Several manufacturers make great hall tables. One of them is Ballard Designs. This company produces slim, classic wood models with shelves and drawers. They have styles like the Martin Console that is priced under $400 USD and is in a classic wood style, finished in “Rubbed Cream”. You can also find unusual designs from a variety of online retailers. Narrow hall table styles by Powell Furniture are also nice and you can find some unique higher end pieces there. Some of this manufacturer’s table styles come with mirrors or other accessories, like umbrella hooks or hat racks. Of course, you’ll pay slightly more for such designs, but the space savings are great. They also provide an added touch of elegance.

There are also more modern or modular shaped designs available from places like Accent Furniture. Specifically, check into the Sitcom Furniture and Chandra console pieces. These are both practical and funky.

Of course furnishings make up a large part of a home’s beauty. Tastefully crafted furniture add class and elegance to a home. They make a statement about us and our aspirations. Comfortable and stylish lounge settings are a pleasure to sit in. Professionally crafted dining sets add to a meal’s enjoyment. Art works enhance a home’s atmosphere with their color and vibrancy. But it’s not just the primary and prominent furnishings that create a home’s environment and make it pleasing to the eye. It often is the small and seemingly insignificant furnishings that both complement and complete the more dominant furnishings. Included in these less dominant furnishings are console tables.

You may ask what exactly is a console table? A console table is primarily an accent table used for a multiplicity of purposes. It is one of those small and seemingly insignificant pieces of furniture that can actually make a substantial difference to your home and its milieu. You can purchase a glass console table or a wood or iron one. Console tables can be placed a variety of rooms. They can be used in a hallway as a utility table for dropping car keys, placing the home telephone or a holding place for the newspaper or the mail. They can also be used in a dining room as a complementary piece to the main dining table and chairs. They can serve as sofa table often behind a sofa lounge adding to the sofa as a room divider. With a mirror they can add space and contrast to a hallway. As a half moon or drop leaf table they can serve as a bar table or even a bistro table. They can be utilised in a bedroom as a decorative piece or again as a more functional table for storing various day to day items including jewellery. They can also be used outside to complement a chaise lounge that is covered with colorful chaise lounge cushions.

Undoubtedly a console table is a tasteful and useful addition to any home.

 
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Step 1

First work out how many tables you are going to buy and where you will place them in your home. Figure out whether their purpose is decorative or utilitarian. Will it complement a study table or serve as a dining bench? Also consider how complementary the tables need to be.

Step 2

Work out a budget. Allow more for the decorative items like a Tuscan console table that will be a feature piece. Consider low cost tables for bathrooms and studies. Putting a boundary on your expenditure before starting your search will help you avoid any spur of the moment decisions that will prove costly in the long run.

Make a decision as to how high your tables will be. Take into account the other furnishings in the room where your table will be placed. Make sure you keep the table in right proportion to the rest of your furniture.

Step 4

Measure the footprint of the areas where your console tables are going to be placed. Get an accurate assessment of the size of table you need to find.

Step 5

Give some thought to the colors of your tables. Will you paint them? Will you prefer to stain the wood a certain color? What colors in the room do you need to match or contrast? You will want to avoid a major clash of colors.

Step 6

This next step is very important.  What shape do you want? The options are many and include half circle, square, rectangular, round, v shaped for  a corner or straight back for a wall. What will suit the room and the feel you are looking to produce. Also factor in the shape of the legs. Some legs are ornate, others plain.

Step 7

Now consider the material. Do you want wood, wrought iron or a combination of both? Do you want a glass console table or one with a marble top? What will suit the furnishings in the room?

Step 8

We are getting close to the end of our process. If you want decorations to be on the table whether they are flowers or artwork choose a table that will go well with the decoration.

Step 9

Ask some of your friends where they bought their tables and follow their recommendations. Also search the net and discover the different options for purchasing.

Step 10

Now hit the shops and enjoy buying those well designed tables that will add beauty and functionality to your home.

Because furniture is an investment, sometimes we purchase things gradually. This, of course, makes logical sense. It allows you to live within your budget, and to look for fine items that are a good value, while at the same time living in the room and getting to know it.

A console table is something you can purchase right away, because usually a person can see where it might most logically go.

A good place for your first console table is in the entry way.

Your console table may look especially beautiful with an accent mirror above it.

A large vase is also a possibility as a topper accent for your table. Be sure that the vase is of a scale that befits the table. If your console is heavy and substantial, look for a tall and chunky vase with some volume to it. If your console is more delicate, consider a crystal vase with exquisite etching. Those from Bohemia might be great.

Using your console table is easy. There are a variety of utilitarian tasks your table can help you with:

-Keys – Having a prescribed place to put your car keys and house keys will save you the trouble of looking all over the house for them.

-Money – Place your wallet and pocket change in an attractive dish on the console. While you might not do this when company is around, it should be fine during the week when you are not anticipating visitors.

-Cellular phones – Your mobile devices can be charged on the console quite easily. If you look in the airline shopping magazines during your next plane flight, you will see extraordinary polished wood boxes, which are designed to hide the phone cords and phones during charging.

Shopping online for your console table will help you have a wide variety from which to choose. It will also enable you to purchase furniture of good value.

Three Decorating Ideas For A Narrow Console Table

Using a Powel or a Picotee or even a Cooper Classic mission console table, all which are priced very affordably, you can accent your entry or hall very quickly and easily.

1. The first thing to remember for hallway, entryway or long narrow spaces is that you not only want a narrow console, but you want it to be tall. You also want it to be open, I mean, without doors or drawers if possible. Why? Because a tall open console table will give the illusion of more space in the hallway or entry. Classily, these tables have had a mirror above them, and this is a good idea because a mirror will not only be useful if it’s an entry, but will make the area appear larger. However, the classic round or oval is not recommended when matching to a mission console table because that particular style is not ornate and curled and carved like the old French ones, but straight and crisp and clean with square or rectangular shaped legs and top. The best mirrors will be long vertical or horizontal ones that are rectangular. If placing the mirror horizontally, don’t choose one that is longer than the tabletop.

2. For a clean modern look that you can personalize try getting an unfinished pine piece from International Concepts or even from Target who have really cheap ones, and get the style that is really tall and had only one set of small drawers at the top and the rest is open. Finish it yourself with colored lacquer or paint and give the wood a modern and personal touch with a stencil applied to the front of the drawers and maybe even the top. Instead of placing a traditional rectangular, square or oval mirror above this little narrow console table, get 4 to 6 mirror squares that attach flat to the wall. This will give you the same illusion of space without any extra bulk and will be sleek and modern. Don’t clutter the console table with ornaments. Keep this look clean and simple.

3. There’s a sleek narrow console table by Cooper Classic that’s called the Viejo mission console and this piece is a fun one to work with at an entry or at the end of a hallway passage. It has a Spanish or Mexican antique feel and has a drawer that’s small but otherwise is open. It’s finished in antique varnish so you don’t have to do anything. But in this suggestion, I recommend you don’t use a mirror above it, instead place one or two wrought iron lantern over it, add a small, very narrow shelf between the lamps and place books on the shelf, preferably old ones. You can also put a piece of artwork in an antique frame instead. The idea is to make the area into what looks like an old desk or study. You needn’t put a chair or actually write at it, just give it that feeling. Like most of the Cooper Classic designs this one has one shelf, so use it for books and give your hall or entry a studious old-world touch.