West Lake Hills is one of Central Texas’s most distinctive small municipalities — the wooded hillside community west of MoPac in the Westlake area, where custom homes on generous lots take full advantage of the Hill Country topography and generations of Austin professionals have built the kind of formal architectural spaces you don’t see as often in newer builds. The dining rooms here are real dining rooms: separate, intentional, designed for entertaining and staged for guests. So when a West Lake Hills homeowner reached out about installing a 65″ Samsung Frame TV in their formal dining room with Art Mode as the display default, we knew this was exactly the install where the Frame’s core promise — “a TV that looks like framed art on the wall when you’re not watching it” — was going to deliver on every dinner party for years to come.

The setup was a 65″ Samsung Frame TV mounted on its included Slim Fit Wall Mount in a formal dining room, with Art Mode configured to display a curated rotation of artwork chosen by the homeowner. We anchored the Slim Fit mount into multiple studs (a 65″ Frame weighs around 55 pounds and needs proper anchoring), set the mount level and centered on the dining room wall, and hung the Frame with the tight flush profile the Slim Fit is designed to deliver. The One Connect cable and power came in from behind, cabling routed cleanly to a low-voltage pass-through, and the Frame settled into place with only the artwork visible from any angle in the room. Art Mode setup: we walked the homeowner through the built-in art library (over 2,000 pieces from museums and galleries), the free custom-upload feature (they can display personal photos or their own scanned artwork), and the motion sensor settings that turn Art Mode on when someone’s in the room and off when the room is empty to conserve power. Finished install: 65″ Frame reading as a piece of framed art on the dining room wall — anchor visual for every dinner party, disappears into “not a TV” mode automatically.

The dining room is arguably the single best room in the house for a Samsung Frame TV, and it’s the install context most Frame buyers don’t consider until someone points it out. Here’s the case for it. A dining room is a room where “TV” is fundamentally not the intended function — the space is designed for meals, conversation, and entertaining, and a traditional black-rectangle TV in that room reads as visually wrong even when it’s off. The Frame solves this precisely because Art Mode transforms the TV into a piece of framed art the moment nobody’s watching it, so the dining room continues to read as a dining room instead of “the room with a TV in it.” Three details make dining room Frame installs particularly successful. First: Art Mode is genuinely convincing when the install is done right. The matte anti-glare display, the customizable art frame bezel that surrounds it, and the motion sensor that turns the display on and off based on room presence all combine to make the Frame read as art from any typical dining room viewing distance. Second: the Slim Fit Wall Mount that comes with the Frame is engineered to hold the TV close to the wall, preserving the flat “framed art” profile. Third: the built-in art library plus custom upload means you’re not stuck with what Samsung ships — you can display your own photography, scanned family art, or curated pieces from the Samsung Art Store, which for a dining room where the art on the wall matters is meaningfully more valuable than a fixed painting. For homeowners who entertain, the Frame in a dining room is the install that gets the most compliments from guests — because guests can’t tell it’s a TV.

Bat City TV is an authorized Samsung dealer, which means we sell, source, and install the entire Samsung Frame TV and Frame Pro lineup at competitive dealer pricing across every size from 43″ up to 85″ — including installations in living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, home offices, and formal entertaining spaces where Art Mode is the whole point. We handle Slim Fit Wall Mount installation, recessed wall box installation for true flush profile, One Connect Box concealment, complete Art Mode setup with custom art curation, and all cable concealment. We’re also authorized dealers for LG, Sony, and Sonos. Our West Lake Hills service area covers Westlake, Rollingwood, Tarrytown, Enfield, Bee Cave, Barton Creek, and all of Central and West Austin.

13 years in Austin. 390 five-star Google reviews. Authorized dealer for Samsung, LG, Sony, and Sonos. Whether you want a Samsung Frame TV in your dining room, living room, bedroom, or home office professionally installed with full Art Mode setup, or a complete custom home theater system designed and installed end to end, we deliver the same care on every job. Call 512-865-6185 or visit batcitytv.com for a free estimate on Samsung Frame TV installation, dining room TV installs, Art Mode setup, or any AV project in West Lake Hills or anywhere across Austin.