Console Tables by Colour and Setting

The console table is one of those pieces that earns its place before anyone even sits down. It sets the tone in a hallway before you've taken your coat off. It anchors a living room wall that would otherwise feel unfinished. It works harder than people give it credit for, which is exactly why choosing the wrong one is so noticeable. We've organised this collection by colour and setting because that is genuinely how people shop for them. You're not looking for a console table in the abstract. You're looking for something that works in a narrow Victorian hallway painted in Farrow and Ball Hardwick White, or something that holds its own against an already busy living room. Colour and material have to be right first. Everything else follows. We've pulled together pieces across a range of finishes, woods, painted options, and metal frames, matched to the spaces they actually suit. Find the setting that looks like yours and start there.

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Console Tables That Quietly Do the Job INSTOCK UK Black Wooden Top Rectangular Console Table with Metal Frame Jump to section ↓

$179.95 INSTOCK UK

Metal Console Tables That Hold Up to Daily Life ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas JILL Console Table Aged Oak Veneer Matte Jump to section ↓

$4,186.00 ARACO INTERIORS

Modern Console Tables That Anchor the Room ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas EVELYN Console Table Smoked Eucalyptus Veneer Matte Jump to section ↓

$3,263.00 ARACO INTERIORS

Oak Console Tables That Just Fit the Space OAK&MORE Lawson Oak and Charcoal Grey Painted Console Table Jump to section ↓

$349.00 OAK&MORE

Solid Wood Console Tables That Anchor the Room INSTOCK UK Artisan Furniture Solid Wood Curved Chestnut Console Table Jump to section ↓

$297.94 INSTOCK UK

Wood Console Tables That Anchor the Room ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas CTA Console Table Walnut Veneer Matte Jump to section ↓

$1,947.00 ARACO INTERIORS

Console Tables That Quietly Do the Job

The hallway sets the tone for everything that follows and most people either ignore it entirely or overthink it. A console table is the one piece of furniture that can do genuine work in that space without demanding too much. It holds the post, the keys, the things you grab on the way out. It gives the room a reason to exist beyond a corridor you walk through without noticing. What we've looked for here is the table that looks like it belongs rather than arrived. Slim enough to not narrow a hallway. Interesting enough to not disappear. Sturdy enough to handle daily life rather than just looking good in photographs. We've also thought about the sitting room wall, the space behind a sofa that needs something to anchor it. Console tables work there too. People forget that. These are not statement pieces. They are the furniture that makes the rest of a room feel properly finished. That is exactly what good design should do.

INSTOCK UK Black Wooden Top Rectangular Console Table with Metal Frame $179.95 INSTOCK UK

INSTOCK UK Natural Oak Wood Top Console Table with Stainless Steel Frame $499.95 INSTOCK UK

INSTOCK UK Gold Antique Effect Console Table with Cross End Design and Two-Tier Glass Shelves, Axis $610.95 INSTOCK UK

INSTOCK UK Brown Wood Multi Level Tier Console Table with Gold Finish Metal Frame $799.95 INSTOCK UK

COX AND COX Villette Console Table $625.00 COX AND COX

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Metal Console Tables That Hold Up to Daily Life

A console table takes more daily punishment than almost any other piece of furniture in the house. Keys get thrown onto it. Bags get dumped against it. It holds the post, the dog lead, the thing you meant to take upstairs three days ago. Most people treat it as purely functional and then wonder why it looks tired within a year. Metal frames change that equation. Done well, they bring a structural quality that wooden legs and MDF tops simply cannot match, and they age in a way that actually looks better rather than worse. What we looked for here was weight without bulk, finish that survives contact with real life, and a profile that works in a hallway without eating it. Some of these are spare and industrial. Others are more refined. All of them are pieces we would put in our own homes without worrying about them. A console table should look like it belongs. These ones do.

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas JILL Console Table Aged Oak Veneer Matte $4,186.00 ARACO INTERIORS

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas EVELYN Console Table Walnut Veneer Matte $2,848.00 ARACO INTERIORS

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas JILL Console Table Grey Eucalyptus Veneer Matte $4,186.00 ARACO INTERIORS

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas EVELYN Console Table Grey Eucalyptus Veneer Matte $3,263.00 ARACO INTERIORS

LA REDOUTE UK Mahaut Marble & Metal Console Table $749.99 LA REDOUTE UK

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas JILL Console Table Smoked Eucalyptus Veneer Matte $3,644.00 ARACO INTERIORS

INSTOCK UK Black Marble Top Console Table with Curved Gold Finish Metal Frame $515.95 INSTOCK UK

LIVING WITH LUXURY California Walnut Hallway Drawer Console Table $299.99 LIVING WITH LUXURY

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Modern Console Tables That Anchor the Room

The hallway or the wall behind the sofa or the awkward stretch of dining room that needs something to hold it together. These are the spaces where a console table does more work than people give it credit for. It is not just a surface. It sets the tone for an entire end of the room. We have been looking at modern designs specifically because modern does not mean cold or minimal for the sake of it. It means clean lines that do not compete with everything else, materials that age well, proportions that feel considered rather than accidental. What we wanted to find were pieces that anchor a space without dominating it. Tables that give you somewhere to put a lamp, a bowl, a stack of books, without the whole arrangement looking like it tried too hard. Slim legs, honest materials, the kind of scale that works in a real room rather than a showroom. These are the ones that actually hold a wall.

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas EVELYN Console Table Smoked Eucalyptus Veneer Matte $3,263.00 ARACO INTERIORS

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas CHIOS Console Table Aged Oak Veneer Matte $2,226.00 ARACO INTERIORS

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas AGOT Console Table Aged Oak Veneer Matte $1,319.00 ARACO INTERIORS

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas AGOT Console Table Grey Eucalyptus Veneer Matte $1,319.00 ARACO INTERIORS

COX AND COX Hamar Console Table $595.00 COX AND COX

COX AND COX Cleo Console Table $850.00 COX AND COX

LIVING WITH LUXURY Arya Console Table $327.99 LIVING WITH LUXURY

DREAM INTERIORS Brushed Gold Console Table $1,200.00 DREAM INTERIORS

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Oak Console Tables That Just Fit the Space

The hallway is the hardest working space in most homes and also the most neglected. It sets the tone for everything beyond it, and yet people leave it to chance. A console table is often the piece that finally makes it feel resolved. The problem is scale. Too deep and you're squeezing past it every morning. Too narrow and it looks unconvincing, like something placed there to fill a gap rather than chosen properly. Oak is what we keep coming back to because it ages rather than dates, and because it sits comfortably with almost any floor or wall colour without demanding attention. We've looked carefully at proportions here, at tables that work in the spaces real hallways actually offer rather than the generous ones in showrooms. Some are slimmer, some have shelves underneath for shoes or baskets, some are simply elegant and do nothing except look exactly right. These are the ones worth making room for.

OAK&MORE Lawson Oak and Charcoal Grey Painted Console Table $349.00 OAK&MORE

INSTOCK UK Washed Grey Oak Wood Console Table with Drawers and Lower Shelf $1,469.95 INSTOCK UK

OAK&MORE Rustic Solid Oak Console Table $229.00 OAK&MORE

INSTOCK UK Natural Oak Veneer Top -Drawer Console Table with Black Knopped Birchwood Legs and Silver Cupped Handles $899.95 INSTOCK UK

LA REDOUTE UK Diletta Console Table, L, Designed By Emmanuel Gallina $519.99 LA REDOUTE UK

INSTOCK UK Artisan Furniture Solid Wood Edessa Bone Inlay Console Table $477.94 INSTOCK UK

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas PEARL Console Table Aged Oak Veneer Matte $4,327.00 ARACO INTERIORS

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas EVELYN Console Table Aged Oak Veneer Matte $3,263.00 ARACO INTERIORS

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Solid Wood Console Tables That Anchor the Room

The hallway sets the tone for everything that follows and most people underestimate it. A console table is not a decorative afterthought. It is the piece that tells you whether a room feels considered or just furnished. We have spent a long time looking at what actually makes a console table worth the floor space it takes up, and the answer is almost always solid wood. Not veneer, not MDF with a painted finish that chips within a year. Real wood that has grain and weight and the kind of presence that holds a wall rather than just leaning against it. What we have picked here works in hallways but also behind sofas, in dining rooms that need a serving surface, in bedrooms that want something more interesting than a second chest of drawers. Proportions matter enormously with console tables and we have been strict about that. Too spindly and the room loses its anchor. These are the ones that earn the space they occupy.

INSTOCK UK Artisan Furniture Solid Wood Curved Chestnut Console Table $297.94 INSTOCK UK

INSTOCK UK Artisan Furniture Solid Wood Hallway Drawer Console Table $282.94 INSTOCK UK

DOROTHY PERKINS UK Homcom Console Table Dressing Desk Stunning Kitchen Hall Drawers In White $78.20 DOROTHY PERKINS UK

OAK&MORE Felton Oak and Light Grey Painted Storage Console Table $299.00 OAK&MORE

LIVING WITH LUXURY Indira California Walnut Floating Console Table $279.99 LIVING WITH LUXURY

OAK&MORE Brampton Soft Green Painted Storage Console Table $299.00 OAK&MORE

DOROTHY PERKINS UK Furnitureboxuk Belle Oak Wood And Cream Console Table $169.99 DOROTHY PERKINS UK

LIVING WITH LUXURY Console Table with Storage - Drawer Nordic Design with Solid Mango Wood $379.99 LIVING WITH LUXURY

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Wood Console Tables That Anchor the Room

A hallway without a console table feels unfinished in a way that is hard to articulate but immediately obvious. There is nowhere to put your keys, nowhere for a lamp to stand, nothing to tell you that the space has been considered. A wood console table solves that, and it does something more. It gives the room a point of gravity. A place the eye lands. We have been looking specifically at wood because it brings warmth that metal and glass simply cannot, and because it ages in a way that improves rather than diminishes. The grain, the colour, the weight of it all read as considered rather than convenient. What we looked for here was proper construction, a surface that can take daily life, and proportions that work in real hallways rather than magazine ones. Slim profiles for narrower spaces, deeper tops where there is room to layer. These are the pieces that make a space feel like someone actually thought about it.

ARACO INTERIORS Laskasas CTA Console Table Walnut Veneer Matte $1,947.00 ARACO INTERIORS