If the wall is not yours, the honest TV stand is the one that never asks for it. No drill. No rawl plugs. No "we will fill that before we leave." The screen still has to sit at the right height. The floor can do that job.
A hole in someone else's plaster is a deposit, a Saturday, and an argument. A stand is none of those.
We already made a general case for the floor. This one is narrower. It is for rented flats, listed walls, plasterboard you do not trust, and anyone who might move in two years and does not want to take a wall with them.
What you are actually avoiding
A wall mount is a commitment to one spot, one height, and a repair on the way out. In a rental that repair is often in the contract. In a thin partition it is also a gamble: miss a stud, and the set is hanging on plaster. Landlords vary. Some will allow a mount. Many will not. None of them will thank you for three extra holes "just to get the height right."
A floor stand skips the conversation. You place it, you level it, you hang the TV on the VESA brackets. When you leave, the stand comes with you. The wall looks the way you found it.
The height problem, without the wall
Most mounts end up too high. That is not a rental problem, it is a human one: people hang the screen where it looks tidy while they are standing. You watch sitting down. Eye level from a sofa is low. We wrote the height rule properly elsewhere.
A low easel stand is already in the right band for a living room. You do not need to measure twice on a wall you cannot mark. You set the stand, sit on the sofa, and check. If it is wrong, you move the stand, not the plaster.
Moving house is part of the product
A Vislund easel comes apart the way it went together: legs, rail, brackets, one hex key. It is not 160 cm of cabinet to get down a stairwell. The next flat may have a different alcove, a worse socket, a roommate who wants the sofa the other way. The stand does not care. A mount cares a lot.
If the new place finally has a wall you are allowed to use, you can still mount later. You have not spent the deposit to find that out.
What a renter should still check
The floor has to be reasonably level. A thick rug under one side of the base is a bad idea. Keep the stand on the boards or on a flat, firm surface. If you have kids or a large dog, read what we built in for tip-over and do the part that is still on you: cable slack, no climbing, no yanking the screen.
Cables still need a plan. You cannot chase them into the wall. Run them down the stand and along the skirting to the nearest socket. The cable piece is written for an open stand, which is what you have.
A 65-inch set is fine on the floor if the VESA pattern matches. The size range is 42 to 75 inches, VESA 200x100 to 600x400. A large panel in a small rental often looks calmer low than it would high on the only decent wall. That is the quieter 65 argument, and it applies twice when you cannot paint or hang anything else to share the wall.
When a mount is still the answer
If the landlord has said yes in writing, the wall is solid, and the only seating faces a wall with no floor in front of it, mount it. A bedroom you watch lying down is another fair case. We are not against holes. We are against holes you will pay for twice.
For everyone else in a temporary room: walnut on black steel, or beech on white steel, low, no drill. That is the whole product.
