20 Decorative Entryway Table Ideas for a Warm Welcome
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Your entryway essentially provides the first impression of your home, introducing your style, personality, and aesthetic to guests and loved ones. While entryways are often overlooked or considered strictly functional spaces, intentional design can make all the difference. No matter your entryway's size, incorporating a grab-and-go or drop zone for your mail, keys, and shoes can help streamline your morning routine. Cabinets, shelves, and hooks are common entryway sights, but why not opt for decorative entryway tables instead?
Whether crafted from wood or metal, featuring open storage or closed compartments, a decorative entryway table provides a chic yet functional place to keep all of your daily essentials (like those spare keys that always seem to end up in the kitchen's junk drawer). These tables don't have to be purely utilitarian. They can display your favorite antiquing finds or offer guests a place to set their shoes or bags. A decorative entryway table can adapt to whatever your entryway needs the most, blending style and practicality effortlessly.
If you're seeking entryway ideas or a few decorative accents to enhance your entryway table, we've got you covered. Ahead, you'll find 20 of House Beautiful's favorite decorative entryway table ideas. From apartment hallways to sprawling, grand foyers, read on for our ultimate decorative entryway table inspiration guide and transform your entryway into a welcoming, stylish space.
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Get Playful
Your entryway is the introduction to both your home and your personality, so it should reflect both. Choose playful pieces, like this swan table, if traditional is not your style.
Shop the Look: Regency Style Swan Table
Make It a Pair
The more the merrier is true in maximalist interiors, so why only have one entryway table when you can have two? This pair of marble columns allows for one to be a drop zone for keys, while the other can hold florals or other decorative objects.
Shop the Look: Marble Plinth
Prioritize Comfort
Rather than an oversized console, opt for a smaller cocktail table to place keys and your phone. The bench in this home's entryway serves as a comfortable place to put on shoes and get situated before heading out the door.
Shop the Look: Cocktail Table
Showcase Antiques
Your entryway is a great place to let your favorite antique or thrifting finds shine. After all, it's the area of your home that gets the most foot traffic!
Shop the Look: Framed Artwork
Try a Trunk
Console tables, while very pretty, don't offer much storage. If you lack closet space, opt for a storage trunk in your entryway to house shoes and seasonal accessories. You can still style it as you would any other decorative entryway table.
Shop the Look: Antique Storage Trunk
Mix Up the Textures
This Spanish-style entryway features a woven bamboo console table instead of traditional wood or metal. The dark hue also helps to marry the contrasting tiles.
Shop the Look: Bamboo Console Table
Forgo the Table Entirely
Your entryway table should work for your needs—and sometimes that means ditching the table entirely in favor of a comfortable shoe bench and hanging hooks instead.
Shop the Look: Entryway Bench
Wall-Mount Your Table
For narrow entryways, larger consoles may crowd the space too much. Streamline your entry by choosing a table you can mount to limit its width.
Shop the Look: Ripple Console
Fill Your Space
If you're lucky enough to have a grand entryway, use an oversized table to accentuate it. Designer Sheldon Harte opted for a long, almost dining table-like piece to fill the equally expansive pass-through.
Shop the Look: Stone Dog Sculpture
Keep It Minimal
Entryways are hectic enough without having to navigate around a bench or larger decorative entryway table. For a low-profile solution, choose a slim silhouette with shelving that adds storage for shoes or your favorite collectibles.
Shop the Look: Metal Console Table
Create a Zone
Intentionality is key when designing a stylish entryway, so give guests the immediate opportunity to take a load off when entering your home. A pair of armchairs flanking the decorative entryway table helps to create a relaxing air.
Shop the Look: Rose Tarlow Armchair
Bigger Is Better
If you have towering ceilings, accentuate that height to make guests feel awe-inspired upon entering. The long mirror and oversized branches here help to draw the eye upwards.
Shop the Look: Faux Blossom Branch
Coordinate with Your Wallpaper
The moody botanical wallpaper in this entryway makes a strong first impression, so to keep it streamlined, all the table accessories align with the print's color palette.
Shop the Look: Canopy in Sage, York Wallpapers
Mirror Your Home's Design
Your decorative entryway table should align with the rest of your home's style and aesthetics. Take inspiration from this minimal entryway that perfectly complements the rest of the subdued interior.
Shop the Look: Acacia Wooden Bowl
Include Closed Storage
Many console tables only offer shelving or open storage, but if you want to ensure a true clutter-free entryway, closed storage is the way to go. Now, junk mail, extra scarves, and spare keys have a place to hide out of sight and out of mind.
Shop the Look: Stained Glass Lamp
Align Your Lighting
Warm entryway lighting is key to a welcoming home, especially once the sun has gone down. For a design-savvy look, be sure to center your light fixture (if it's hung from the ceiling) over your decorative entryway table.
Shop the Look: Large Ceramic Vase
Don't Forget to Accessorize
While functional, decorative entryway tables don't have to be minimal. Style yours with greenery, objects, books, and other tchotchkes for a true introduction to your home's personality.
Shop the Look: Christian Siriano Stool
Add a Sconce
A large, overhead lighting fixture isn't always an option for smaller entryways. Instead, choose a slim, overhanging sconce to offer task lighting where you need it most.
Shop the Look: Swing Arm Sconce
Keep It Decorative
A grab-and-go station may not be exactly what you need in an entryway. Instead of function, prioritize style with chic styling of strictly decorative objects you love.
Shop the Look: Ceramic Vase with Handles
Hang a Mirror
As you dash out the door, your decorative entryway table is often your last stop. Hang a mirror for easier last-minute lipstick checks.
Shop the Look: Round Wall Mirror
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