NOW is the time to start stocking up on tableware for holiday entertaining, but where to store it all? A good sideboard will hold everything from dinnerware, silver and glassware to bottles of wine. And in dining rooms that double as living rooms, some of these sideboards can be used as home entertainment centers as well.

1. Privacy, shown in natural oak, is 71 inches long, 28 inches high and 21 ½ inches deep. It can be made in other sizes, and is available in other finishes; it is $6,200 as shown from Property, 14 Wooster Street (Canal Street), (917) 237-0123 or propertyfurniture.com.

2. Ligne Roset’s Cineline, designed by Patrick Pagnon and Claude Pelhaître, has an ebony-stained oak veneer and a glass sliding door that conceals adjustable shelves. It is 86 ½ inches long, 33 inches high and 19 ¾ inches deep; $3,735 from (212) 358-9204 or ligne-roset-usa.com.

3. The FK 150 Sideboard from Suite New York, in white with olive wood, 59 inches long by 18 inches wide by 28 inches high is $7,650 from (212) 421-3300 or suiteny.com.

4. CB2’s Indie Credenza, which has a dark-stained wood veneer, is 60 inches long, 30 inches high and 18 inches deep; $649 from (800) 606-6252 or cb2.com.

5. The 78-inch-long Claremont Sideboard from Williams-Sonoma Home is mahogany-stained wood with shelves and two drawers; $3,200 from (888) 922-4108 or wshome.com.

6. BoConcept’s sideboard is 60 ¾ inches long, 29 1/4 inches high and 16 ½ inches deep, and comes in various finishes; $1,199 in walnut veneer (or $1,199 in white lacquer). For locations: (888) 616-3620 or boconcept.com.

7. The French walnut Sliding Door Console is 73 inches long, 20 inches deep and 27 inches high; $9,600 from Hudson Furniture, 433 West 14th Street (11th Avenue), (212) 645-7800 or hudsonfurnitureinc.com.

8. Maurice Villency’s Ona sideboard is 95 inches long, 24 inches deep and 29 inches high, and comes in 20 different finishes; $6,795 from (212) 725-4840 or villency.com.

9. The Wrongwoods 102 ½-inch-long yellow-and-red plywood sideboard is decorated with wood-block prints and has sliding doors. It also comes with glass sliding doors, and in white or green-and-white; $7,500 from (866) 888-6677 or mossonline.com.