TV Console Collection: Sizes, Styles, and Storage Options

The TV console is one of those pieces that homeowners often leave until the end of the renovation — and then realise too late that it anchors the entire living room. Get the size wrong and the television floats awkwardly above it or overwhelms it. Get the storage wrong and the console fills up within six months. Get the style wrong and every other considered decision in the room looks slightly off.

This guide walks through what to think about when choosing a TV console for a Singapore home: how to size it correctly for your television and wall, which storage configurations actually work in daily use, and how to match the piece to the style you have built in the rest of the living room. Whether you are furnishing a new BTO, refreshing a resale flat, or finishing a condo renovation, these are the decisions worth slowing down on.

How Wide Should a TV Console Actually Be?

The most common mistake is choosing a console that matches the television width exactly. In practice, a console should be meaningfully wider than the screen — the general guidance used by our showroom team is that the console should be at least 1.2 to 1.5 times the width of the television.

For context, a 65-inch television has a screen width of roughly 145cm. A console at 160–180cm sits well beneath it and provides visual balance on either side. For a 75-inch screen, which is approximately 168cm wide, a console in the 180–200cm range reads as intentional rather than matched by coincidence.

In a 4-room HDB living room, which typically runs 4 to 5 metres wide, a console between 150 and 180cm works well without dominating the wall. Condo living rooms vary more significantly, but the television-to-console ratio remains the more reliable guide than room width alone.

Height matters too. A seated viewing position — the way most households actually watch television — works best when the centre of the screen sits at roughly 100–110cm from the floor. A console at 40–50cm height with a television mounted above it usually lands close to this range, though the exact figure depends on your sofa seat height and how much you recline.

Which Storage Configuration Suits Your Living Room?

Our TV console collection spans several storage configurations, and the right one depends less on aesthetics than on what you are actually storing.

Open Shelving

Open shelving keeps media devices, soundbars, and decorative items accessible and visible. It works well if you are disciplined about what sits on those shelves — it shows everything, which means clutter shows too.

Open lower sections are practical for media players and game consoles that need occasional access.

Closed Cabinets

Closed cabinets with hinged or sliding doors conceal the inevitable accumulation: remote controls, cables, seldom-used devices, and board games.

Sliding doors are worth considering in living rooms where the console sits close to the sofa or a walkway, as hinged doors need clearance to open fully. In Singapore’s humidity, solid cabinet doors also help protect stored electronics from dust and moisture over time.

Drawer Configurations

Drawer configurations suit smaller items — remotes, controllers, instruction booklets — that tend to get lost in open shelving. A single deep drawer beneath a run of cabinets is often more useful than it sounds.

Many consoles combine all three: open central shelving for the media device or soundbar, closed side cabinets for concealed storage, and a shallow drawer or two. This hybrid configuration is, in our experience, what most Singapore households actually need once they think through what they will be storing day to day.

Style Directions: Which Works for Your Living Room?

Matching the console to the room’s existing direction is straightforward if you identify which style register you are working in.

Japandi and Scandinavian-Leaning Rooms

Japandi and Scandinavian-leaning rooms suit consoles in light oak or ash with clean horizontal lines, minimal hardware, and matte or natural finishes.

Low-profile designs — consoles sitting at 40cm or below — reinforce the grounded, breathing-room quality that Japandi interiors are built around. Warm wood tones, push-to-open mechanisms instead of visible handles, and simple panel detailing read correctly in these spaces.

Contemporary Living Rooms

Contemporary living rooms tend to work well with consoles that mix materials: a sintered stone or high-gloss lacquer top surface over a matte or textured cabinet body, brushed metal legs or base rails, and a more geometric profile.

These pieces hold their own in rooms that already have mixed-material dining tables or a statement sofa.

Warmer, Mid-Century Influenced Rooms

Warmer, mid-century influenced rooms — those with walnut-toned furniture, tapered legs elsewhere in the space, or a mix of earthy tones — suit consoles with similar warmth.

Walnut veneer or solid rubberwood with warm brown staining, gentle curves rather than hard geometry, and brass-toned hardware where it appears.

In a multi-generational household, which is common in Singapore, it is worth considering that the television console is used by everyone from young children to grandparents. Soft-close mechanisms on doors and drawers, rounded rather than sharp edges on the console body, and a configuration that keeps frequently used items accessible at standing height are all practical considerations beyond aesthetics alone.

TV Console Sizing for Different Room Configurations

A wall-mounted floating console reads differently from a floor-standing piece, and the choice affects the room more than most homeowners expect.

Floating Consoles

Floating consoles — those fixed directly to the wall with concealed brackets, with no legs touching the floor — create a visual sense of more floor space and suit rooms where the floor material is a feature worth showing.

They also simplify cleaning underneath, which matters in Singapore’s dustier climate months.

Floor-Standing Consoles

Floor-standing consoles with legs have a more grounded, furniture-like presence. In rooms without a feature wall or where the television area needs to feel anchored rather than light, a solid floor-standing piece often reads better.

Consoles on low hairpin legs, block feet, or full plinth bases each carry a different visual weight:

• Hairpin legs suit Japandi and Scandinavian rooms.
• Block or wide feet suit contemporary and transitional styles.
• Full plinths suit more formal or symmetrical living rooms.

For landed properties or larger condos with generous living areas, console configurations above 200cm start to make sense, particularly in an L-shape layout where the television wall is part of a longer decorative feature rather than a single focal point.

How to See the Full Range Before You Decide

Photographs show proportion reasonably well, but they rarely convey the texture of a wood veneer, the weight of a door’s movement, or the actual depth of storage. These are the details that determine whether a console feels well-made or merely adequate.

Our sofa collection and coffee table collection are both on the floor at our showroom, which makes it easier to see how a potential console pairing reads as a set rather than as individual pieces.

Across 2,733+ verified Google reviews, MaxiHome holds a 4.8-star rating from Singapore homeowners — and the feedback we hear most often on living room pieces is about how the showroom visit helped customers catch a sizing issue or a tone mismatch before making a decision they would have had to live with.

If you are furnishing the rest of the entryway at the same time, our shoe cabinet range is worth considering alongside the living room pieces for a consistent finish across the space.

Drop by our showroom at 5 Ubi Link on a quiet weekday or over the weekend — bring your floor plan if you have it, and our team can walk through console sizing against your actual television dimensions and wall length. We are open daily from 11:30 AM to 9 PM, including public holidays. No pressure, no rush — just a more informed decision at the end of it.

The Practical Short Version

If you take one thing from this guide: size the console to the television first, then the room. A console that works for a 65-inch screen in a 4-room HDB sits around 160–180cm wide and 40–50cm tall.

Storage configuration matters more than it looks — think through what you are actually keeping in the unit, not just what looks clean in a showroom photograph.

And the style decision, while real, is usually the most forgiving: a well-proportioned console in a neutral wood tone will read well across most Singapore living rooms without needing a precise match.

The rest is best sorted in person. Our TV console collection covers the main size, style, and storage configurations — see them at the showroom or browse with full dimensions at maxihome.sbs.