Console Tables and Hallway Tables for Living Room

Sometimes your living room needs that little bit extra. Maybe you have a space against your wall that needs to be filled, or maybe a coffee table is just not practical for the space that you have available. A console table, End Tables, a Nest of Tables, or Lamp Table is a perfect way to bring style and practicality to your living room, hallway, lobby, dining room, or bedroom. Take our metro console table, for example, this ultra-modern high gloss white and glass console table will be sure to leave a long-lasting impression on your guest. White console tables stand out wonderfully against a colored wall, it comes with a shelf underneath just like some coffee tables, which can be used to store magazines or books.

Console tables or Lamp tables are commonly used in hallways or lobbies End Tables can... Read more

Console Tables and Hallway Tables for Living Room

Sometimes your living room needs that little bit extra. Maybe you have a space against your wall that needs to be filled, or maybe a coffee table is just not practical for the space that you have available. A console table, End Tables, a Nest of Tables, or Lamp Table is a perfect way to bring style and practicality to your living room, hallway, lobby, dining room, or bedroom. Take our metro console table, for example, this ultra-modern high gloss white and glass console table will be sure to leave a long-lasting impression on your guest. White console tables stand out wonderfully against a colored wall, it comes with a shelf underneath just like some coffee tables, which can be used to store magazines or books.

Console tables or Lamp tables are commonly used in hallways or lobbies End Tables can also be known as sideboards or telephone tables. Console tables for hallways are a great way to set the scene as your guests walk into your home, you can decorate them with pictures and ornaments or even use them to store your telephone, keys, letters, and other bits and bobs. A behind sofa table is a great way to showcase photos lamps and ornaments just above your sofa, this is just a console table that you would put behind your sofa, so it becomes a behind sofa table. What makes a console table different from coffee tables and side tables? With a width ranging between 70-120 and a depth between 30-40, this slim design makes it easy to distinguish from other household tables.

Console tables are also known as occasional tables, this name is used because they don’t have an official use. Although they can be used for a lot of things they were never made for an actual reason and they can be moved around from one room to another very easily, some of them even fold up so they can be stored away.

It is believed that the console table originates from French and Italian furniture design, between the 17th and 18th-century large console tables were popular in mansions and palaces. They were beautifully carved with lots of intricate detailing. Originally console tables had two legs at the front and were attached to the wall using S brackets called consoles this is where the name console table comes from. Most modern console tables we have today have 4 legs, are free-standing, and are usually made from glass, metal, marble, or wood. A console mirror table is also very common where people have a mirror above their console table maybe matching their console table. Like the teardrop glass console table for example you could match this with our teardrop wall mirror this will be sure to leave your guest gobsmacked.

What’s the difference between bedroom console tables and console tables?

In smaller bedrooms, people may often use console tables as a dressing table, so they would usually have a mirror hung on the wall above it or free standing on the table and a chair or a stool in front of it. This would then be called a bedroom console table. Bedroom console tables are typically fancier than something you would put in your living room and would often have draw. People tend to go for mirrored lamp tables for their bedroom like the Roma crushed diamond console table, this is a small, mirrored console table that is ideal for fitting into small spaces as well as looking extra glamourous.

Oak console tables

For a more traditional home set why not have a look at our huge range of oak console tables. You could go for something basic like the Harlow console table which is made up of a solid oak frame and a trend marble top. Or add a bit of quirkiness to your home with the Ottawa console table, this is a solid pine wood top with a beautiful oak finish, complemented perfectly with black metal legs to give it that quirky industrial look. If you want your console table to serve a real purpose, go for a 2-draw console table like the Juliette oak console table. Storage may be important to you especially if you are going to be putting it in your hallway it makes a perfect place to store keys and letters.