A Samsung Frame TV in Alpharetta is mounted on Samsung’s own slim no-gap bracket, flat to the wall like a picture frame, 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. Labor is the flat rate by size, $159 for the 55 and 65-inch Frames and $209 for the 75, hiding the cable in the wall is $99, and the only thing Alpharetta changes is what is behind the drywall. Frames are common in the Avalon and Windward primary suites and over the mantels in Crabapple, and each of those walls is handled differently.
The mount: no gap, no tilt, no arm
The Frame ships with its slim wall mount, and that is the one to use: it pulls the panel tight to the wall so the bezel reads as a frame, not a television. There is no tilt and no arm, so the height has to be right the first time. In a living room that is seated eye level to the screen’s center; above a mantel it is as low as the mantel allows; in a bedroom, the height you see it from the pillow. The bracket is levelled with a digital inclinometer because a Frame hangs beside real art, and half a degree is obvious next to a picture rail.
The One Connect box and its cable
Everything plugs into the One Connect box, and one thin cable runs from the box to the screen. The box needs power and needs to be reachable, so it goes in the adjacent cabinet, the console below, or behind the mantel. The cable comes up through a recessed low-voltage plate and into the wall behind the panel, with no sharp bends. Nothing behind a flush panel is reachable once it is hung, so the plate and any right-angle adapters go in first. That run is the $99 in-wall concealment line; with it done, there is nothing on the wall to say the picture is a TV.
Avalon: steel studs
Most Avalon condos and townhomes frame their partitions in light-gauge steel. A lag bolt has almost nothing to bite in a steel stud, so the Frame’s bracket goes on Toggler SnapToggle anchors rated past 200 pounds, set through a clean hole with the strap snapped off flush: four behind a 65-inch Frame, six behind a 75. Behind some partitions is a concrete shear wall, which cannot be opened for the cable; there a paintable raceway carries it for $79 instead. Steel changes the hardware, not the price.
Windward, Halcyon and Crabapple: wood framing and mantels
The newer wood-framed houses are the easy case: studs at 16 inches on center, a clean bay for the cable, the box in the console. Over a mantel the cable drops behind the mantel to the box, and if the fireplace is a working wood-burner we take an infrared reading at bracket height first, because a Frame is a thin panel with very little tolerance for heat. Brick or stone surrounds in Crabapple carry the $99 masonry surcharge if the bracket anchors into them; a framed chimney breast above the stone does not.
Art Mode, the sensor and the finish
Before we leave: Art Mode on, the motion sensor set so the art shows when someone is in the room and the panel sleeps when nobody is, brightness matched to the room’s light, the bezel seated and aligned, and the remote paired. Every input is walked through. A Frame install runs 55 to 80 minutes on drywall.
Frames we have hung
The Atlanta crew’s Frame installs are written up with photos in the documented installs: one in a dark alcove above a marble fireplace, one with a white bezel over a white mantel, one with a decorative bezel and a soundbar, one in Art Mode on a plain cream wall. Price yours on the Alpharetta TV mounting page, or read the metro-wide Samsung Frame TV installation guide. Call (470) 777-4077 or book online; same-day before noon.
