We have a smaller than what most folks have TV in our family room. That’s it…one TV.
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Ditto here! My husband was even mistaken for BG a few times back in the day when they had the same eyeglasses! 
Alas, still waiting… 
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I am loving hearing everyone’s likes, dislikes, and experiences - thanks!
I love pocket doors in general (even though I have none!) Maybe my next house will have large pocket doors (or glass French) doors between the rooms so I can have open-concept or separation on demand!
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Curious about aging-in-place with open floor plan. Could convert powder room to ADA compliant full bath, and convert open den to bedroom with 4th wall and door.
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I have been thinking about that. We have zero step entry in our current house, so if one of us (god forbid!) is not going to be able to use the stairs, we can convert the library to a MB, and the adjacent powder room/laundry could be converted back into a bathroom with a shower (the original owner had a full bath there).
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We love the 3 pocket doors in our compact 1250 sq ft home. We are happy with it and no plans to upsize nor downsize. One door is between our bedroom and our shower/toilet. The other two can be closed to enclose the kitchen but are generally left open. Our great room has sliding patio doors opening to a nice bricked area and backyard. The entire lot is 7000 or 7500 sq ft, so tiny by standards of many here. It works well for us.
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Samsung makes a frame tv. When it’s off, it looks like a piece of art. So I’ve heard and seen pictures but we just have a big black box
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I love having the TV on the wall. It takes up so much less room than a bulky TV stand.
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We are a 1 TV, smaller than normal household also. Right now we are considering replacing our TV, which we inherited back in 2015 (It won’t play Amazon stuff any longer). To get a new TV, we also need a new TV stand. They have some ugly stands out there.
That’s what I was going to ask @ChoatieMom - how would you feel about a frame tv? You can chose the type of photo. Could be a pic from a family vacation or could be a piece of art. (Like a photo of a painting
My S put the one and only tv we have in his room, in the closet. It is the tv he and D bought us one Christmas. It’s a smart tv. I like that when the closet is closed (as it usually is), the tv disappears. We just don’t watch tv all that much. S also bought an Apple TV remote and he initially programmed it but somehow it got I programmed and D reprogrammed it.
My sibs have a lot more tvs than we do but we really don’t see the need for another.
I think a smaller house would be better if you live in a climate that is temperate (say San Diego or Hawaii) where you spend lots of time outdoors. But there are so few places like that.
Says the person living in the cold Midwest where we have been cooped up together and need some separation in space 
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My sibs mostly have houses 2-3 times the size of our home. I am happy with smaller (dislike cleaning) and yes, our outdoors are lovely most of the time and very walkable neighborhood.
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My friend recently got one of these. And dh’s boss has one at their office. Fabulous!
We have a “middle” house. Only house we’ve owned. Mid-60s split level, which is great for many rooms where you can have an office/quiet bedrooms, etc., but is a pain for not having a bedroom/bathroom on the main floor. Lots of folks take this model and create an open floor plan on the main level, but others don’t, because they don’t want grease on the LR furniture. We’d like to upgrade the kitchen, but would have to reconfigure walls to get more than a 30" fridge.
If I had my druthers, I’d get something that’s a single level, three bedrooms total with two of them big master bedrooms (one for my sewing area) with accessible bathrooms, living room, and a bigger kitchen. Basically, about 1800-2000 square footage but more usefully arranged.
H has no desire to pack up and move, though, so I think entropy and minor renovations will prevail.
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To me, having everything on one level is nice and easy. That’s how it was when I grew up and the house we bought and have lived in most of our married life is also all in one level. It’s just simpler for us, though not as private or soundproof as if we had more separation and even different wings of the house. It works well for us and when you want more privacy, closing the door works well enough for all of us.
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You can get a streaming device like a Roku, Amazon Fire, or Apple TV to play Amazon Prime videos without having to replace the TV. It will plug into the HDMI port of your TV. Apple TV is what we have, but it can run twice the cost of the others.
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I’m so glad someone raised the noise issue upthread. I’m now congnizant of that issue more in my current house, and really trying to figure out how to account for that in a smaller place. Just don’t want to hear the stockmarket channel all day long.
Has anyone checked into TV speakers that are close to the chair of the viewer, so the volume maybe doesn’t echo so much? We have some version of that now but it’s still hard to escape the sound in an open floor plan
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I am not familiar with those speakers. But on the rare occasion where I really do want quiet (like book club zoom in my favorite sunny breakfast bar location), hubby wears his airpods to listen to the TV on the coach in adjacent family room.
Perhaps I have more tolerance to noise etc now due to working the much of last decade of my career in open office space.
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How about sound from inside of your couch?
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