Console Tables | Oak & Walnut Hallway Consoles

Narrow enough for a hallway

Depth is the decision that matters most. Our shallowest console tables are 35cm deep, which keeps them close to the wall and out of the way in a corridor. At 45cm, there is room for a lamp, a tray and the day's post side by side without stacking.

The usual guidance is to leave around 80cm of clear walkway past a console table. In a hallway 115cm wide, a 35cm depth leaves exactly that. In anything wider, or along a landing or a living room wall, a deeper top gives you more to work with.

Looking for more storage?

If you need cupboards as well as drawers, the sideboards go deeper and store more. For the living room, the coffee tables share the same mid-century design language.

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Wooden console table with books and a vase against a blue wall

Oak or walnut

Both tables come in two finishes, and it is worth knowing what sits underneath each.

Console Table 01 in Oak is solid white oak and oak veneers under a natural lacquer. In Walnut, it is solid acacia and acacia veneer with a walnut-toned lacquer. Console Table 02 is oak either way: solid white oak legs, with white oak solids and veneers over an engineered wood core, finished in natural oak or stained walnut so the grain still reads through.

Grain varies from piece to piece on both, so no two tables are identical.

Console tables with drawers

Every one of them hides more than it shows, whether that is two drawers or one wide one. All run on wooden runners rather than metal, waxed so they pull smoothly and stay quiet, and the drawers are lined so the contents do not slide about. Handles are either brushed brass finished stainless steel with a PVD coating to stop them tarnishing, or a cut-out in the drawer front that leaves the timber uninterrupted.

Wooden runners move wood on wood. They are quieter than metal and they age better.

Console Table FAQs

Your console table questions answered

What is a console table?

A console table is a narrow table designed to sit against a wall rather than stand in the middle of a room. It is usually around 80cm tall, the same height as a kitchen counter, and much shallower than a dining or side table. That shallow depth is the whole point: it gives you a surface and some storage in a space too tight for anything else.

What is a console table used for?

Most often, for landing. Keys, post, sunglasses, the things you are holding when you come through the door. With drawers, it also hides them. Beyond the hallway, a console table works behind a sofa, along a landing, under a mirror, or as a compact dressing table in a bedroom that has no room for a full one.

How deep should a console table be?

Deep enough to be useful, shallow enough to walk past. Aim to leave around 80cm of clear walkway alongside it. In a narrow hallway that usually means 30 to 35cm deep, which is where our shallowest designs sit. In a wider hallway, a landing or a living room, 45cm gives you a more usable surface.

How high should a console table be?

Around 80cm is standard, and that is where ours sit. It is roughly counter height, so the surface sits at a comfortable level to put something down without looking. If you are putting one behind a sofa, check your sofa back height first, since the console usually looks best level with it or slightly above.

What is the difference between a console table and a sideboard?

Depth and capacity. A console table is shallow, open underneath or fitted with a drawer or two, and built for surface and quick access. A sideboard is deeper, usually has cupboards as well as drawers, and is built to store dinnerware, linen or anything else in volume. A console suits a hallway, a sideboard suits a dining or living room with the floor space for it.

How do you style a console table?

The reliable formula is three heights and an odd number of objects: something tall at one end, such as a lamp or a vase, something low and horizontal, such as a stack of books or a tray, and something in between. Leave a third of the surface clear so it still functions. A mirror or a piece of art above it anchors the whole arrangement to the wall.

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