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Living room interior with Gurjan veneer wall unit

Warm, layered social spaces

Living Room

The room that takes the most traffic and the most scrutiny. Surfaces here need to survive daily use while still being the thing guests notice first.

Gallery

Where these materials land

Illustrative spaces showing how each panel type is typically used.

Living Room project 1
Living Room project 2
Living Room project 3
Living Room project 4
Living Room project 5
Living Room project 6

Specifying for this space

What to get right

Three things that decide whether the joinery in this room still looks right in five years.

  • Media walls take abuse

    Cable routing, heat from equipment and constant handling. Specify a wipeable finish and leave service access.

  • Match the run

    A long wall of storage reads as one object. A Gurjan face keeps the surface even so the run does not show its joints.

  • Mind the span

    Display shelving over about 900 mm wants a block board rather than plywood, or it will sag within a year or two.

Planning a space like this?

Talk it through with someone who knows the material.