Which tray to choose for a console?

The console table is a piece of furniture that is considered decorative. It is also very practical depending on the room where you want to install it.

The console, its usefulness and its place

The Entrance

Here, this piece of furniture can be used as an extra piece of furniture. You can place decorative elements but also useful as a pocket for example. If your entrance is a fairly small space, install a console there anyway. Just use 2 legs and a wall mount on your tray to save floor space.

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The living room

In this room we combine living room and dining room. It is possible that it is decorative and can also be useful, if you want to add storage. To do this, add crosspieces to your furniture and personalize it with your decoration. strong> In addition, if you have a large living room and it seems empty to you, adding this piece of furniture is a good solution. This furniture allows to occupy your unused spaces while adding volume, without being imposing in your room.

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The bedroom

This is possibly where the console has the most use. Indeed, it serves as a storage unit for the living room, with the addition of small baskets, recycled crates. You can also use it as a dressing table or even as an extra desk for people who don't have a place to reserve this piece of furniture. This saves space in your room and creates a multifunctional piece of furniture.

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The hallway

Your hallway is wide enough, the console table is the piece of furniture you need. Indeed, a thin and long console makes it possible to enlarge the space and dress it with a floor lamp, this offers a new source of light in corridors that are sometimes too dark. To save space in this room, it is quite possible to fix the top of your furniture to the wall. So you won't clutter up your hallway and you won't have a bulky extra piece of furniture.

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Between two windows

It's not really a room in its own right, but adding this piece of furniture between two windows saves space. space and gives the impression of expanding the room.

It is usually rectangular in shape. It is rare to see it in a different form. What makes it different, is the choice of top, finishes or even corners. In addition, the choice of feet is important, as well as the number of crosspieces if you need storage. The choices are multiple and allow you to make your piece of furniture unique.

Table tops for making a console table

The dimensions of the tray vary depending on its purpose, but also on where you want to put it. Here are the dimensions of 4 so-called standard trays:

120 x 25 cm

These dimensions are ideal for a console that takes place in a long room. Its slender side gives it a more airy look. It is reinforced, if it consists of 4 individual feet. With 2 feet, in pairs, it will have a more industrial style with its length of 120 cm.

100 x 30 cm

A 100 cm by 30 cm wide top corresponds to the top of an average console. This type of size is designed for a console table in an apartment entrance, or even in a square entrance hall of a house.

90 x 30 cm

This is also a medium-sized console. In order to add originality to your piece of furniture, it is quite possible to fix part of your top to the wall and add 2 individual feet to support the other part of the top.

60 x 20 cm

This small-sized tray is useful for making a small console or even a small tablet that you can can put above a radiator, for example.

Tailored

The 4 trays mentioned above are standard trays for standard consoles. It is also possible to create your own piece of furniture from a made-to-measure top. Either by simple desire or due to technical constraints.

For example, if you want to add one in the middle of your two windows that the dimensions don't match our standard category, you can totally imagine a ptailor-made table according to the space you have.

With the option of having a custom top, you have the chance to build the console of your dreams.< /strong>

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In addition to the dimensions and its usefulness, personalize your tray even more with the choice of edge. C i.e., the aesthetic finish of the edges of your tray. There are 4 of them:

• straight
• live edge: the top is worked to give it an irregularity, which allows for a natural and authentic result
• airplane wing: the corners of the board are diagonal to it
• half rounded

In summary, here is what you need to know to choose the perfect tray for your console:

• The usefulness of your console: depending on the room where it will be, and also if it is only for decoration or storage.
• The dimensions of the tray: since you know its usefulness, it is easier to choose the dimensions, based on standard trays initially for custom trays.
• The choice of edge: it is important and will add charm to your furniture.< /li>
• Choice of finish: you can choose to leave the wood of your top raw or you can varnish or vitrify it or oil it.
• Choosing the legs that will go with the top: based on the previous steps, you can now choose the legs that will suit your project.

And now, your console is ready, all you have to do is make it!