The Black TV Stand We Live With Every Single Day
The black TV stand in the front room has been there long enough that nobody remembers who actually chose it, only that it arrived, got put in place, and quietly…
The Gray TV Stand We’d Skip Next Time
There’s a gray TV stand that lived in the group chat for a solid week, mostly because it got compared, unfavorably, to a different gray TV stand that one of…
A Floating TV Stand, Meet the Floor
I own six floating TV stands. Not six television sets, not six living rooms that need filling, six actual console units built or marketed under that particular name, and three…
A TV on a Sideboard: Convenient or Awkward?
My sister walked into the living room in October, took one look at the television sitting on top of my new (to me) sideboard, and said, “That looks like the…
Top of a TV Stand: What Sits There Besides the TV
I currently have fourteen objects on top of my television stand. I counted them this morning, out of what I can only call morbid curiosity, and then I stood there…
Sides of a TV Stand: Lamps, Plants and Storage
I own fourteen things right now whose entire job in life is to sit on either side of my TV stand and look like they didn’t cost anything, when at…
What Belongs on Either Side of a TV Stand
I always figured the space on either side of a TV stand was decoration. Filler. The bit you throw a fern in or a stack of coffee table books you…
Floating TV Stand: What Goes Underneath
I own three floating TV stands. Three. Across two houses and one truly regrettable rental in between, I have mounted three separate slabs of wood to three separate walls, and…
A TV Stand Without a TV: Turning It Into Something Else
I got rid of the television in the den in 2019 and left the stand exactly where it was for four months, empty, because I genuinely did not know what…
Filling the Gaps Beside a Living Room TV Stand
I was on the floor on a Sunday afternoon, untangling three HDMI cables and one very confused ethernet cord that had somehow wrapped itself around a lamp base, when it…