I keep my china cabinet in the living room. We use it as a bar cabinet and keep liquor and glassware in it.

My neighbor has this but she doesn't have China in it. She has books and oictiures

I think it's fine.

Can you separate the hutch from the base? Mount the hutch have the base in the living room?

My grandmother did this, and it never looked weird to me.

We have ours in the living room but use it as a bookcase. We keep our china in our side board and other built-in storage.

I did this. It looks nice and I like it.

You can put anything wherever you'd like!

We are moving into a new house that has the kitchen and former dining room merged into a fabulous renovated kitchen. I love the dining room set we have in our current house (kind of a rustic cherry/antique black finish) and hate to get rid of it. The table will fit in the table space of the new house, but I'm afraid the china cabinet (really a credenza and hutch for glassware/crystal) will overpower the space, and I have a couple other smaller pieces I'd like to have in the table space. Do you think it's weird to put the china cabinet in the living room somewhere (in a corner). It definitely will fit and it matches the living room furniture in color/style.