The items you’ll need for styling a console table

I’m sharing my go-to list of items that I always have on hand to style a console table. These are also the types of items that I specify in designs for clients.

Just know that this list of styling ingredients is really for console tables that are up against a wall. If the table is more centered in the room, like against the back of a sofa, the styling is often different.

Here are the items I use to create a decorated space on top of a console table:

• 1 LAMP, most often 24” tall at minimum. Ideally around 30” tall depending on length of console table. I only like two lamps, so one on either end of the table, if it is a super long table and if the room is really needing the symmetry.

• 2 COFFEE TABLE BOOKS STACKED. Depending on the length of the table and/or the way I want to style it I’ll use multiple of these stacks of books.

• 1 VASE OF GREENERY OR FLOWERS, almost always taller than the lamp.

• 2-3 SMALL OBJECTS like bowls, sculptures, candles