Having a dedicated space designed for playing or listening to music is an idea that has grown in popularity since the pandemic and continues to do so today. These music room and listening room design trends provide musicians and audiophiles alike a creative space for writing, jamming, focused music listening, experimenting with gear, and developing ideas among others. In this article, we’ll discuss how our furniture can be integrated into any design space where music is made or consumed. This includes displaying instruments, providing access to gear and media such as pedalboards and vinyl, and also discussing our custom built-ins designed for larger collections of instruments, amplifiers, and more. We’ll also share some examples of how our handcrafted designs inspire musicians to pick up their instruments more without sacrificing safety and design whether it’s used in a dedicated music room or throughout the rest of the home.
Music Room Decor: Hanging a Guitar
If you’re an interior designer looking to source a guitar wall hanger with a clean, cohesive design that complements an existing design space, or a guitar player with multiple instruments that require humidification and easy access, we offer handcrafted solutions for wall-mounting instruments in music rooms and homes that achieve the needs of any client.
The Hyla Luxury Guitar Hanger
The Hyla Guitar Hanger is our thoughtfully designed guitar accessory for easily wall-mounting your favorite instruments. With versatility at its core, its solid wood rotating puck accommodates a variety of headstock shapes from asymmetrical Telecasters & Firebirds to traditional shapes and others. Furthermore, it features leather-wrapped steel posts, which provide a safe padding and material for all of your guitar’s finishes. Lastly, this stylish guitar wall mount includes a set of anchors that can be used alternatively for stud-mounting. Thus providing safe suspension and display of a variety of solid-body guitars. For an in-depth look at the Hyla’s design, materials, and features, check out this article on our luxury guitar wall hangers.
The Nashville Guitar Display Case
The Nashville Guitar Habitat is the ideal solution if you’re looking to both display and preserve one or two instruments in a humidified environment. This wall-mount guitar display utilizes our Hyla Hanger to showcase your guitars as a work of art. Featuring dimmable LED lighting and an optional 1.5q active humidifier no louder than a laptop fan, this unobtrusive display cabinet makes a great addition to the avid collector’s music room for those unique or special guitars. With its high design intent, it can also live in any room of the home where you’re likely to feel inspired to play. To learn more about how these handcrafted displays including their components and design materials, check out this article on our guitar wall mounts.
Music Room Furniture: Displaying Your Guitars
If at the center of your music room design is a collection of guitars and other stringed instruments that require a solution for both displaying and easy access, the Guitar Habitat and our flagship model Guitar Estate provide the best solution that encompasses all of the above. These instrument display cabinets often referred to as guitar humidors contain the additional value of providing a humidified environment to safely preserve your collection year-round.
The Best Luxury Guitar Stand For Any Room
Before we get into our larger freestanding music room furniture, let’s take a quick look at the Olin Guitar Stand display. This sleek design stand makes a great addition to any of our furniture for easily accessing a few choice instruments whether you’re tracking in your recording studio or during jam sessions in your music room with friends. Thanks to its clean, refined design, the Olin has the unique ability to elevate any room’s design that it lives in. Available in a variety of Pennsylvania hardwoods, this workhorse guitar stand safely displays up to four instruments ranging from ukuleles and mandolins to electric guitars and jumbo acoustics. Intentionally crafted with natural cork-lined rails and neck rests, the Olin is sure to be the perfect guitar accessory for those unwilling to sacrifice aesthetics for functionality in their music room or studio. Check out our article on the Olin that highlights the versatility of our best multi-guitar rack stand.
Designer-Friendly Aesthetics & Gear-Focused Design
For the interior designer sourcing furniture for a larger music room, our handcrafted cabinets (and others previously mentioned) are available in a variety of hardwoods and can be customized with your choice of finishes and hardware, thus retaining a cohesive aesthetic regardless of its placement in the home. Additionally, both models provide a variety of storage space for stowing away cables and other accessories that are often regarded as an eye sore. The custom-painted Guitar Habitat shown below is the guitar humidor model that founded our business over a decade ago. Since then, it has provided guitar players and collectors around the world access to their instruments as they live safely in a humidified environment throughout the year. To learn more about the importance of guitar humidity and preserving instruments, check out our post, Everything You Need To Know About Humidifying A Guitar.
Guitar Storage & Accessibility Meets High Design
For the serious musician and gear collector, the Guitar Estate offers a customizable credenza below its humidified guitar display cabinet, which can be configured with your choice of sliding amplifier trays with direct power, solid wood drawers, adjustable shelves, or built-in removable pedalboards. By customizing the Guitar Estate to your needs, this handcrafted piece that accommodates 4-10 instruments can live as the epicenter of your music room, providing unparalleled access, power, and humidification to inspire creativity whenever you enter the room. To learn more about our world-class guitar humidors and other cabinets, take a look at our in-depth article that encompasses our collection of guitar display cases.
Listening Rooms: Custom Media Storage & More
Available for pre-order this Fall, our newly designed Sound Habitat bridges the gap between the musician and casual audiophile. This customizable freestanding credenza provides a timeless design and ample storage space offered in a variety of sizes for any collector. With options including sliding amp trays, drawers, pedalboard storage, or adjustable shelves, the Sound Habitat will comfortably house your books, magazines, vinyl records, music gear, and more. Featuring solid wood pocket doors and built-in power, this media & gear storage cabinet is designed to live in any music listening room or living space with the ability to easily hide away or access your turntable, amp, or other gear when the moment demands music.
To learn more about the Sound Habitat and other custom-designed pieces like the ones shown above, check out our blog on audiophile furniture and other listening room designs.
Custom Built-ins For Music Rooms, Listening Rooms, and other Design Spaces
To conclude this article on music room furniture and storage solutions, we’ll quickly discuss the benefits of our built-ins. If you’re looking for a completely custom design that encompasses preservation, display, storage, power, and accessibility as a permanent solution within your home or studio, built-ins are the ideal solution. For the past decade, we’ve worked directly with customers as well as interior & architectural design firms to provide premier build quality cabinetry and unique designs from our custom shop. As a small team of artisans, design experts, and musicians, we possess the expertise, passion, and technology to design and craft both custom built-ins and freestanding furniture of any size. From modified Guitar Estates with trim and molding matched to your existing cabinetry to custom double-decker humidified guitar display cabinets for large guitar collections, unlike traditional millworkers and contractors, we have the knowledge and experience to ensure that any collection of instruments is beautifully and safely preserved in the ideal humidified environment longterm. To learn more about our custom built-ins or to set up a call with our in-house design team, click the link below.
Conclusion: Music Room Design Furniture From American Music Furniture Co.
At AMF, we’re passionate about designing and handcrafting furniture that creates a stronger bond between you and your instruments. From luxury guitar wall hangers to large custom built-ins, each one is designed with the intention of living not only within a music or listening room but to complement any space within your home. By utilizing the highest quality components and materials, our furniture ensures that your instruments are properly preserved for generations to come. Whether you’re working with an interior designer on a renovation or new build, or perhaps designing your own music room at home, our team will work to design, build, and ship your bespoke furniture worldwide to complete your ideal music & listening rooms. To speak directly with our team, contact us today by calling 267-272-2460 or filling out our design inquiry form here.