New Build Homes and TV Wall Units: The UK Space Squeeze Report

Furniture in Fashion reports that in new build UK housing the floating TV unit has shifted from style preference to spatial necessity. The Nationally Described Space Standard sets internal floor area requirements for new homes in England where adopted, establishing a floor rather than a target, and open plan ground floors mean the living zone rarely has four walls of its own. Meanwhile screens have widened, with a 55 inch panel measuring roughly 123cm and a 65 inch roughly 145cm. Our 2026 report sets out minimum unit lengths and mounting heights for five screen sizes, identifies excessive mounting height as the most common error given seated eye height of 100cm to 110cm, and addresses the fixing problem created by plasterboard stud partitions. It also covers the cable and socket difficulty specific to new build construction, where outlet positions are fixed and rarely align with the television wall....