Organic Modern Console Table Ideas

The word console is doing two jobs in this search. Half the people want a slim table for the hall or the back of a sofa, and nearly as many want something long and low to put a television on. Those are different pieces of furniture that happen to share a name, and an organic modern room handles them differently. Settle which one you need, then look through the console tables.

Organic modern console table photos, sorted by where they stand

Two of the four rooms here are entries and two are living rooms, and the tables change with the job. In the halls they are narrow and close to the door: a rustic brown wood table under a beige relief panel, a dark walnut one with a black lamp and a warm abstract. In the living rooms they grow longer and heavier, dark walnut on a metal frame, with a green canvas or a wildflower meadow above. Same family, different weight. The organic modern entryway furniture holds the hall versions.

Organic modern console table inspiration for a hall

Depth is the number that matters by the door. Twelve to sixteen inches lets two people pass without turning sideways; anything deeper starts to feel like something you meet with your hip. If the hall is truly tight, a floating wall mounted shelf in oak or walnut keeps the floor clear and makes the space look wider, because you can see the baseboard running underneath. The narrow console tables begin where a standard one stops fitting.

Behind a sofa

Behind a sofa that floats in the room, the table should stop at or just under the height of the sofa back, so from across the room you see a lamp and not the edge of a tabletop. Length runs a little shorter than the sofa. This is where organic modern console table ideas pay off: a base with an arched opening or solid slab ends gives the back of the sofa a shape to look at, instead of a row of thin legs. The living room console table ideas show how these sit in a full room.

Under a television

For a screen, the console should run well past the television on each side, and stay low enough that the middle of the picture lands near eye level from the sofa. Closed doors matter more than open shelves here, because cable boxes and controllers are the least organic objects in any house. The TV consoles are built for that load and that depth.

Wood grain is the reason people choose this style, and a console shows grain better than almost anything else, since its top sits at hip height and usually under a lamp. Oak turns honey in warm light and grayish beside a north window; dark walnut loses its figure in dim light unless the lamp stands right on the top. In the organic modern console table pictures here, wherever there is a lamp it stands on the table, never beside it. The Dark Luxury Lookbook shows the same tables after sunset.

The mistake is buying one console for two jobs. A shallow hall table under a television looks starved and wobbles every time someone plugs in a charger, and a deep media cabinet in a corridor turns arriving home into a negotiation. Measure the spot, name the job, and the rest of this organic modern console table gallery will make far more sense.