Are you trying to hide the back/side of the TV from being seen through the glass on the other side? Do you require storage space (hidden behind doors/draws, or not)? Do you have any appliances that need to sit with your tv eg. Hard drive recorder, dvd player etc, game playing machine?

What is behind the brick wall? Hopefully not a secret chamber with a hidden body?

I'm also worried about the old plaster actually taking the weight of a bracket. It's very hard to put a screw into our walls, the plaster falls away like talc. And the shelving units are too short by a couple of cms (If they went to the wall we couldn't open and close the bifolds). Ah well. Thanks for all your suggestions. Much appreciated!

My internet keeps dropping out since the NBN went past out house so I hope this works.... we are designing our new extension to our federation sandstone villa, which I have sought advice on before in this forum (thanks for the useful replies). At the moment we are working with our building designer who I am impressed with but I am not sure on one particular aspect. I was thinking that the South facing wall in my husband's drafting (which is in earlier note) would have the TV, fireplace and also some clerestory windows along some of the top (they presumably couldn't go the whole way along because of the fireplace), and a large artwork above the fireplace . The look I am aiming for is something like the first photo , but with the windows and art added. I like a fairly minimalist look generally with "stuff" hidden in built in storage. The designer said it would be better not to have clerestory windows above the TV due to glare but rather to have windows either side of the fireplace and TV and then you can use blinds if there is glare. This may mess up my nice clean look so I am not sure - what do you guys think? Also the trampoline, a fence and out little veggie patch will behind the Southern wall so I don't really want them particularly visible. There will be windows/glass doors on the North, West and a little from the East so plenty of light from other directions.( Do I even need windows on the Southern side?) One option I thought of to make a window on this wall less of a feature, is just to have one and have it set back a bit. It would be set back by necessity I suppose due to the depth of the fireplace. The 2nd picture has clerestory windows above the tv but with the windows set back so maybe glare is less of an issue with that design ? I guess I could put the TV on the Western wall of the living area but I would have thought the glare would be worse there as we will have a large picture window out to the pool on the side that faces East. We were actually thinking we would have storage and a study nook hidden behind doors that fold away on that Western side. (By the way, when looking at our plans please disregard other aspects as we know there are other details / dimensions/ door/window extent and positions etc that don't work yet and they are a work in progress). Thanks for any thoughts you have.