When Tom and I got married, we entered our union with some decorating baggage. I came into the relationship with a 1990s-style overstuffed beige sofa and love seat (Yes! Beige. Me!) that my cat had loved a little too much. Tom came in with black leather and chrome recliners and a stereo system that had no less than 10 components. Hello, Bachelor Pad!
I knew that it would be easy to get rid of his chairs and my sofas once we had enough money to replace them. But, the stereo system was another story. Until we met, it was his baby, so I knew it was going nowhere. He set it up in his light wood and chrome media stand (another pre-Lindsay purchase), and I just lived with looking at it for several years.
Then, Baby Zack came along.
Within days of Zack learning to walk, he moseyed over to the speakers and ripped the covers off of them. Tom realized that having his big stereo system out where our dear baby could destroy it was a bad idea. So, we went out and bought a nice wooden media cabinet with a glass door. I think it may have been the first piece of furniture that we bought together.
That media cabinet ended up being my first foray into a type of decorating now referred to as #Techoration. Basically, #Techoration is the idea that we can design and decorate around our items like televisions, speakers, and gaming systems instead of just living with looking at them all the time.
Since we bought that media cabinet, my thoughts on techorating have evolved past adding furniture pieces directly intended to house media components. You may have seen shots of my kids’ playroom, which was the first spot that I started actively decorating around our technology. I wanted to make this space a place that served more function than just a playroom, so a TV was a necessary evil.
I really don’t mind the look of a black, flat screen TV. I know a lot of people like to frame them or hide them behind cabinet doors, and those are definitely valid things to do in a room. Instead, I prefer to have a good looking piece of technology that blends into my furnishings.
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