Integrate a Floating TV Board: Clever Tech Solutions for Your Living Room with Novamobili Reverse

The combination of raw, heavily textured exposed concrete and an absolutely smooth, matte furniture surface creates enormous visual tension. To prevent a massive room from feeling oppressive, we deliberately work with apparent weightlessness in interior design. A wall-mounted element breaks the visual heaviness of the concrete wall and leaves the floor untouched, which visually maximizes the room's floor space.

For the perfect floating effect, we typically mount furniture of this type with a distance of 20 to 25 centimeters from the floor. This exact height allows daylight from the floor-to-ceiling windows to flow unhindered beneath the carcass. The Novamobili Reverse Lowboard Configurator system offers precisely this puristic line, which acts as a calm counterpoint to the organic tree landscape outside the window.

Powerful game consoles and AV receivers generate significant waste heat under load. If these devices are operated in completely closed cabinets, there is a risk of heat build-up, which can throttle or damage the hardware. The solution lies in a conscious mix of closed fronts for unsightly cable clutter and open compartments for heat-intensive technology.

For current consoles, we always plan for a free circulation area of at least 10 centimeters to the rear and top. An open element, as seen in detail here, architecturally frames the technology instead of desperately hiding it. The Novamobili Reverse Lowboard Configurator allows the depth and layout to be chosen precisely so that devices fit flush and are sufficiently ventilated, while adjacent coffee table books lend a homely touch to the technology compartment.

Targeted backlighting serves far more than just decorative purposes. So-called wall-washing – the flat illumination of a wall – emphasizes the pores and formwork joints of the concrete and gives the flat wall a three-dimensional depth. In addition, a warm background light behind the television reduces the contrast to the bright screen, which noticeably relieves eye strain during evening use.

For a soft, homogeneous light gradient without harsh shadow edges, we ideally position the LED profile 2 to 3 centimeters inwards from the rear edge of the furniture. The Novamobili Reverse Lowboard Configurator model seamlessly integrates such lighting solutions, so that the carcass appears to glow on its own in the evening, transforming the coolness of the concrete into a warm, inviting atmosphere.

The proportions between the screen and the piece of furniture significantly determine the visual tranquility in the room. A TV set that occupies almost the entire width of the furniture below it always appears cramped and top-heavy. A reliable rule of thumb from practice is: The piece of furniture must be at least 1.5 times the width of the television. For a 65-inch device (approx. 145 cm width), this requires a board over two meters in length.

This overhanging width creates a strong horizontal baseline that visually stretches the room and integrates the television into the overall composition, rather than allowing it to dominate as a black monolith. The Novamobili Reverse Lowboard Configurator system perfectly implements this expansive horizontality. Those who want to additionally structure the room upwards will find suitable vertical additions in our guide to living room wall units for every living room.

The quality of a puristic piece of furniture is not revealed from a distance, but in a close-up of its details. In a handleless design without distracting fittings, the joint pattern inevitably comes into focus. Joint gaps of exactly 2 millimeters require absolutely torsion-resistant support materials and highly precisely adjustable hinges, so that the fronts form a flawless surface even after years.

The matte surface chosen here absorbs the incoming backlight from the windows, prevents distracting reflections, and is resistant to fingerprints. Anyone who plans their piece of furniture using the Novamobili Reverse Lowboard Konfigurator invests precisely in this invisible, yet daily noticeable processing quality that makes the difference between a simple cabinet and an architectural built-in furniture piece.

The illusion of a freely floating element immediately collapses if power or HDMI cables are visibly hanging from the wall. An uncompromisingly clean look requires flush-mounted wiring. When planning, we always recommend a conduit pipe embedded in the wall with a diameter of at least 50 millimeters, to easily guide even thick power plugs from the TV into the cabinet body.

Inside the furniture, you then need a strategically placed cable pass-through in the back panel to invisibly store power strips and transformers. Only this absolute cable freedom allows the Novamobili Reverse Lowboard Konfigurator model to be used like a gallery surface and artworks to be casually leaned against the wall. Our guide Integrating a Minimalist Lowboard Elegantly offers in-depth tips on such clean installations.