[qtlc]

Hi guys.
Longtime lurker. After some advice please.
Think I've finally settled on the Alphason abr1100 stand as it looks amazing. Wanting to get the black one to go with this fireplace surround Black Granite Back Panel & Hearth, 5019676017057

Can anyone recommend some furniture to match it? We're looking for some sort of sideboard/display cabinet unit so we can have a drinks cabinet with lighting in the glass part and store stuff behind doors/drawers in the rest of it.

Problem is, can't find decent looking black gear. Found an ikea cabinet IKEA | Cabinets & sideboards | Display cabinets | LINNARP | Bookcase with glass door and the plan was to use some privacy film to block out some of the windows so store stuff behind and have the open ones with bottles behind. Anyway, when viewing it in Ikea despite it being called black it's not the same black as the Billy black, more like their black brown so it won't match as well at all.

Anyway, people who have the Alphason black stand if you have any suggestions for matching furniture it would be much appreciated. What do you guys use? Thanks in advance. Any feedback in general on the stand too from owners would be great. Thanks.

[Tony Ounsworth]

I sort of had this dilemma in reverse. We had wooden living room furniture (mainly a Mango coffee table, but also wood laminate floors, a bookcase etc) and I was shopping around for matching AV stands, but in the end I thought it might be a bit much having everything the same. So I kind of went for the Black abr1100 not because it matched my furniture, but because it matched my TV, in other words I settled on a sort of "Right - that's the AV area, it doesn't have to match the room" philosophy.

Anyway, that doesn't really answer your question, but two further points:

1) It's a really nice stand
2) It's not actually 100% black. It has a faint glittery effect in the finish which isn't really apparent in photographs

Mine is dismantled and living in the loft at the moment, as I moved house and it wouldn't fit where I wanted the telly to go. Now I have the equally excellent corner unit from the same range:

Of course, you know what else goes with black, don't you? White!