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How Big Are UK TVs Getting? Screen Size Trend & Furniture Impact 2010-2026
September 15, 2026

How Big Are UK TVs Getting? Screen Size Trend & Furniture Impact 2010-2026

Televisions have grown steadily since 2010 and living room furniture has changed shape to match: units are longer and lower, media towers have gone, and the terraced house alcove has become the awkward place to put a screen rather than the obvious one. Furniture in Fashion declines to attach a figure to that growth because no verifiable UK dataset on average domestic screen size exists, and works instead from fixed geometry. A 16:9 screen measures roughly 87 per cent of its diagonal in width, so a 55 inch set is around 122 cm across and a 75 inch set around 166 cm, and each step up adds about 20 cm to the wall requirement. Our analysis explains why seated eye level forces furniture lower as screens grow taller, why foot spacing matters more than diagonal, and why hallway and staircase access often decides the purchase. Alcove options and soundbar clearance are covered as well....

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Cable Clutter: Survey of 1,000 UK Households on Media Unit Wiring
September 15, 2026

Cable Clutter: Survey of 1,000 UK Households on Media Unit Wiring

This report contains no survey results, and we say so plainly: no fieldwork was carried out and no household percentages are published. What Furniture in Fashion offers instead is a precise account of a problem seen constantly in British living rooms, where media wiring has grown faster than the furniture built to hold it. Televisions became thinner, media units became shallower, and the number of connected devices around a screen multiplied, leaving a specification mismatch rather than a tidiness failure. The analysis identifies the dimensions that actually solve it: the gap between unit and wall, cable aperture size large enough for an assembled plug, compartment depth for consoles and amplifiers, and ventilation clearance above anything that runs warm. It covers the three honest solutions for wall mounted screens, including when surface trunking beats chasing a wall, and why sealing equipment away entirely causes heat and access problems....

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Sideboard or TV Unit? Survey of 1,000 UK Households on Living Room Storage Use
September 14, 2026

Sideboard or TV Unit? Survey of 1,000 UK Households on Living Room Storage Use

Choosing between a sideboard and a TV unit is really a decision about how a UK living room wall is divided between screen and storage. In this 2026 analysis, Furniture in Fashion sets out how wall mounted televisions collapsed the difference between the two categories, and why height, wall length and internal structure now decide the answer rather than the label on the product. The report carries no survey percentages: we did not commission fieldwork and hold no household panel, so it presents editorial assessment and dimensional guidance instead. It covers seated eye level and why sideboards often fail as stands, alcove sizing around chimney breasts, ventilation for consoles and soundbars, and the extra demands of open plan rooms where a unit is seen from behind. Guidance includes unit widths relative to screen size, surface heights, depth limits for small rooms and circulation clearances for zoning....

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TV Furniture in UK Flats: Fit Data for Living Rooms Under 15 m2
September 14, 2026

TV Furniture in UK Flats: Fit Data for Living Rooms Under 15 m2

Furniture in Fashion has published fit guidance for television furniture in UK flat living rooms under 15 square metres, and the conclusion is that depth, not width, is the dimension that fails. In a room where the seating wall and the screen wall are close together, every centimetre of unit depth comes out of the viewing distance and the walkway at once. The report sets out the relationship between room depth, screen size and furniture depth, explains why corner units are usually less efficient than they appear, and covers the three formats that work in small rooms: the low wide unit, the wall hung unit and the floating shelf with concealed cable routing. A fit table matches room depth to workable screen size and unit depth, with guidance for renters who cannot drill walls. Cable routing, rear void depth and screen height at seated eye level are covered in the same terms....

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How Much Does a Corner TV Stand Cost in the UK? 2026 Price Benchmark
September 14, 2026

How Much Does a Corner TV Stand Cost in the UK? 2026 Price Benchmark

No verified national benchmark exists for what a corner TV stand costs in the UK, and Furniture in Fashion has chosen to publish that finding rather than an invented average. Our 2026 analysis sets out what actually determines cost in this category: carcass panel thickness, back panel construction, drawer and hinge hardware, cable management design and whether the unit ships flat packed or assembled. Surface finish, the factor buyers judge first, has the weakest relationship to longevity. The report also addresses the sizing question that causes most returns, publishing a specification table matching screen sizes from 32 inch to 65 inch against minimum corner stand widths and the floor projection each creates. In terraced living rooms and upper floor flats, we recommend measuring the corner diagonal and the resulting walkway before selecting a width, and checking that assembled units can clear a standard 762 mm doorway and the turn on the stairs....

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Media Wall vs Entertainment Unit: UK Cost Comparison 2026
September 13, 2026

Media Wall vs Entertainment Unit: UK Cost Comparison 2026

A media wall and an entertainment unit solve the same problem by entirely different means, and Furniture in Fashion's 2026 comparison sets out where the real difference lies. One is a construction project involving studwork, plastering, decoration and regulated electrical work; the other is a delivered piece of furniture that requires no trades and can be moved or replaced. Our analysis explains why depth is the dimension that decides the outcome, with stud builds typically projecting 20 cm to 35 cm into the room across a full wall run, and why that matters in terraced front rooms and new build living rooms viewed along their short axis. We cover ventilation and access requirements for recessed screens and fires, the reversibility question for renters, and how to size a freestanding unit to the television. No cost figures are published....

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The UK Media Wall Trend: Search & Installation Data 2020-2026
September 13, 2026

The UK Media Wall Trend: Search & Installation Data 2020-2026

The media wall has become a mainstream British living room layout for structural reasons rather than stylistic ones: televisions grew wider while UK living rooms did not, and giving the screen its own wall returns the floor to the room. Furniture in Fashion, the UK modern furniture retailer, examines the format across the 2020 to 2026 period and states plainly that no national dataset on media wall searches or installations is published, so no figures are offered. Instead the report analyses what the wall must actually support: fixings that reach timber rather than plasterboard, conduit planned before boarding, ventilation for enclosed electronics, and the clearance figures stated by electric fire manufacturers. It sets out which approach suits Victorian terraces, 1930s semis, post war flats, new builds, open plan kitchen diners and rented homes, and explains why a built out frame is often the wrong answer in a compact lounge....

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Where Do Gamers Keep Their Consoles? Survey of 1,000 UK Households
September 13, 2026

Where Do Gamers Keep Their Consoles? Survey of 1,000 UK Households

The main home console in most UK households still sits in the living room, on or beneath the same unit that carries the television, and this report from Furniture in Fashion sets out why that placement holds and what it demands from furniture. No published national dataset records where UK households physically keep their consoles, so rather than estimate one, our analysis addresses the specification side of the question: the shelf openings, ventilation clearances, cable routes and door types that decide whether a console placement works. We conclude that ventilation, not shelf width, is the most common point of failure, that a clear internal opening of 45 cm by 35 cm by 20 cm suits current full size machines, and that chimney breast alcoves in UK terraced housing remain the single biggest physical constraint on media furniture. The report includes a placement comparison table and practical guidance on planning console storage before a television is wall mounted....

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Ideal TV Height Standards: Eye-Level Data From 500 UK Living Rooms
September 13, 2026

Ideal TV Height Standards: Eye-Level Data From 500 UK Living Rooms

Furniture in Fashion reports that the centre of a television screen belongs at seated eye level, which in most British living rooms falls close to 100 cm to 110 cm above the floor, considerably lower than screens are typically fitted. Our analysis sets out the geometry behind that conclusion, working from standard UK sofa seat heights of 42 cm to 45 cm and the physical proportions of 16:9 panels to establish the maximum sensible cabinet height for each common screen size. The report identifies the chimney breast as the leading cause of over-high installations in British housing, explains why larger screens require lower furniture rather than taller furniture, and addresses corner placement, tilting brackets and narrow terraced rooms. No measured national dataset of television heights exists and no survey fieldwork was conducted, so the findings are presented as specification-led editorial analysis for UK homes....

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Manchester’s Favourite Furniture Styles 2026
September 4, 2026

Manchester’s Favourite Furniture Styles 2026

Manchester is the clearest example in England of new build apartment living reaching a scale where it forms its own furniture market, and in this 2026 report Furniture in Fashion sets out what that means in practice. The city centre apartment room is square, has one glazed wall and no chimney breast, cornice or alcove, so the furniture has to create structure the architecture does not supply. We explain why full height glazing leaves most of these rooms with a single usable wall run, why wall mounted televisions and floating media units are the highest value move available, and how a corner sofa can define a seating zone without needing a wall behind it. The report covers underfloor heating freeing wall runs that radiators block, includes a table matching balcony depth to what genuinely fits outside, and explains why texture must be added deliberately in a neutral shell....

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