Newmarket Living Room Feature Wall

This Newmarket living room commission centred on a single design problem: how do you make a television wall feel considered rather than incidental? The answer was to treat the screen as part of a larger millwork composition rather than something mounted to a bare wall.

We built a large-format oak wood panel as the visual anchor — floor-to-ceiling in proportion, with clean vertical seams that give it texture without competing with the room's all-white envelope. The TV mount is integrated flush into the panel, so the screen sits as part of the design rather than in front of it. An LED strip runs the perimeter of the panel, invisible in daylight but casting a warm glow behind the oak in the evening that makes the wall feel backlit and alive.

Below, a long floating white media cabinet runs the full width of the panel and beyond, providing substantial concealed storage behind handleless push-to-open doors. The cabinet sits low and light, keeping the wall composition top-heavy in a way that draws the eye upward to the panel and the linear LED ceiling track above.

The finished room is calm, uncluttered, and works equally well empty and staged — a feature wall that enhances the architecture rather than decorating over it.