Tana Wide Solid Walnut TV Console

Tana Wide Solid Walnut TV Console A TV console built like a sideboard. Because your living room deserves the difference.

Most TV consoles are designed around the screen above them — proportioned to disappear, finished to recede. The Tana Wide takes the opposite position. It is a piece of solid walnut furniture that happens to work as a TV console, with the presence and build quality of a sideboard and the storage engineering of something designed for a room that actually gets used.

Four drawers. Glass sliding centre doors. A raised walnut lip around the top surface. A back panel built with tongue-and-groove joinery and a ventilation grille. NHLA-certified FAS-grade North American black walnut across every structural component. This is not a TV stand. It is a piece of furniture.

FAS Grade — NHLA Certified, >83.3% Clear

The walnut used in the Tana Wide is graded under the NHLA (National Hardwood Lumber Association) standard — the authoritative certification body for North American hardwood classification. FAS grade under this standard requires more than 83.3% of each board surface to be clear of defects: no knots, no sapwood intrusion, no staining.

By comparison, the next grade down (Select) requires only 66.6% clear surface. Standard market furniture typically uses even lower grades without disclosing this. The visible difference accumulates across a large surface like a TV console: more consistent colour, more continuous grain, fewer interruptions in the walnut's natural flow.

The timber is sourced from Wisconsin — a four-season hardwood region where significant temperature variation between summer and winter produces denser, tighter-grained timber with better dimensional stability than wood grown in milder climates. It is one of the most respected walnut-producing regions in North America.

The Raised Lip — A Detail Worth Noticing

The top surface of the Tana Wide is framed by a 2cm raised walnut border on three sides — a detail borrowed from traditional tray-top furniture and executed here in solid walnut continuous with the rest of the cabinet.

It serves two purposes. Practically, it prevents items placed on the surface from being knocked off the edge — relevant for a surface that typically holds speakers, remotes, decorative objects, and anything else that migrates to a TV console over time. Visually, it gives the top of the piece a framed, intentional quality that distinguishes it from a flat slab — the difference between a surface and a considered form.

At 38.5cm of usable display depth behind the lip, the top surface is genuinely generous for styling.

Glass Sliding Doors — Display and Concealment Together

The centre bay of the Tana Wide is fronted by two sliding glass doors .

Glass doors allow the contents of the centre bay to remain visible — media devices, books, decorative storage boxes, a Marshall speaker — while keeping them dust-free and contained. The sliding mechanism requires no swing clearance, keeping the path in front of the console fully open. The door frames are solid walnut; the glass panels are clear.

For those who prefer full concealment, the four flanking drawers handle everything that doesn't need to be seen.

Four Drawers — Two Towers, Two Heights

Where most TV consoles offer a single shallow drawer, the Tana Wide builds two stacked drawer towers into the left and right flanks of the cabinet — four drawers in total, each with an interior of 46 × 28.5 × 6cm.

The shallow drawer depth is intentional. These drawers are sized for the things that actually accumulate around a TV: remote controls, charging cables, HDMI adapters, instruction manuals, batteries, and the miscellaneous small objects that have no other designated home in a living room. Shallow drawers with the full width of the cabinet keep everything findable at a glance without digging.

All four drawers run on solid wood tracks — the same system used across the Tana collection. Solid wood runners become smoother with use, resist humidity-induced binding better than metal in Singapore's climate, and carry load more evenly across the drawer base.

A Back Panel Built to Last

The back panel of most furniture is its weakest point — thin plywood or hardboard nailed into a rebate, prone to warping and eventual separation as humidity cycles through the piece.

The Tana Wide uses a solid walnut back panel constructed with tongue-and-groove (mortise-and-tenon) board joinery — the same technique used in traditional cabinetmaking for panels that need to move with seasonal humidity changes without splitting or gapping. A circular ventilation grille is integrated into the back panel, allowing heat from media equipment stored inside the cabinet to dissipate naturally rather than accumulating in the enclosed bay.

It is a back panel that was designed, not afterthought.

Cable Management Built Into the Form

A routed cable channel runs along the rear edge of the top surface, allowing power and HDMI cables to exit cleanly from the back of the console rather than looping over the edge or being pushed behind. Combined with the ventilation grille in the back panel, the Senu Wide manages cables and heat as part of its architecture rather than as an accessory solution.

Specifications

Measurements may vary ±1cm due to the natural properties of solid wood.

It is a more mechanically demanding door system to build correctly. The result is a console that works better in a smaller space — which describes most Singapore living rooms.

Seven Layers of Finish

The surface of the Tana goes through a seven-stage finishing process: a red-green water-based primer, a nano colour base coat, two layers of sealer, a nano tone-correction layer, a matte nano top coat for colour uniformity, and a final high-transparency matte lacquer. The result is a surface that is fully sealed against moisture and daily contact while reading as close to raw walnut as a protected finish can achieve.

This is meaningfully different from a standard single-coat clear lacquer. The multi-layer system produces more even colour across the full width of the console — compensating for the natural colour variation between walnut boards — and a matte depth that doesn't reflect light the way gloss finishes do in a room with a screen.

Designed for the Singapore Living Room

Four specific decisions make the Tana work better in Singapore's typical residential context:

The 10.5cm floor clearance is sufficient for all current robot vacuum models to pass underneath freely, keeping the area beneath the console cleanable without moving the piece.

The rear cable management cutout routes cables through the back panel and down behind the legs, keeping the wall side of the console neat and allowing the unit to sit close to the skirting board without trapping cables.

The tapered legs are profiled to allow the console to sit flush against the wall without the leg base fouling on the skirting line — a detail that almost no other console on the market addresses.

The ergonomic height positions the top surface at a comfortable level for reaching across from a seated or standing position, with the screen sitting at an appropriate viewing angle above.

Solid Wood Drawer Runners

The TanaTV Console centre drawer runs on solid wood tracks rather than metal slides. Solid wood runners become smoother with use, resist humidity-induced binding better than metal in Singapore's climate, and carry load more evenly across the drawer base. They are quieter, more satisfying to use, and last longer than their metal equivalents.

Specifications

Measurements may vary ±1cm due to the natural properties of solid wood.