Organic Modern Living Room Credenza Ideas

Ask the television question first. Will a screen sit on this cabinet, hang above it, or live in another room entirely? Three of these six living rooms built their long cabinet around a TV and three did not, and the two groups solve different problems. Each one is a room from the Dark Luxury Lookbook that you can shop piece by piece.

Organic modern living room credenza pictures, screen or no screen

The media rooms run 63, 74 and 98 inches: a brown sheesham console under an aged brass oval, a brown acacia stand facing an 83 inch beige sofa, and a long brown wood console with storage behind a two tier oak coffee table. The other rooms hold a 69 inch black sideboard and a 90 inch reclaimed wood buffet that appears twice. If a screen is part of your plan, start with our TV and media credenzas.

Organic modern living room credenza photos measured against the screen

A television that hangs past the ends of its cabinet looks bought first, with the furniture apologized for later. Leave at least a hand's width of top showing on each side of the screen, more if the wall allows, and the 98 inch console here does it with room to spare. The band below runs from 38 to 107 inches, and under a screen I would ignore anything short of 60. Browse our credenza cabinets by length first.

Organic modern living room credenza gallery without a television

Without a screen the cabinet becomes a ledge for objects and a base for art. The 69 inch black sideboard by Moe's holds a beige marble oval disc on a stand and a cast aluminum footed boat from the E+E Collection, two pieces and a lot of empty top. The reclaimed buffet stands near a cream faux fur lounge chair in one room and a tan leather lounge chair in another, backdrop to a reading corner. More of that thinking lives in our living room credenza ideas.

Reclaimed wood forgives a living room

The 90 inch reclaimed buffet is the only piece photographed twice, and I see why. Old wood already carries dents, nail holes and color shifts, so a toy truck or a sweating glass adds nothing it has not survived before. Smooth walnut or white lacquer shows every mark in raking morning light. For a gentler version of the same honesty, look at our wood credenzas.

Doors hide, drawers sort

Searches for a living room credenza with drawers are climbing, for remotes, chargers and board games. Drawers sort small things. Doors hide big ones: the router, the cables, the stack of throws. The band holds both, from a 72 inch greige walnut cabinet with six drawers and domed pulls to a 107 inch dark walnut piece built extra long. Most organic modern living room credenza ideas stop at the top; I would start inside. Our sideboards and buffet cabinets cover every mix of the two.

The door face is the art

Organic modern fronts rarely sit flat. The band carries chevron doors in black and natural oak, wave carved walnut, chiseled mindi wood, pleated mindi and a carved collage door. Over a cabinet like that, hang nothing large, or one quiet piece, because the front is already working. The organic modern living room credenza inspiration worth copying is restraint above a busy face. Pair it with plainer pieces from our organic modern living room furniture.

One long run or two short ones

A single 90 inch run reads calm on an unbroken wall. A wall split by a window or a doorway often takes two compact cabinets better, one each side, each around 40 inches, with the gap left honest rather than bridged. Our walnut sideboards include several shorter pieces that pair well.

The mistake is pushing it into a corner

Long cabinets want to be centered on something: a wall, a sofa, a window, a screen. Shoved sideways to make room for a plant, a 90 inch piece looks parked rather than placed. If it cannot center on its own wall, center it on the sofa opposite, so the two long lines face each other across the rug. See how the style handles the whole room in our organic modern living room ideas.

What glass fronts do after dark

Two cabinets in the band have glass doors, a 73 inch black one and a sage green one. By day they read as furniture. At night, with only a lamp burning nearby, the glass turns into a dark mirror and hands the room back to you, and anything lit inside becomes the brightest thing on that wall. Solid wood fronts just go quiet. Decide which you want before you fill the shelves.