piquing my pinterest / console tables

I have this friend. And she has this table behind one of her lounges.

She probably doesn’t realise that I have this obsession with her table behind the lounge but since the very first time I had seen it, I obsessed with how I  was going to make that work in my living room.

SO much so obsessed that I DID consider going to her house just to take a photo of it for this blog post. Hehe. She wouldn’t think anything of it. She already knows I’m a little weird.

You see, my living room is tiny small cozy and I can only rearrange the furniture so many ways and if I stuck a table in behind one of the lounges, I’m bringing the lounge closer to the centre of the room which might close things  in and make the room look even more *ahem* cosier.

But that still doesn’t defer from the fact that I really really want NEED a console table behind my lounge.

And then I got thinking about what I would put on that console table, if I got one.

So I hit Pinterest…

THIS is what I imagine a console table is meant to look like. Pretty things on top with room underneath for…stuff. Unfortunately in my case, I don’t have the room to have the lounges in the middle of the room.

 

I love the simplicity of this – two ceramic pieces. And nothing else.

 

Two lamps work for me too. Which means that we wouldn’t have to have the “big” light on all the time, creating a mood.

 

This one too. Just a lamp and a small ornament – or is that a candle?

 

Three glass vases. I DO like this but with the table behind the lounge I would be concerned about the kids plonking themselves on the lounge and bumping the table and having to sweep up a whole heap of glass shards.

 

With a little help from Bill and the kids, we moved things around so I could add my console table. There may or may not have been some eye-rolling from those helping me when I said that we HAD to fit this in.

Want to see what it looks like?

You see that leaf shaped thing? It’s meant to be a wall hanging. When I saw it in the store, it was laying on it’s side like this. Bill (the husband – for those playing at home) said something along the lines of  ”It’s meant to be hanging on the wall. You can’t use it as a bowl”.

Ah, yes I can.

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Happy Pinning!

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