They ’re nowhere near as Brobdingnagian as the CRT and rear - forcing out TVs many of us grew up with , but a ample flatscreen can still take up quite a bit of blank in a room — unless youfind some clever wayto make it go away at the push of a release .

You might enquire what living space is being sacrifice on the upper floor of this plate every time the telly retract , but the resolution is none , there ’s only an empty attic up there . In the limited space available above their living room , this resourceful house hacker oversee to squelch in space for the TV , a remotely operated winch , and a counterweighted pulley system .

The customs duty setup does limit how prominent a TV the householder can kick upstairs to in the future — no full-grown than the hole in the ceiling without additional redevelopment . But the extra space made available in the room without a Brobdingnagian amusement centerfield against one wall draw this hack worth turn over .

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