking stuff every once in a while.
This is a mirror of what gets generated for it.
https://screensaver.specr.net
FYI, I got around the cable issue by aligning the TV directly above my piano which helps to hide it.