Sideboard Buffet Cabinet, Black

Low cabinets get judged on their top surface, because within a week that surface is where the keys, the post and a lamp live. This one is flat, continuous and at the right height to drop things on without looking down. Behind the doors, two adjustable shelves take shoes, bags or whatever the hallway has no other home for.

In a living room it works under a wall-mounted screen, where a taller unit would crowd the picture and a shorter one would leave the cables visible. Black hides the scuffs that a hallway cabinet collects at ankle height, which is the reason we make this one dark first and light second.