Consumer Reports takes you through the DIY steps to wall-mount a TV. A wall-mounted TV can look better than one sitting on a stand, and keep your family safe from a TV tip-over.

If you want to hang your flat-panel TV on the wall, we recommend the Sanus VLT7 or Sanus VLF728-B2, depending on how much motion you need in your mount.

When I had a basic tilt mount for my old 70-inch TV, simply adjusting HDMI plugs in the back could be a two-person job, because we had to lift the TV off the wall in order to reach the ports.

Wall mounting a TV isn’t the easiest DIY job, but it’s one we have a lot of experience with. Here’s how to get your TV from tabletop to wall-anchored status.