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The Pasadena TV Unit — Whitewashed Oak, Parquet Doors, Black Square Handles — CharlesTed Home
The Pasadena TV Unit — a long, low four-door media console in solid oak with a soft whitewashed finish, parquet-patterned door fronts and bold square black metal handles. Generous 1.93m proportions raised on slim tapered legs with black-dipped tips, sized for larger living rooms and open-plan media walls.
The Pasadena TV Unit brings the kind of cabinetry detail that lifts a media console above the standard flat-fronted, MDF-bodied alternatives that dominate the category — 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 low 49.5cm height keeps the unit proportionate underneath a wall-mounted screen, while the long body sits raised on six tapered legs, giving the console a sense of lift rather than the heavy floor-bound weight of most TV units 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 TV units are built from plain veneered panels designed to disappear into the room, a finish that reads as functional rather than crafted, and treats the media console as a piece of equipment rather than a piece of furniture. 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. Inside, adjustable and removable shelves give the flexibility to size compartments around AV receivers, soundbars, gaming consoles or routed cabling — practical for the way TV units actually get used.
Part of the Pasadena collection — pairs naturally with the matching Pasadena sideboard for a coordinated scheme of whitewashed oak parquet cabinetry across a living and dining room, with shared handle, leg and finish details across both pieces.
