Why We Do Not Make a TV Cabinet

Beech wood and an open white steel frame

We do not make a TV cabinet. Not a lowboard, not a 160 cm unit, not a sideboard with a slot for the screen. That is not a gap in the range. It is the point.

A cabinet is good at hiding things. It is also good at turning the TV into more furniture.

If you arrived here from a search for a TV unit, this article is the honest fork. You may still want a cupboard. We would like you to want it for the right reasons, and not because the internet assumed a screen needs a piece of storage underneath it.

What a cabinet is actually for

A cabinet is storage. Doors, drawers, a wide top. It earns its floor space by swallowing remotes, routers, vinyl, the games you still have. In a room that needs that, it is a good object. The TV then sits on it, or above it, as one more thing the furniture is carrying.

That is a different job from holding a screen at eye level. Mixing the two is how you end up buying 160 cm of furniture to solve a VESA problem.

What it does to the picture

A 65-inch TV is already a large black field. A wide cabinet under it frames that field. The whole composition gets bigger: screen plus plinth plus handles plus the visual weight of closed doors. The room reads "media wall" even when you wanted the opposite.

An open easel does not add a second rectangle. The screen stays the picture. The wood and steel stay a thin line underneath. We go into the form in what an easel TV stand actually is, and into the size problem in how to make a 65-inch TV look quieter.

The searches that lead to the wrong object

People type the furniture word they already know. In English that is often "tv unit" or a width in centimetres. In German it is a Lowboard. In Swedish a TV-bänk. In Polish a szafka RTV. Those are real products. They are not what we make. Our noun is the stand: easel, stativ, stojak, the thing that holds the screen and then recedes.

If you need the cupboard, buy a cupboard you like and put it on another wall, or beside the stand, not as a throne for the TV. The stand can be narrower than the panel. It does not have to match the width of the screen. That is the part cabinet shopping gets backwards.

Where the mess actually goes

We are not going to pretend living rooms have no clutter. A router, a soundbar, a couple of boxes: they exist. An open stand makes you decide. Cables can run clean; we wrote how. A small closed box somewhere else in the room will hide more than a 160 cm unit ever needed to, and it will not sit in your eyeline under the picture.

Heat is the other half. Closed cabinets trap it behind the set. An open stand does not. That is not a slogan. It is airflow.

When you should ignore us

If the room has no other storage and you truly live out of that wall, a cabinet may be the honest piece. If you want the TV to disappear into a run of joinery, that is a carpenter, not a stand. If you want doors so the screen is gone when guests come, we are the wrong shop.

For everyone else, the quieter room is the one that does not add a second piece of furniture under the largest object you own. Walnut on black steel, or beech on white steel, low, open. That is the whole argument.

Tuotteeseen

Pyökki EASEL TV-teline 42"-75"

Vislund

Pyökki EASEL TV-teline 42"-75"

Vaaleampi puu, avoimempi huone

€199,00

Katso tuote
Pähkinäpuu EASEL TV-teline 42"-75"

Vislund

Pähkinäpuu EASEL TV-teline 42"-75"

Tummempi puu, rauhallisempi huone

€199,00

Katso tuote

Common questions

Can a TV sit on a cabinet I already have?

Yes, if the cabinet is stable, level, and large enough for the feet or the soundbar you are using. That does not make the cabinet a better mount. It makes it furniture you already paid for.

Why do so many 65-inch guides recommend a 160 cm unit?

Because they are writing about cabinets. They match furniture width to screen width. An easel stand holds the TV by the VESA holes, so the stand can be narrower than the panel.

Where do I put the soundbar and the router?

The soundbar can live as its own object, not as a reason to buy a sideboard. The router is happier in a small closed box that is not under the TV. Keep the stand for the screen.

Is this only for minimal rooms?

No. It is for rooms that already have enough furniture. Adding a lowboard under a 65-inch set is how a full room starts to look busy in the one place you wanted calm.

Related reading

What an easel TV stand actually is
Wall mount or stand? An honest case for the floor
Walnut or beech: how to choose
Walnut easel TV stand · Beech easel TV stand