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Modern Console Table

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

Here’s some truth about my renovations…. I do not know everything I’m going to do before I start! When I made plans for my new modern entryway, I didn’t know what the design on my feature wall was going to be, or what colour of paint I would use, or how we would hang our coats, lol. I don’t think I even considered putting a table in there.  But as the room came together, it was obvious that something was missing. I looked up a few tables, but they were all out of my budget (as everything I love is! lol). So we grabbed an old console table and gave it some DIY love!

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

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So this is the table we started with. Nothing special. I had purchased it a long time ago and now it was just sitting behind our couch waiting for a new home. Any old hallway table or entry table with an open space would work for this project too! But I really didn’t want to add it into the space as is….

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

What do you call that material? Rattan? I don’t know, but I knew I didn’t want it in the entry. It was the wrong texture for the space. The colour was also wrong – it’s hard to tell in the photos, but it’s that browny-black colour, and in person, looked brown. Instead I wanted something clean and modern to match the rest of my design plans.

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

While we were redoing our Tiled Entry Bench, a light bulb went off! What if we replaced that space on the console with tile! We had used a beautiful 6×12″ Basalt Tile on the bench, but we had some samples of the 4×16 Basalt tiles too – which would fit perfectly….Brilliant! 

How to update a console table with tile:

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

We started by removing the old material, which was backed by these hardboard pieces, and we kept the hardboard backing.

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

Next, we cut our Basalt tile pieces (which were 4×16″), using a wet saw, to the same size as the insert was before. Ours were the perfect width, so we only had to cut the height, but depending on your piece and your tile, you may need to cut both. Here’s what it looked like (above) on top of the backing hardboard. The holes are where the previous screws were and we thought – why not just reuse those holes!

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

Next, we wanted our modern tile to stick out, just as it did on the finished Entry Bench, so we used an Enhancing Sealer to seal the porous tile and darken the colour. Worked beautifully!

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

Before we set to work returning the tiles to the console, we also spent some time painting the entire furniture piece with this beautiful rich black paint (always my go-to for furniture!).

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

Finally, we lined up the tile pieces against the opening of the black console table, put the hardboard backing in place, and screwed it on.

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile! Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

A beautiful tile project that doesn’t require any grout or thinset! What could be better! This project has me inspired with so many other tile ideas – or maybe just another hallway table, lol. I hope you got some inspiration too!

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile! Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

LOVE the final look of the tile in place. Ties in with the rest of the Modern Entry perfectly, and gives the beautiful clean lines I was hoping for in a console!

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile! Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile! Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

Here is the beautiful TILED ENTRY BENCH that I mentioned before!

This gorgeous modern entryway reveal is here! What a huge transformation from the outdated space it once was! From the beautiful bench, to the herringbone floors, to the black front door, and the wood accent feature wall. This entry is stunning!

These projects were both part of our beautiful MODERN ENTRY REVEAL!

If you like upcycling furniture, you may also love these DIY Dressers!

Beautiful DIY Dresser Makeovers! Take thrifted dressers, and turn them into something modern and new with a sander and the best paint for furniture! LOVE the hairpin legs!

Beautiful Furniture Transformation! Use leftover tile to upcycle an old console table into a beautiful, modern piece in just a few steps. Beautiful narrow table for the entry or hallway. Such a wonderful use of leftover tile!

Payal Parekh

Monday 23rd of July 2018

Love the transformation! Would you mind sharing details on what you used for the feature wall? What size trim or moulding is it and how you made the cuts etc.?

Lindivs

Monday 23rd of July 2018

Yes! I'm actually sharing that tutorial on Wednesday! Come back to see exactly how we made it in a couple of days :)

Robin

Thursday 19th of July 2018

This is a great way to up cycle a piece! I love how it turned out

Lindivs

Thursday 19th of July 2018

Thank you!! It’s such a statement piece now! :)