Logistical question:
Pending local job offer, I am planning on turning my kitchen nook, turned den, turned home office back into a den/playroom. It's a corner turned into a three-sided room, about 10'x10' by kitchen counter/cooktop forming the third wall. The open side is a walkway from the kitchen to the basement door. That blank wall would be a great place to put a tv (well, for the time being, an LCD monitor that hooks up to my laptop, what with having those things already) except there's no electric.
If I got one of those floor cord protecters used in office settings, I could run a cord down to the floor, across the basement doorway, to another plug. Downside is then it is plugged in in the "play area"--great temptation for toddlers, but that could be overcome with furniture placement. Other downside--I'd have to rehang the basement door. No biggie--it an old, cheap hollow door I got from Menards as-is section for a buck, and my spouse hung it very poorly. This could be an opportunity to take it down, paint it, cut it to size, fix the series of slightly misplaced screw holes in the frame, and rehang it. Not that I'm that much better than my spouse at hanging a door, and of course that turns it into a slightly more expesnive and time-consuming project.
Or, I could run it up the wall, across the ceiling over the kitchen, into the fridge space, and plug it in behind the fridge.
Or, I could put a hole in the wall, put the cord through the wall and plug it in the living room. I have installed a plug on an electric wire before, but don't know if I did it right or safely or if that's a good/safe long-term solution.
Theoretically, I could put a larger hole in the wall behind the tv area (may wall-mount LCD anyway) and run a cord up behind the wall to the attic. And then I've got a cord in the attic. Not sure where to go from there.
I haven't actually been in the attic in over three years because of allergens. I could suck it up and work up there for a bit, though.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Links to working with electricity for dummies who don't know about electricity, but whose electrical engineer grandfathers instilled a deep caution of messing with electricity? Yeah, I know this is a silly question, but I've wanted to stick a tv on this wall for a couple years now and every time I give it up, just can't settle on which is best/safest compromise. This time I really want to do it, because it will give the kids more room for toy storage and playing and will get the tv out of the most immediate vicinity, let the space be more than just a couch-potato parking lot.
