Someone puts a picture of a white corner unit in the group chat about once every semester and we’re right back into it again. It’s not because anyone is anti it particularly, more we’ve all bought one. Loathed it quietly. Moved on and then half-remembered it enough to fall back in love six months later like it owes us money.
The concept itself sells itself. That wasted triangle bit of living room that nothing else will fill. The bit your sofa arm has been giving you sorry eyes ever since you got it.
Fits a bookshelf in there and suddenly your eyes skip right over it every time they scan the room.
White ones are best because white tries to fade into the walls and it works until you realise the whole thing has subtly dyed itself the colour of dehydration after a year next to the radiator.
Nobody tells you that part. We learnt independently over weeks and laughed about how it was clearly our individual rubbish luck.
The truth is what they’re good for on a day-to-day basis is nowhere specified really. The place all the laptop chargers and remote controls go to die without anyone having to formally assign it as its new home. Furniture by dominos effect. You buy it thinking, shelves here for books, shelves there for the router, useful etc. before two weeks have passed it’s shoved whatever the rest of your house needs hidden that month. It’s our domestic equivalent of clingfilm. Keeps everything else together without having to ask it too.
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The only real debate, that has now been set in stone for some time now, is open shelf versus door-ed version and even then that only comes up when someone’s child decides to decorate it with permanent marker and the open shelf advocates fall suspiciously silent for a few days. Doors. Doors solve all the problems by hiding them. Open shelvesasks you to admire the mess. Which is great if the mess is a artfully curated mug selection, and less so when your charging cables are being tying themselves into knots. Both have points.
We’ve sat on both sides of the fence so long neither side will ever know victory, we just rotate who gets to feel superior based on the mood of what’s displayed.
Then you factor in the classics, the sizing issue.
Everyones falls for it.
It looks cute and tiny in the store. Afraid to take up too much space. Stick it in your corner at home and watch it decide to consume a third of the room because fuck me your corner isn’t exactly a right angle like the model on display made it look. Oh we left ours half a centimetre sticking out because the skirting board was like about it and we called it character.
In the end it never comes to a resolution. After a while we just accept that’s how it’s going to be. The one thing we will all say once a month is that a good corner unit earns its keep within a week or it doesn’t deserve the corner. And a bad one will always look like it forgot it was supposed to be furniture and came too far. Beyond that doors or shelves we can yell about semantics forever.
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