CharlesTed Home Pasadena Modern Whitewashed Oak Sideboard with Parquet Doors | 4 Door Storage Cabinet

The Pasadena — a four-door sideboard in solid oak with a soft whitewashed finish, parquet-patterned door fronts and bold square black metal handles. Substantial 1.93m proportions raised on slim tapered legs with black-dipped tips, sized for dining rooms, hallways and larger living spaces.

The Pasadena brings the kind of cabinetry detail that lifts a sideboard above standard flat-fronted alternatives — each of the four door fronts is built from small parquet squares laid in alternating grain directions, the same surface vocabulary as antique French herringbone flooring and the patchwork-oak cabinetry of contemporary makers like Pinch and Rose Uniacke. The whitewashed finish is brushed back into the grain rather than painted over the top, leaving the natural texture and tonal variation of the oak visible through the soft chalky wash, while the slim square black metal handles and black-dipped tapered feet introduce two precise points of graphic contrast. The body sits raised on six tapered legs, giving the substantial cabinet a sense of lift rather than the heavy plinth-on-the-floor weight of most storage pieces of this scale.

What sets it apart

The detail that makes it different

The parquet door fronts are the move that gives the Pasadena its specific character — most whitewashed oak sideboards are built from plain vertical-grain panels, a finish that reads as functional rather than crafted. The patchwork of small oak squares catches light differently across each tile depending on grain direction, creating a quiet checkerboard rhythm across the front of the cabinet that a flat panel cannot achieve, and the geometric square handles pick up and echo the same square module at a smaller scale. Whitewashed parquet oak sits in the same material family as our wider whitewashed oak collection — pieces designed to bring tonal warmth and grain-led texture to a room without the heaviness of darker timbers.