Living rooms in Goring-on-Thames tend to fall into two camps: cosy front rooms in flint and brick cottages, often with a working fireplace and a chimney breast that dominates one wall, and larger reception rooms in the village's Victorian villas and detached houses, some with river or hillside views worth keeping clear of clutter. A media unit or media wall has to suit whichever kind of room it goes into, since a design that works in a wide, tall villa reception room will overwhelm a low-ceilinged cottage sitting room.
In the cottages, alcove media units either side of a chimney breast are the natural fit, built to the exact width of each alcove since they are rarely identical, with cable routes planned through the chimney breast or skirting rather than left trailing across the hearth. In the larger villas and detached houses, a full media wall with a recessed television, floating shelving and concealed storage makes better use of the wall area, and there is often more scope to route cables within a stud wall rather than working around solid masonry.
Whichever design suits the room, the electrical side, new sockets, aerial points and any lighting built into the unit, is carried out by the qualified electrician we work with, planned in at first fix so nothing is left trailing once the joinery goes up. Our workshop at Blackbarn Farm in Ipsden is close enough to Goring that fitting a media unit does not need to be batched with other work to be worthwhile, and we are happy to visit for a single alcove unit as readily as a full room reconfiguration.
