Custom Cabinetry Built Into the Wall
Floating consoles, tall flanking towers, hidden bars, and concealed AV bays — engineered into the panel system so your storage looks like architecture instead of furniture. Push-to-open faces, dovetailed drawer boxes, and a 10-year structural warranty.
Why Built-In Cabinetry Beats a Console Every Time
Storage That Looks Like Architecture
Standalone media consoles always read as furniture — a piece sitting in front of a wall. Built-in cabinetry vanishes into the panels themselves, with the same veneer, the same grain match, and the same reveal lines as the rest of the wall. The room feels intentional instead of accumulated.
Handle-Free Faces, Hardware-Grade Insides
Push-to-open soft-close hardware on every door and drawer means no pulls, no knobs, no fingerprints — just a clean veneer face that opens with a tap. Inside, dovetailed maple drawer boxes and Blum full-extension runners outlast the house they're installed in.
Custom Interiors for the Way You Actually Live
Vinyl slot dividers, ventilated AV bays, mirrored bar shelves, jewelry trays, gaming controller cradles — every interior is configured around what's going inside. Not a generic console with three identical drawers, but storage built for your collection.
Where Cabinetry Belongs on a Media Wall
Five integration zones we engineer into every wall — each one doing a different job for the room. Plan them up front and the wall stays beautiful as your collection grows.
Floating Lower Console
Role: Architectural anchor
Tall Tower Cabinets
Role: Symmetrical framing
Backlit Glass Display
Role: Focal showcase
Mirrored Bar Cabinet
Role: Statement piece
Hidden AV Equipment Bay
Role: Completely concealed
Six Cabinet Configurations for Custom Media Walls
Push-to-Open Soft-Close Drawer
Dovetailed maple drawer box on Blum Tandem full-extension runners with push-to-open soft-close action. Hardware-free face in matching veneer or paint. Standard depth 18", custom depths up to 24".
Vinyl Storage Drawer
Slot-divided drawer engineered to hold standard 12" LP records vertically. Each drawer holds 80–120 records with felt-lined dividers to protect sleeves. Heavy-duty 150 lb runners for full collections.
Flip-Down Cabinet Door
Soft-close flip-down door with Blum AVENTOS lift hardware. Stays open at any angle. Reveals a horizontal cavity ideal for a turntable, soundbar bay, or display of objects on top.
Pull-Out Tower Cabinet
Tall full-height cabinet that pulls out as one unit on heavy-duty runners. Adjustable interior shelving holds books, games, bar contents, or pantry-style storage. Up to 96" tall, 200 lb capacity.
Open Display Shelving
Built-in open cubbies integrated with the cabinet boxes — same veneer, same reveal lines. Adjustable shelf positions for books, decor, art, and personal objects on display.
Motorized Lift-Up Top
Console with a motorized lift mechanism that raises a hidden TV or mirror from inside the cabinet. App- or remote-controlled. Used at the foot of beds, in great rooms, or anywhere a TV-on/TV-off transformation is needed.
How to Plan Built-In Cabinetry Like a Designer
Three rules separate built-in cabinetry that disappears into a wall from a console pushed against drywall. Every install we engineer follows them.
Start With What's Going Inside, Not the Box
Every great built-in starts with a list — vinyl, board games, AV gear, bar bottles, kids' chargers — and the cabinet sizes follow from that list. Generic identical drawers waste real estate. Custom interiors sized to the actual contents always feel more intentional and use less space.
Match the Cabinet Faces to the Wall, Not to Other Furniture
The faces should be the same veneer, paint, or finish as the surrounding panels — not a contrasting cabinet color picked from a furniture showroom. Material continuity is what makes the cabinetry disappear into the architecture instead of standing out as a separate piece.
Hide Hardware on Faces · Spend Hardware Inside the Box
Outside: nothing. No pulls, no knobs, no visible hinges — just push-to-open soft-close. Inside: spend the budget on Blum runners, dovetailed drawer boxes, soft-close hinges, and proper ventilation. The face is what you see; the hardware is what you live with.
What to Look for in Built-In Media Wall Cabinetry
Big-box cabinets sag in two years, swell at the joints, and break their hinges by year five. Here's the spec we engineer into every Media Walls USA cabinet — installed or DIY.
- Push-to-open soft-close on every door and drawer
- 3/4" CARB-2 plywood boxes — no particleboard
- Blum Tandem full-extension runners standard
- Custom dimensions to the 1/16" — sized to your room
- Veneer and finish matched to surrounding panels
- Ventilated AV bays with optional silent thermostatic fan
- Steel French cleats rated 800 lbs for floating consoles
- Optional backlit glass shelves with LED accent lighting
- 10-year structural warranty on white-glove installs
- Custom interior dividers — vinyl, jewelry, controllers, more
Recommended Cabinetry for Each Media Wall Style
Each design style supports a different cabinetry recipe. Here's the configuration we recommend for each of our most popular walls.
Modern Wall
Floating lower console + flush-face flanking towers in matching veneer
Cinema Wall
Hidden equipment bay + mirrored bar cabinet + soft-close everything
Slat Wall
Cabinet faces routed with matching slats — disappears into the wall
Luxury Wall
Backlit glass display + mirrored bar + motorized lift-up TV reveal
Stone Ledger Wall
Floating walnut console below stone with push-to-open vinyl drawers
Art Deco Wall
Symmetrical tall towers with mirrored bar interiors and brass accents
Two Ways to Get Your Cabinetry Installed
White-Glove Installation
San Francisco & Alameda County Only- Custom Cabinetry Design — Designer-led layout with cabinet sizes, interior dividers, and finishes tuned to your collection.
- Built-In Carpentry Onsite — Boxes scribed to your wall to the 1/16", veneer grain-matched, hardware installed and adjusted.
- 10-Year Structural Warranty — Full workmanship warranty plus the manufacturer's warranty on every Blum hardware component.
Nationwide DIY Add-On Kit
Ships to All 50 States- Pre-Built Cabinet Boxes — Boxes ship assembled with hardware pre-installed. Drawers slide in, doors hang in minutes.
- Push-to-Open Hardware Included — Soft-close runners, push-to-open mechanisms, French cleats, and shelf pins in every kit.
- Buildable in an Afternoon — Step-by-step video guide. One drill driver and a level — no specialty tools required.
