Want to know how to style a console table? Refresh your space and transform your entryway with these 4 inspiring home decor vignette tips.
It’s Winter.
And do you know what is getting me through Winter?
Pink tulips and pink bunny tail pampas grass.
That’s right…I love pink.
I am always and forever a pink girl at heart.
And when it looks a little beak outside my window in the dead of Winter?
My go to technique for improving my mood is brightening up our home on the inside…with soft pinks, in the form of bendy blooms.
And in this case?
Bunny tail pampas grass is about the sweetest thing I have seen in a long while.
(PS – I made this bunny tail wreath – let me know in the comments, if you want to know how to make your own!)
Another tiny habit I lean on to help me during the Winter doldrums
…is swapping around the existing furniture in our home and moving things around a bit to awaken the seemingly sleepy house.
In fact, I recently relocated the woven mirror, from our family room gallery wall, and decided to try it above our console table in our entry way.
You can see more pictures of our family room and the details about the seasonal refresh I gave it in the Fall, inspired by the purchase of the woven mirror, here in this post.
And now, here is the recently relocated woven mirror in our entryway.
It’s safe to say that this mirror has done it again.
The relocation of this woven mirror inspired me to play with a few vignettes of entryway decor on the console table.
Are you curious what they are?
Today on the blog – it is all about styling an entryway console table and a few tips on the flexible formula, I generally stick to when it comes to styling a console table.
Come on inside friend!
Before I show you the 4 different console table decor ideas we came up with…
Let’s peek at a throwback to our entryway decor from this past Fall, before I relocated the woven mirror.
Here, I had a chicken wire farmhouse wall art piece hanging above the console table.
(I am laughing a little about all of these entryway decor photographs…because as you will notice…there happens to be a common furry decor in these pictures.)
A sleeping Willa pup in her favorite sunny spot.
Other than Willa’s sleeping position moved and the console table and wall decor being swapped out for the round mirror…
Do you notice any other changes to our entryway?
Scroll back up between the last two photos and give it another glance.
Now do you see it?
Yep, I swapped out the area rug in our entryway also.
The current entryway rug used to be in my home office.
In late Fall, I decided to bring our indoor / outdoor rug from the patio inside and try it in my home office. You can see our patio, here in this post.
Turns out I loved the way the outdoor rug looked in my office, which you can see here in this Christmas home tour post.
Falling in love with the outdoor rug from the patio, in my home office meant that the previous home office rug was in the market for a new place to land, and she found it here, in the entryway.
Want to know a secret?
Selecting a larger rug for your entry way, not the typical 3×5 placed right inside your front door, but a bigger “Right-Sized” rug?
This one little tweak, can take your entryway from a quick pit-stop place to drop the keys and shoes and transform it into feeling like it’s very own room.
When you decide to love up on the entryway space to your home…it becomes a room that can stand alone in it’s own right and say:
“Welcome! Come on In…stay awhile…and by the way…don’t I look cute?” 🙂
Do you want to know another home decor secret?
Round is your friend.
Lean in and listen close to this home decorating tip my sweet friends.
Do you know what we can’t get away from in our homes?
Straight lines.
From any place you stand in your home, your eye will fall on countless straight lines. Don’t get me wrong, we need to love straight lines as they are the strong lines that hold up our homes and hold us all in.
But?
When you look around, you will notice, you are surrounded by straight lines.
From your window panes, to your kitchen cabinets, kitchen appliances, door frames, fireplaces, furniture, dressers, benches.
You name it straight lines are everywhere.
Do you ever wonder why we love decorating with:
Candles, vases, baskets, wreaths, balls and bead garland, oversized lamps, trays on kitchen islands and ottomans?
Because they are notoriously ROUND in shape.
Round helps to soften the straight line that ends like a cliff from a counter, or a console table or a door way. Round baskets on the ground soften the edge, round trays on the counter break up the straight lines of a kitchen and round table decor on a console table help our eye take a break from the stampede of straight in our homes.
Make sense?
Oh good!
Now then…let’s take a look at 4 different console table entryway stylings shall we?
How To Style A Console Table – Entryway Inspiration & More
1. Style With Real Flowers
I’ve already given away the scene stealer of the first styling.
Here’s the thing:
Nothing says “Welcome!” like a fresh bouquet of flowers in the foyer to your home.
Friend…If you need a pick me up this week – stop at grocery store on your way home tonight and grab a bouquet of tulips. Seeing these blooms when I walk down the stairs and turn the corner has lifted my spirit in this season.
In this entryway styling, I decided to carry the similar color of pink across the table by adding my home made bunny tail wreath, sitting on top of a large home decor book, (I always take the covers off of my books to give them a more decorative aesthetic), finished off with a candle to the far side.
Pop quiz!
What do you notice about this console table decor?
Yes! ROUND is repeated 4 times in this small space!
From the woven mirror on the wall, to the vase of tulips, round wreath and candle! Round not only softens a space, incorporating round shapes creates interest that straight lines just don’t offer us.
2. Style With Plants
In this table vignette, I have swapped out the vase of tulips and replaced it with a real house plant.
I have also leaned a frame in place of where the bunny tail wreath was and finished off with a stack of old books topped off with a small, round gold dish.
I also continued to use a color palette of neutrals and used the general “rule of 3” on the far right side of the table. Using the framed bird art as my foundation piece and layering two more items in front to form a grouping of 3 in tall (frame), medium (books) and small (dish.)
Stick with odd numbers and the general “tall, medium, small” concept, and you will be in good styling shape friend. 🙂
PS – Notice the Round stool, tucked just inside the door. 🙂
3. Style With Faux Stems
In this styling, I have replaced the left side, where the tulips were in this first group and where the house plant was in the second grouping to light and airy Winter white faux stems in a thrift store vase I up-cycled by painting it to look like an aged ceramic vase, that is a popular look in the Pottery Barn lovers world right now.
You can see the vase transformation and DIY steps, here in this post.
Again, I am using the general “Rule of 3” in a grouping of tall, medium, small in this vignette.
The small scripture verse in this gold floating frame, sitting on top of the large, home decor book and finished off with a round candle from Aroma Candle Studio in Bel Air. (Pop in there, if you haven’t yet!)
It appears, all of this console table styling has disturbed my sleeping pup and she is about as happy about it as our 3 girls were yesterday morning, when I woke them up for a Monday morning, back to school wakeup call. 🙂
4. Style With A Lamp
Last but not least…I traded the round vase of tulips, round pot with a plant and round vase with faux stems for….
Drumroll please.
A round lamp.
More round. 🙂
You’re shocked, I know.
This look is very popular right now.
The home decor peeps of the planet are in love with a straight edged console table, adorned with a round mirror above, a slightly oversized round lamp to the side, capped off with a trio of table table decor on a tray.
That was a lot of T’s!
Do you see how this console table decorating almost has a flexible formula and gets easier the more you do it?
“The formula” I find that works for me in this space is loosely following this guide:
Flexible Formula for Decorating a Console Table:
1. Tall, Oversized, Round decor on one side. (Flowers, Plant, Lamp)
2. Grouping of 3, tall, medium and small nested on the opposite side.
3. Consistency in color palette.
A quick recap of the consistency in color from each console table stylings:
In the first vignette, I repeated the soft pink in the tulips with the pink in the bunny tail wreath.
In the second vignette, I repeated the green from the house plant with the soft greens and blues in the leaning bird art print.
In the third vignette, I repeated the white from the faux stems with the white candle and in the 4th vignette the color palette was a blend of neutrals.
Ok friend!
That’s a console table decor and entryway inspiration wrap!
I would love to know which of the 4 console table decor ideas was your favorite, let me know in the comments below!
I hope these console table styling tips help to build your confidence in shaking things up and trying to move things around a little bit inside, while we wait for the weather to bloom outside!
Be well friend…and go pick up those tulips on the way home tonight –
they help.
PS – If you want your tulips to last longer?
Cut the stems, remove the bottom leaf, and add them to COLD water, plus put a penny in the water too. I learned these tips from my blogger friend, KariAnne over at Thistlewood Farms Blog- you can see more of her tulip tips here in her post.
If this penny could talk, I think it would say…
Heads up...chin up, Spring is coming friend.
Living on a prayer,
Heather
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Love your entry ideas
Thank you so much Melinda! I always appreciate seeing your name in the comments of my blog posts! XO, Heather