Media Room Furniture Alternatives

If you're shopping for media room furniture popping with personality, softly sophisticated, or filled with functionality yet nothing you've seen has you cooing, disregard the usual entertainment room furnishings. Stroll through the bedroom, dining room, living room, and kitchen showrooms. Even take a hike through outdoor furniture set ups. Be amazed by the gems hidden in rooms unassociated with the media room. Does this Spark an idea?

Bedroom Dresser/Chest of Drawers

Put a 50-plus inch flat screen TV, DVD player, and other entertainment components on a double or triple dresser (sans mirrors) and instantly own a gorgeous entertainment center. Drill a hole in back of a drawer for power cords. If you hang your TV on the wall and stash music and everything else inside the drawers, the dresser top becomes a spacious food serving counter and bar. If you like the TV setting higher, but not necessarily on the wall, a chest of drawers will do the job.

Dining Room Buffet/Server

A buffet makes a functional entertainment center. Normally used to store china and silver, a buffet in the media room will hold a large flat screen TV, hide entertainment equipment, and serve as a bar. Buffets come in a variety of woods and finishes.

Servers are smaller than buffets, but fill the same purpose. Install the TV on the wall then place the server beneath it. The countertop on some servers opens then lies flat to form two, side serving counters. The heat and water-resistant well in the center holds food or drink, while the casters make moving it about easy.

Pub Tables

Quirky, funky, elegant, or charming no matter how you present counter height (or taller) tables and chairs, pub furniture works great in a large room mixed with sofas and lounge chairs or in smaller rooms as the sole seating. Round or square, pub tables are smaller and more intimate whether placed in corners or in the middle of the room. Patio pub sets make great media room furniture. The wide swivel seats fit guests with larger bottoms and the backs and arm rests are comfortable. Do give the baker's racks and jelly cabinets a look.

Living Room Bunching tables

Grab some bunching accent tables for use as separate drink and snack tables. Bunching tables come in sets of three stacked one on top of the other. They are particularly useful for entertaining in media rooms with limited space. Place a table next to a chair or at each side of a sofa or love seat for guests to place food and drinks.

Bird Baths

Whether your media room decorating tastes run from cosmopolitan to art deco, inexpensive bird baths will add interest. Use car paint to spray-paint one or several with gleaming sky blue, inky black, or the color of your choice then place in corners on small polka dot or checkered rugs. Fill one or more with water then add floating candles, or use them to hold bottled drinks covered with ice, snack bowls, ice buckets, or bushy plants. Patio bistro sets and Old World garden benches in the garden center shouldn't be overlooked.