01The problem
Mounting a television is not one job. On a stud wall you find framing and lag into it. On brick you drill and sleeve-anchor. Over a fireplace you are working around a mantel and a heat source with a full-motion arm that has to clear both. Using the wrong approach on any of them is how a TV ends up on the floor.
02What we did
For each one: confirm what is behind the surface, pick the anchor that suits it, level the plate, mount, then dress the cables — either through an in-wall pass-through where the wall allows it, or in a painted surface raceway where it does not.
03The result
Level, solid, and no cable hanging down the wall. On the brick wall the arm swings out to face the kitchen and folds back flat when it is not in use.