BH | Studio Ruthin Panelled 4-Door Sideboard

Panelled doors, a flat board held in a frame, are one of the simplest and longest-lived ideas in cabinetmaking, used on cupboards and wardrobes since the late Middle Ages because the panel can move with the seasons without cracking. Laid in horizontal bands, they give a long cabinet a calm, ordered look.

This sideboard has four doors, each divided into horizontal panels that step slightly in and out, with slim black pulls set along the centre doors. The case is engineered wood under a hard-wearing laminate finish in a pale, grey-washed oak tone, and it stands on tapered legs with non-marking caps to protect the floor. Behind the doors, the shelves adjust, so table linens, serving pieces, a printer or a stack of media equipment each get the height they need. It is rated to hold 176 lbs, and assembly is required.

It suits a Scandinavian-leaning dining room as a buffet, with pale floors and linen curtains, or a hallway as storage for gloves, scarves and the dog's things. For a living room it is a low media console for a television on top or on the wall above, baskets and books either side, and in a bedroom it makes a lovely low dresser. The grey-washed wood looks calm with white, sage and a paper pendant.