Cabinets & Storage

Designer Cabinets and Storage Furniture

Well-designed storage furniture helps keep an interior organised without treating practicality as an afterthought. Sideboards, cabinets, TV units and wardrobes can provide substantial everyday storage while also contributing material, proportion and architectural structure to the room.

RB12's collection of designer cabinets and storage furniture brings together Scandinavian, Italian and contemporary European design from Nova Nook, Bolia, Novamobili, Cinquanta3, Caso Furniture, Cattelan Italia, Tamo Design, Kico and Design House Stockholm.

The collection ranges from low living-room storage and television cabinets to statement dining-room sideboards, glass display cabinets and large configurable wardrobes for the bedroom.

Designer Sideboards

A designer sideboard provides enclosed storage without the height of a full cabinet, making it particularly versatile across living rooms, dining rooms and hallways.

Lower proportions create a useful surface for lighting, artwork and decorative objects while drawers, cupboards and shelving keep everyday items out of sight.

The Bolia Daia Sideboard, designed by Ramos Bassols, combines open areas and generous drawer storage within a distinctive geometric structure. It is available in several widths, finishes and drawer configurations.

For another Scandinavian approach, the Bolia Cana Sideboard brings the lighter material language of the Cana collection into a practical storage piece.

Italian Designer Sideboards

Italian sideboards often take a more architectural approach, using ceramic, glass, metal and lacquered surfaces to make storage furniture an important visual element within the room.

Cattelan Italia offers several statement sideboards within the RB12 collection. The Cattelan Italia Metropol Sideboard can be specified with a wide selection of ceramic door finishes, allowing the front of the cabinet to become a major decorative surface.

These larger Italian designs work particularly well in dining rooms and open-plan living spaces where the sideboard needs enough visual presence to relate to substantial dining tables and surrounding architecture.

Scandinavian Sideboards

Scandinavian storage furniture generally relies on simpler proportions, timber, restrained finishes and carefully resolved details.

Bolia forms one of the largest sideboard collections at RB12, with designs including the Daia Sideboard, Cord Sideboard and Cana Sideboard.

Design House Stockholm provides another distinctive Scandinavian interpretation through the Air Sideboard. Designed by Mathieu Gustafsson, Air combines oak with woven rattan to create semi-transparent storage that feels visually lighter than a conventional solid cabinet.

The Design House Stockholm Layer Sideboard offers another contemporary Nordic option for living and dining spaces.

Contemporary Cabinets

RB12's dedicated cabinet collection includes TV cabinets, display cabinets, drinks storage and freestanding designs for living rooms, dining spaces and other interiors.

Unlike a low sideboard, a taller cabinet can make more efficient use of vertical space. Glass or semi-open designs can also combine storage with display, allowing selected objects, tableware or books to remain visible without leaving every item exposed.

The Bolia Cana Display Cabinet carries the visual language of the wider Cana collection into a taller storage format, providing an alternative to a conventional solid-front cabinet.

TV Cabinets and Media Storage

Television cabinets and low media units provide storage for technology while helping reduce visual clutter around the screen.

Nova Nook forms the largest part of the current Cabinets & Storage category and offers an extensive choice of contemporary TV cabinets.

The Nova Nook ANSO Two-Door TV Cabinet combines enclosed cupboards with drawer storage, providing a dedicated media unit rather than simply placing the television on a conventional sideboard.

Low media furniture can work particularly well beneath wall-mounted televisions, helping balance the screen visually while providing storage for accessories, cables and other living-room essentials.

Display Cabinets

Display cabinets offer a compromise between fully open shelving and completely enclosed storage. Glass, woven fronts and open sections allow selected objects to remain visible while helping the overall room feel organised.

The Bolia Cana Display Cabinet is particularly suited to Scandinavian interiors where natural materials and lighter visual proportions are preferred.

Display storage can work well for glassware and tableware in a dining room or for books, ceramics and decorative objects within a living space.

Designer Wardrobes

For larger-scale bedroom storage, RB12's designer wardrobe collection includes hinged, sliding and coplanar-door systems from specialist European furniture brands.

Novamobili currently forms the largest wardrobe range at RB12, alongside Cinquanta3, Kico and selected nursery furniture.

The Novamobili Crystal Hinged Door Wardrobe provides a highly configurable contemporary Italian storage system, demonstrating how a wardrobe can be specified around both the architecture of the room and the storage required inside.

Sliding Door Wardrobes

Sliding wardrobes can be particularly useful where there is limited clearance in front of the furniture because the doors do not project into the room when opened.

They work especially well across longer bedroom walls and can create a cleaner, more continuous architectural appearance than several individual freestanding cabinets.

RB12's wardrobe collection includes sliding systems from Novamobili and Cinquanta3, with different front finishes, internal configurations and dimensions available depending on the individual collection.

Hinged Door Wardrobes

Hinged wardrobes provide full access to individual sections of the cabinet and remain one of the most versatile wardrobe formats.

The Novamobili Crystal Hinged Door Wardrobe demonstrates how a traditional hinged format can be combined with a more contemporary finish and highly considered internal organisation.

Hinged designs are particularly suitable where there is enough floor space in front of the wardrobe for the doors to open comfortably.

Storage Furniture for Living Rooms

Living-room storage should provide enough capacity for everyday items without making the room feel dominated by cabinetry.

Low sideboards and TV units work particularly well beneath artwork or wall-mounted televisions, while taller cabinets can occupy narrower sections of wall where floor width is limited.

Pair storage furniture with RB12's living room furniture, including sofas, armchairs and coffee tables, to create a more complete arrangement rather than selecting each piece independently.

Storage Furniture for Dining Rooms

A sideboard or cabinet can be one of the most useful additions to a dining room. It provides storage for tableware, glasses and serving pieces while also creating a surface for lamps, artwork and objects.

A larger Italian design such as the Cattelan Italia Metropol Sideboard can create a strong architectural counterpoint to a dining table, while lighter Scandinavian storage such as the Design House Stockholm Air Sideboard provides a softer alternative.

Explore RB12's wider designer dining room furniture to coordinate storage with dining tables and chairs.

Storage Furniture for Bedrooms

Bedroom storage needs to combine substantial capacity with a calm appearance. Large wardrobes provide the principal hanging and folded-clothing storage, while lower pieces can complement the bed without filling every available wall.

Explore wardrobes alongside RB12's wider bedroom furniture, including beds, bedside tables and chests of drawers.

Where a complete storage system is being planned, considering internal organisation at the same time as the external finish can make the finished wardrobe considerably more useful.

Sideboard or Cabinet: Which Should You Choose?

A sideboard is generally lower and wider, making it useful where you need substantial storage while retaining a surface above for lighting, artwork or decorative objects.

A cabinet usually uses more vertical space and can therefore provide useful storage where wall width is limited. Display cabinets can also keep selected objects visible behind glass or more open fronts.

The right choice depends on what needs to be stored and the proportions of the room rather than one format being inherently better than the other.

How to Choose Storage Furniture

Begin with what you actually need to store. Tableware requires different internal dimensions from media equipment, clothing, books or smaller everyday objects.

Next, measure the available width, height and depth carefully. Remember to allow adequate space for hinged doors and drawers to open, and consider circulation around the furniture.

Material and finish should then relate to the wider room. Timber introduces warmth, lacquer creates a cleaner contemporary surface, glass can reduce visual weight, while ceramic and stone finishes can make larger sideboards feel more architectural.

Storage for Small Spaces

Smaller rooms benefit from storage that uses available space efficiently without making the interior feel crowded.

A taller cabinet may provide greater capacity than a wide sideboard where wall width is limited, while sliding wardrobes avoid projecting doors in tighter bedrooms.

Furniture raised on visible legs can also create a lighter appearance by allowing more of the floor to remain visible beneath the cabinet.

Storage for Open-Plan Interiors

In open-plan spaces, cabinets and sideboards can help establish different functional zones without introducing physical walls.

A substantial sideboard can visually separate dining and living areas while providing storage accessible from the main room. Lower storage also preserves longer sightlines across the space compared with tall cabinetry.

Choosing finishes that relate to surrounding dining tables, sofas and flooring can help the storage feel integrated rather than added later.

Complete the Storage with Shelving

Closed cabinets are particularly effective when balanced with some open storage. RB12's wider shelving collection includes shelving and bookcases for books, decorative objects and items that benefit from remaining visible.

Combining open shelving with enclosed cabinets allows everyday clutter to remain hidden while more decorative possessions become part of the interior.

Shop Designer Cabinets and Storage Furniture at RB12

RB12 offers a curated collection of designer cabinets and storage furniture in the UK, including sideboards, cabinets and TV units and wardrobes for contemporary living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms.

Explore Scandinavian and Italian storage furniture from Nova Nook, Bolia, Novamobili, Cattelan Italia, Design House Stockholm, Tamo Design and other European furniture brands.