65" TV Mounted on a Metal-Stud Divider Wall in The Gulch, Nashville

Quick facts

Job type

65" TV Mounting

Location

The Gulch, Nashville, TN

Completed

September 2026

Scope

65" TV on a metal-stud divider wall, LED backlighting, wires run inside the wall

Home

Brand-new high-rise

TV size

65"

Wall surface

Divider wall with metal studs

The problem

A working nurse living in a brand-new high-rise in The Gulch had a 65-inch TV that sat on the floor for five months. Long shifts came first, and there was no spare time to deal with it. A family member stepped in and gave it an honest try, but the wall is framed with metal studs, and the TV could not go up that way.

What we did

The spot for the TV was a divider wall in an open layout, with concrete ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows. It is a clean, modern space, and the TV belonged right in the middle of that wall.

Like a lot of new high-rise construction, the walls here are framed with metal studs instead of wood. That changes the job. Metal studs are a different kind of wall from what most people have mounted on before, so a setback there says nothing about the person who tried. It is simply a wall that calls for a different approach.

The work went in three steps. First, the starting point: the TV leaning on the floor against the bare divider wall, where it had waited for five months. Second, I mounted the 65-inch TV, added LED backlighting behind the screen, and tested everything with the wires still out on the wall. Third, once it all worked, I ran the wires inside the wall, so nothing hangs below the screen and the wall reads clean and finished.

The backlight washes the wall around the TV and makes the whole setup look intentional, not just hung.