For a lot of Australian households, the living room is the room that said yes to everything. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 36% of employed Australians usually worked from home in August 2025, and the living room took most of that on. Getting it back starts with the right furniture.
The piece of furniture holding it all together
A TV unit is a low-profile storage and display unit designed to house a television and the equipment around it. That definition undersells what it actually does in a busy household. The living room absorbed years of change without a single renovation to show for it.
For many households, that shift is most visible in the furniture. Browsing the full range of TV units available today, the change is clear: more cable management, more closed storage, and considerably more surface space than units from a decade ago.
Storage the living room never used to need
Think about what a living room holds now that it didn’t ten years ago. A router and its cables. Gaming controllers. A tablet for the kids. Charging cables for all of it.
A TV unit that only stores DVDs and a set-top box is already behind the times. The living room’s storage needs changed without anyone making a deliberate decision about it, and the TV unit either solves that problem or makes it worse.
Scale, proportion and the wall behind your screen
Size is the decision most people get wrong, usually by going too small. A TV unit should be wider than the screen sitting on it, extending at least a few centimetres on either side. The centre of the screen should sit at or just below eye level when seated.
For larger rooms or longer walls, Amart’s Signature entertainment unit collection offers a wall-spanning configuration with a mix of open shelving and closed cabinetry. That combination handles scale without making the room feel cluttered.
How finish ties a multi-use room together
The finish on a TV unit does more visual work than most people expect. In a room holding a desk setup, gaming gear, kids’ toys and a sofa, the TV unit sits on the longest wall and pulls everything together. Timber reads as warm and settled. White and light oak suit smaller rooms or spaces with limited natural light.
Black and charcoal add contrast and tend to anchor rooms with a lot going on. Whatever the finish, it needs to connect to the rest of the living room furniture rather than work against it.
Getting the room back
The living room did not change overnight. It shifted gradually, one device and one new habit at a time, until the room was doing far more than anyone planned for. Getting it back to feeling considered starts with the furniture doing its job properly.
Founded in Brisbane in 1970, Amart has grown to over 65 stores across Australia with a range of over 2,000 products. In-store teams are on hand to help match the right piece to the room, and the full range is available online for browsing before you visit.
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