Space Age Closets designs and installs custom entertainment centres in Toronto and the GTA, built-in wall units, custom-built to measure, that fit your wall exactly, hide the electronics and wiring behind doors, and put your favourite pieces under proper lighting. Whether you live in a condo, house or apartment, floor space is expensive; a custom entertainment centre uses your vertical space instead of eating the floor.
Ready-made says “it’ll do”, built-in says “meant to be here”
We’ve all seen the ready-made media unit that almost fits: a gap on one side, a baseboard it can’t sit against, shelves that don’t match anything else in the room. It’ll do. A custom entertainment centre is the opposite, designed for your wall’s exact width and height, around your ceiling line, outlets and vents, so it looks like the house was built with it in mind. Like any built-in storage system, that fit is the whole point.
Somewhere for the wires to go
Flat-screen televisions changed the living room, but they didn’t get rid of the boxes, receivers, consoles, modems, speakers, and the cable tangle behind them. A custom unit is the tidiest answer we know: components live in closed sections, wiring runs through pass-throughs planned at the design stage, and the wall of clutter becomes a wall of cabinetry. Neatening and hiding home electronics is the single most common reason Toronto clients ask us for an entertainment centre.
Once the necessities are hidden away, there’s room for the things you actually want to look at. A custom unit can be designed to accommodate a particular treasure, a vase, a sculpture, a signed jersey, with a niche sized and lit for exactly that piece.
Display and lighting
Lighting matters in a wall unit for two reasons: it illuminates the collectibles you’re displaying, and it directs the eye to the focal point of the room. LEDs are the optimal choice today, cool-running, long-lived, and available as puck lights over shelves or strips washing down a display bay. A lit display section reads as furniture-store polish, and it’s a small line on the project, not a renovation of its own.
The electric fireplace option
A feature we often add to our built-ins is an electric fireplace. As the focal point of a living or dining room, it brings the warmth and coziness of a hearth without a gas line or venting, which matters in condos and apartments, where gas fireplaces often aren’t allowed. We use easy-to-install plug-in units that let you control the heat in the room, and because they’re not permanent infrastructure, they can move with you.
Making it work in a condo
Condo living rooms are where custom entertainment centres earn their keep. When there’s one usable wall, that wall has to do everything: television, storage, display, sometimes a desk or a bar section. Building to the ceiling captures storage a freestanding unit wastes, and shallow-depth sections keep the room feeling open. Our custom built-in wall units in Toronto page shows how the same approach handles media walls, libraries and display cabinetry across the GTA.
Ready to be entertained?
When you’re ready to enhance your home with a custom entertainment centre, talk to the people who will actually build it. Space Age Closets & Custom Cabinetry has designed, built and installed custom cabinetry in Toronto since 1989. Call (647) 394-7557 or book a free in-home design consultation.
Custom Entertainment Centre Questions, Answered
Will a custom entertainment centre work in a small condo?
Often better than in a house, because it’s built to your wall’s exact dimensions, it captures vertical space a freestanding unit wastes and can be kept shallow so the room stays open. One built-in wall can handle TV, storage and display in a footprint a sofa table would envy.
How does a built-in unit hide all the wiring?
The wiring is planned before the unit is built: components sit in closed sections, cables run through pass-throughs cut at the design stage, and outlets end up inside the cabinetry instead of behind it. Nothing dangles, and adding a device later means opening a door, not pulling the unit off the wall.
Can the TV be built into the unit itself?
Yes. We design the TV bay around your screen size, either wall-mounted inside a recess or sitting on a fixed shelf, so the cabinetry frames the television instead of competing with it. Tell your designer if you’re planning a larger screen later; the bay can be sized for the upgrade now.
What kind of lighting goes into a display wall unit?
LED puck lights or strips, almost always. They run cool near your collectibles, last for years, and can be aimed to highlight individual pieces or wash a whole bay. Lighting is also what draws the eye and makes the unit the focal point of the room.
Can an electric fireplace go inside a custom wall unit?
Yes, it’s one of our most requested features. We build the unit around a plug-in electric fireplace, which needs no gas line or venting, gives you controllable heat, and is welcome in condos and apartments where gas fireplaces often aren’t permitted.
