Sophisticated and Stylish Hall Tables & Console Tables

Console tables, hall tables and sofa tables provide those finishing touches to your interior decor while offering convenience disguised as designer style.

What are console tables?

Console hall tables are typically narrow tables to suit hallway spaces or entryways to a home. Also referred to as sofa tables, console tables can also sit perfectly at the back of a sofa, against a living room wall, or centred beneath a striking piece of art.

What is a console table used for?

One doesn’t dine at a console table, nor is it the place to put your coffee cup. Console tables are a piece of furniture used as hallway tables and perhaps as ‘accent tables’ when used as a piece of living room furniture.

Wherever they are positioned in the home, console tables offer the perfect place to display treasured home accessories, such as:

• Stylish modern vases
• Lamps
• Small artificial plants
• Decorative pots and bowls
• Candles
• Framed photographs

A console table with drawers provides handy extra storage for things like keys and everyday clutter. The console tabletop might even be the place to throw daily junk mail and sunglasses when you walk in the door!

If you’re more disciplined than to use it for junk mail and sunnies, a modern, classic or contemporary entryway table looks very stylish with a beautiful piece of wall art or a mirror hung above it and a small cluster of vases, bowls or knick-knacks placed upon it.

What size should a console table be?

The secret to the perfect console table for your space is finding the right size and style.

While they don’t vary greatly in size, even a few inches may determine which narrow hall tables will work in your hallway and which won’t.

The French-inspired Marseille white hall table with a two-tone finish is good for small, narrow spaces, measuring 1200mm wide x 765mm high x 380mm deep.

The industrial chic design of the Nero oak console table with a walnut finish is a popular choice, measuring a middle-of-the-road 1400mm wide x 760mm high x 420mm deep.

Great for larger spaces, the La Salle Mk2 sofa table with carved legs spans a generous 1500mm width x 780mm height x 450mm depth.

Measure the available space in your hallway, entry foyer or living space to find the best fit - you don’t want to have to dodge around a bulky table in your narrow hallway, and you don’t want a small sofa side table to look lost against a big sofa or living room wall.

Can a console table be used as a desk?

Absolutely! Perfect for that apartment study nook or for utilising a small space in your living area as a place to work from home, narrow console tables for hallways, Le Franschhoek and Live Edge have the ideal design and dimensions to double as a small study desk.

Choose a fresh white hall table or a black hall table as a trendy study desk with contemporary flair, or an oak console table like Makena for fresh Scandi style.