Do you have a console table, coffee table or end table that needs a little decorating style? Not sure how to give your tables a cohesive look? Clear off the clutter and decorate your accent tables like a pro! Inject a heavy dose of style into your rooms with these easy, chic looks and my 5 decorating tips!
Hello friends! Today I’m sharing with you 5 tips to decorate accent tables like a pro and give you a little tour of our family room!
Decorating accent tables can be a little tricky. It’s all about using baskets to corral loose items and repeating accent colors in your room to make your tables look styled with purpose!
Let’s take a look at my 5 tips to decorate accent tables like a Pro:
Here’s our family room coffee table – well actually it’s two nesting tables!
Tip No 1: Add a shallow basket to your coffee table to corral tv remotes, organize your decor accents and add texture and color to your room. Here I’ve used a rattan basket that repeats the color of our hardwood flooring ( remember to repeat the colors in a room to give it a ‘designer’ look!). I placed a couple of my decorating books that I love to flip through on a regular basis in the basket and topped my books with a white bowl filled with moss spheres. The moss adds a pop of gorgeous green (I love this shade of emerald green!). I also added a ceramic jar and a gold octagon shaped paperweight.
Tip No 2: Add flowers – fresh or faux! Adding flowers to your tables is a beautiful way to decorate them, adds softness and ‘life’ to your room! This vase of tulips is a faux arrangement (I usually use fresh tulips but my local stores were out of them at the time I shot this!). It’s completely okay to use faux flowers as long as they are real looking – and a lot of today’s faux blossoms are very realistic! I always love to sit my vases on a book or two – this makes it look cohesive with the table.
Tip No. 3: Add two table lamps to a console table to add task lighting to a room and add height to create a separate zone in an open concept home. Our family room and dining room are open concept. I’ve created two separate zones and separated the rooms to create a cozy look by adding this console table to the back of our sectional sofa. The two crystal lamps add lighting here (there is no overhead lighting) and help to separate the sofa and family room from the dining room space.
Tip No 4: Decorate an end table that sits beside a wall with tall objects like this tall vase of dogwood blossoms. Adding a tall vase will soften that corner of the sofa and draws the wall art into a grouping that’s cozy and welcoming. If you have a tall table lamp that will also work too!
Here’s a shot of our TV unit in our family room – I’ll show you how to decorate TV units another time!
Tip No. 5: Adding a decorated console table to a stair wall is a great way to decorate that awkward space! When decorating your console table make sure that nothing is sticking into the stair itself or it will get knocked over! Add a vase of blooming branches or flowers, prop up a piece of art and add a basket or two on the console lower shelf to store pillows and throws! Make sure you use two smaller baskets or one longer one to fill up the shelf space.
I added a slip covered parsons chair (with a pillow and throw) and a garden stool to our stair area to create a cozy nook- the chair and garden stool can be pulled out when we need extra seating and an extra side table for company!
Did you enjoy my 5 tips to decorate your accent tables with style? Share in the comments below what you think!
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How do you plug in the lamps? There is no room on the tables for a person to put down a drink. Faux flowers: NEVER!!!!!!!!
The lamp cords run behind the console table, using command strip hooks so you don’t see them, and plug into the wall. Actually there is room on the tables to put down a drink and the tray on the coffee table can be moved easily too for extra room! Although I would love to have fresh flowers in my home all the time, I can’t afford to buy them all the time – and there are no flowers blooming outside here yet – so I use realistic faux blooms from time to time.
Thank you for sharing these tips. You often say to use 3 or 5 items when decorating yet the console with the lamps and candles look to be in two’s. It looks lovely but I’m confused how to pull it off. Can you give some more guidelines in a future post?
Just lovely and very cohesive. So much so that you can edit anytime you want and move things to different locations. I find myself doing that all the time. I used to be a no-silk-flowers-ever-kinda girl but am branching out a bit (no pun intended) and finding realistic silk blooms. I’ve found that buying that fake water and using it in few containers with silks really helps!
Your home is simply lovely….I especially like your use of very realistic faux flowers…lol!
Thank you for the great tips on decorating tables.
Ii love baskets . I had never thought of using them on my coffee table. This afternoon I will decorating my table with baskets n
Love your tables.
love your use of natural elements. really grounds the space.
Thanks Heather those were some great ideas. I’ll try to restyle my coffee table.
Great – glad you like my tips Brenda!! Have a great day!
I was going to ask how you hide the lamp wires on the console table but you already answered that question and the other is I would’ve never guessed those tulips on your coffee table weren’t real; great job of picking them out and then arranging them to look so natural.
Great ideas and advice! Thank you so much!
You’re welcome Lynn! Thanks for visiting! xo Heather
Thank you for all the great tips! I find your blog very informative and really enjoy reading it. I too use faux flowers and they look very real. Thank you for sharing all this information with us.
Hello Heather, I really like what you did with the tables. My issue is to decorate my end tables on either side of my sofa, I can’t use lamps as I have no way to plug them. Please help!
Kathy
Hi Kathy! I can certainly help you with that! Email me at [email protected] and we can discuss it further! 🙂