A TV that’s hung too high feels like sitting in the front row of a cinema – neck craned, shoulders tense. Too low, and it looks odd and can be blocked by furniture or people. “Eye level” when you’re actually seated is more important than some generic height number.
By sitting where you’ll normally watch – sofa, bed, chairs – and having someone measure your eye height from the floor, you get a realistic reference. The centre of the TV screen should roughly align with that height or slightly below, depending on your preference.
This small bit of measuring saves you from living with a screen that always feels slightly uncomfortable to look at. Once wires are concealed and brackets are fixed, you don’t want to be redoing it.
