How High to Mount a TV (and the Mounting Mistakes We Fix Most)

June 21, 2026 · Home Theater

Eye-level math by seating distance and screen size, the fireplace-mount tradeoff, mount-type selection, and how we hide wires in the wall.

# How High to Mount a TV (and the Mounting Mistakes We Fix Most) Ask ten people how high a TV should hang and you'll get ten answers. Most of them are wrong, and most of them lead to the same outcome: a screen mounted too high, a stiff neck after every movie, and a glare problem nobody noticed in the showroom. We mount displays across the Twin Cities west metro every week, from Plymouth split-levels to Lake Minnetonka great rooms, and the height question is the one we correct most. Here's how we actually solve it. ## How High Should a TV Be Mounted The rule is eye level, not wall center. When you're seated, your eyes should land on the center of the screen, or slightly below it. For most living rooms that puts the **center of the screen 42 to 48 inches off the floor**, because a seated adult's eye line sits around 42 inches. Bigger screens shift the math: the taller the panel, the lower its center has to drop so the top edge doesn't push you to crane upward. A quick way to get it right: - Measure your eye height while seated in your primary spot - That number is roughly where the **center** of the screen should land - For a 65-inch TV (about 32 inches tall), that puts the bottom edge around 26 inches off the floor and the top around 58 - Sit farther back and you can mount slightly higher, because a longer viewing distance flattens the upward angle The most common mistake we see is mounting a TV the way you'd hang a painting, centered on the wall. A screen looks balanced