Samsung Frame TV and soundbar above a white mantel

A Frame with a white bezel over a white mantel, so the two read as one piece of trim. The soundbar is on its own bracket under the panel, and the One Connect cable runs down behind the mantel.

The wall here is drywall over framing, so the bracket is lagged into the studs, never into the drywall itself: we run an electronic stud finder across the full width of the bracket, confirm each stud with a magnet on the screw line, then drive 5/16-inch lag bolts into two of them. Past 55 inches a third stud or a pair of SnapToggle anchors shares the load.

A Samsung Frame TV hangs on Samsung's own slim no-gap mount, flat to the wall, and the install is really about the cable: the One Connect box needs a reachable home and its single thin cable a gentle path to the screen, so the box goes in a cabinet or the mantel and the cable comes up through a low-voltage plate. Art Mode is set up before we leave.

Above a working fireplace we check the heat first: the unit is burned for 20 minutes and an infrared reading is taken at bracket height, because a surround that climbs past 100 degrees will cook a panel. Electric and gas-insert fireplaces run cooler; a wood-burner that reads hot gets a pull-down mount instead.

The soundbar hangs on its own bracket 3 to 6 inches under the screen, in a stud or a SnapToggle pair, with the infrared window clear and HDMI ARC (or eARC where both ends support it) carrying the sound on one cable.

TV mounting is a flat rate by screen size: $129 up to 54", $159 for 55-69", $209 for 70-79", $299 for 80-94" and $399 from 95" (2 technicians). Soundbar mounting is $79. Hiding the wires inside the wall is $99 per TV. The bracket is yours or ours from $49, and there is no travel fee.