A living room with a warm wood-grain aluminum frame wall system, lit shelves, and a long floating console below.

Eureka Ergonomic Lets Designers Specify a Whole Wall in One Aluminum Frame

2026-11-14

Walnut panels, floating shelves, glass cabinets, and a drawer console can now share one aluminum frame. Eureka Ergonomic’s Canvas, an aluminum frame wall system in its Arundel Collection, lets a designer specify an entire wall in one pass.

Dark-framed walnut-grain panels form a study with grille-front glass cabinets beside lit shelving. — Canvas in walnut grain with a dark frame, set up as a study with grille-front glass cabinets on either side of lit shelving.

Canvas grew from a problem founder and CEO Tom Hu sees in most homes. Paneling, shelves, display cabinets, wall storage, and lighting usually arrive as separate choices. Each piece gets added to the wall on its own. “A residence is defined as much by its walls as by its furniture,” Hu says. Canvas, this wall system, is meant to settle those choices at the start, in the same design language used across Arundel.

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Pale oak-grain wall with lit floating shelves running across a library. — Canvas in a pale oak grain, with lit floating shelves across a library wall.

Finishes and glass

Panels come in layered or plain walnut grain, or in a pale oak grain. The frame is available in matte black, espresso brown, graphite grey, or satin platinum. Display cabinets take one of four glass types, including clear and frosted, and the console top comes in two tones.

Hu says the structure stays the same while the look shifts. A walnut grain panel with a dark frame and grey glass, he says, creates a warm, low-lit space for evenings. Oak grain with a pale frame and clear glass brings more daylight into the wall and reads more like a gallery.

Arrangement is the second variable. Designers can combine shelves, glass cabinets, shelf boxes, and closed storage around a television, set them in rows for a library, or group them for a study. Hu links the mix to how much a wall shows. Open shelving displays objects, while more closed storage makes the wall quieter and more architectural. He also warns that a richer material palette calls for tighter composition.

Lighting and the aluminum frame wall system

LED strips run along the floating shelves and inside the glass cabinets. In some layouts they also run along the panel edges. All of the wiring sits inside the frame, so none of it shows. Hu treats lighting as part of the design rather than a finishing step. “It decides how every surface is read, so it cannot be an afterthought,” he says.

Floating drawer unit on walnut-grain panels, with a thin light line at the base. — A floating drawer unit on walnut-grain Canvas panels, with a line of light at the base of the wall.

Sizes and custom work

Standard layouts run from just under 10 feet to nearly 17 feet wide. The frame installs without structural changes to the room. Spaces outside those widths can get a fully custom Canvas wall. Hu sums up the trade-off this way: either route gives the designer a built-in look without rebuilding the wall.

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Showroom study with walnut-grain panels, glass cabinets, lit shelves, and a floating drawer unit. — The Canvas wall system set as a study in Eureka Ergonomic’s High Point showroom, with walnut-grain panels, glass display cabinets, lit floating shelves, and a floating drawer unit.

Canvas is on display at Eureka Ergonomic’s High Point showroom, booth IHFC D440. Designers who want to plan a wall can contact the Eureka Ergonomic team directly or apply to the trade program. For clients, the appeal is simple. One frame, one set of decisions, and a wall that is planned as a whole from the first sketch.

H/T design-milk.com

Frequently asked questions

What is Eureka Ergonomic’s Canvas wall system?

Canvas is an aluminum frame wall system in Eureka Ergonomic’s Arundel Collection that lets a designer specify an entire wall in one pass. It can combine walnut panels, floating shelves, glass cabinets, a drawer console, and lighting within one frame.

What finishes are available for the Canvas wall system?

Panels come in layered or plain walnut grain, or in a pale oak grain. The frame is available in matte black, espresso brown, graphite grey, or satin platinum, and display cabinets offer four glass types, including clear and frosted.

How is lighting integrated into the Canvas aluminum frame wall?

LED strips run along the floating shelves and inside the glass cabinets, and in some layouts they also run along the panel edges. All of the wiring sits inside the frame, so none of it is visible.

What wall widths does the Canvas system accommodate?

Standard Canvas layouts run from just under 10 feet to nearly 17 feet wide. Spaces outside those widths can get a fully custom Canvas wall, and the frame installs without structural changes to the room.