devo digest

Look at your house carefully before buying a piece of furniture such as a console table. If the kitchen cabinet’s and the entrance banister and the edging and cornices are all dark wood, carry that through with the furniture in cherry wood or oak or pine depending on the wood in the home. On the other hand if the home is a sleek modern white with chrome and light colors and stainless steel appliances, then add to that with contemporary furniture. Place a transparent hall console table at the entrance and compliment it with an art deco mirror. Use a modern console table as a bar table or buffet in the dinning room and refrain from anything that is cherry or oak.

Start Fresh

Unfortunately, for most of us, we acquire furniture in bits and pieces and end up with a variety of styles over time. However, if you are remodeling your home or moving into a new one, consider having a yard sale or garage sale and selling all the pieces that don’t go with your new style. It’s better to have less that all goes together then to have a pile of furniture that makes your new space look cluttered. Start fresh. Pick a style and stick to it for a while.

Small Console Table

For a small console table there’s the Robie Mission Console Table that’s great in any small space or hallway or entrance or living room and only costs about $370. It’s solid wood and has two drawers and has the classic mission style wooden slats along the sides down to the floor with an open front.

Cheap Console Tables

There’s a nice little cheap item without drawers from Home Decorators that is cherry hardwood and nicely finished for just under $150. This cherry table is from the Cooper Classic Viejo Mission series in oak, for under $450. Or you may like the classic mission design from Amazon Marketplace also cherry hardwood for just under $150. And for a really cheap console table there’s the Target Mission line by Furio Home sold for about $90, and has a simple natural wood finish. For an oak wood model that’s stylish there’s the Picotee Mission Console Table, also from Target, for just $130.

Some of these models may double as an oak sofa table or hall entrance table or even a buffet. The cherry console table designs and the oak models may be used for audiovisual equipment or simply decorative purposes. However, all wood console table designs suggested in this article can be ordered online.

Glass and Chrome Tables

Some of the modern console tables are made of glass and chrome and can work well as bar furniture because they tend to be tall tables. One may even double as a cocktail table with a stool or two. They may also work as a buffet in conjunction with a glass dining table and chrome chairs in a retro modern decorated home.

Versatile Console

Console tables do not have a defined style or purpose like coffee tables or a kitchen table and therefore are versatile in any room of the house and can virtually be anything you desire them to be. The only real characteristics that defines a console table is that it tends to be tall and narrow, making it good to press against a wall in limited space or at the back of a sofa that is not against a wall. These pieces do not work well as end tables because they are usually too high to set a drink on comfortably or to reach from a low seating position.

End tables traditionally are lower than the arm height of a sofa and the glass coffee table will be even lower. So console tables do have their limitations in that they will not replace a coffee table or an end table but must be beside or near higher furniture items like a kitchen table. The demilune, or half moon console is best if placed in a room with other round table designs and not mixed with square or rectangular shaped tables.