A console table in your entryway is guaranteed to elevate your entire home every single time. I’ll stand by that statement until I die.
What is a console table anyway?
What is a console table anyway? It’s a very versatile table that is long and skinny and are also known as entryway tables or sofa tables. They’re all the same thing and but can be used in a number of ways and in just about any room in your home. Most people use them as entryway tables because they’re just the thing to store keys, sunglasses and put everything down in one place when you come home.
Console tables are also great for hallways, entryways, living rooms both as a console for a television or behind a sofa and they can be used in the dining room as a place to set up food, plates and utensils. They can even be used in bedrooms and bathrooms to display useful or pretty bits and pieces.
What do you use them for?
I’m obsessed by console tables and use them in most rooms where possible because they can almost disappear into the room leaving the focus on the décor you want to display whilst being a great place to store things in baskets or boxes, out of the way of everything else. I find the most useful place for a console in my home is in the entryway, which is why I’ve made a collection here, all from Zanui to show you the diversity in style, shapes and materials, as well as price points to give your entryway and elevated look and bring a smile to your face as you come home each day.
How much do they cost?
As you can see the choice in styles are endless and the prices for the tables I’ve selected start at just under $200 and go all the way up to over $2000, so there isn’t any excuse not to have something that works at your price point, that fits into the space and works with your style. When you’re styling up a console, depending on where it is, you can work with something more decorative or look to the more useful as you style.
I mix mine up regularly but the constants are a bowl for keys (mine has a shelf for boxes containing the sunglasses and wallets) plus other pretty containers or trays for the other things you need when you eave home. I also have a Midcentury Anodized Red Apple Ice Bucket that I use for spare change and I’ve also got some décor accessories that I change regularly to liven the area up a bit too. I mix up my chinoiserie vase collection and style some here, a marble serving tray that elevates a few of these for some height difference for interest as well as a framed photo of our family on our wedding day and something a bit kitsch and cheeky, my black Japanese waving Neko cat!
Because I work with a more eclectic/Midcentury style at home there are a number of consoles I’d happily pop into our foyer from the selection above! I love the Bellini Elm Console which is very Midcentury heading towards the latter years and would fit our 1968 home perfectly! The white Chinoiserie Rattan & Bamboo Console and the Minerva Rattan & Bamboo are both gorgeous and very flexible in terms of style – also the Chinoiserie would work well as a side table too.
I actually have my eye on the Galiano because it’s got a very 1970s vibe that I love and this feels like it would work with my wallpaper and art we have in the entryway too. It also comes in a smokey black glass version, but I can’t stand the thought of dusting it daily. Stay tuned on that one.
So my friends, if you’re looking to update your entryway you really can’t go past a fun (don’t forget useful) console table to elevate the entire area and give you a great place to display a vase with something pretty or a collection you love along with those things that need a place to live when we get home.
Bec x
