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Wall Mount your Nintendo Wii

How is it that video games have made it from your kid’s room to the living room? Gone are the days when video games were just a kid’s toy. 

Growing up in the 80’s, I remember spending countless hours locking myself in my room to play the classic Nintendo. Or even before then, having my older brothers kick me out of their room while they played Pong or some other video game. 

No longer are video gaming systems considered a child’s toy or activity.  We have 3 gaming systems in our home and the children in the house are only 2 and 3 years old.  I am still that kid that played Nintendo and Super NES for hours, only now I don’t like to have to go to my room.  With games for the Wii like Wii Sports and Wii Fit, even my wife likes to play.

Now that gaming systems have taken over the living room, where do you put them? We didn’t want our Wii sitting on the floor like my games back then.  I don’t want it sitting on the fireplace mantle with cords hanging down so the kids can grab it.  Our TV is wall mounted just above our fireplace and we barely have enough length for our 15 foot HDMI cord to reach the TV through the wall, but it looks very clean.

After buying our Wii, we were posed with problem of determining just where to put it.  We came up with the idea of wall mounting it behind our TV so that we didn’t have to open the wall to run more cable.  After spending hours searching online, driving to retail stores, even the home improvement ones, we couldn’t find anything that came close, so we decided to make our own.  We consulted with professionals in the plastics industry and came up with the Wii Wall Mount.  Now we get the play our games on the big screen and still get to keep our clean look as if the Wii wasn’t even there.

About the Author

A husband, father of two boys, pooper scooper for two dogs, an Executive Recruiter by day, and a Do it Yourselfer by night/weekend. Though it was much easier before children, when it comes to home projects I enjoy figuring it out myself. Having wall mounted several TV's between our first home and our present home, when it came to connecting our Nintendo Wii, it was only logical for me to find a way to do it. Thus the creation of the Wii Wall Mount by HideIt Mounts! If you aren't sure how to wall mount your Wii, check out our website.

How should I renovate my fireplace?

Our house was built in 1969, and the fireplace shows it. The style is very sixties, I really wish I could post a photo of it. It is kind of off center on the wall in our family room, the hearth runs into the wall, and the entire wall it is on is gray brick, which I hate but deal with. The mantle right now is just a shelf that the previous owners installed themselves, it is not sturdy and looks kind of cheap. Is it easy to replace the glass doors on a fireplace? Ours have gold-toned accents, we want to switch to black accents. And we want to install a nice white mantle with a shelf. What steps would we need to take in order to do so? And do you have any suggestions as to how to change/cover up the brick wall? We really want to bring the fireplace up to date.

Actually, you can paint the brick. I have no idea how easy or difficult it would be to replace the glass doors, but I wouldn't think that it would be that hard. Read these sites:
Painting a Brick Fireplace

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art43718.asp

Fireplace Decorating and Fireplace Remodeling

http://fireplacedecorating.blogspot.com/2007/07/can-mr-fix-it-remodel-fireplace-himself.html

Install Fireplace Doors

http://www.hgtv.com/rm-door-window-installing/install-fireplace-doors/index.html

How to Makeover a Fireplace

http://www.ehow.com/how_2171300_makeover-a-fireplace.html

How to Replace a Fireplace Mantel

http://www.ehow.com/how_4454452_replace-fireplace-mantel.html

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