How to Style a Sofa Table for Early Spring

Do the words “early spring” make your heart beat faster? If you have a table that serves as an entry table or sofa table or any table, I have some ideas about how to style a sofa table for early spring.

Spring is a great time for restyling, redesigning, or just refreshing your sofa/console table.

Since all tables are great spots for decorating, let’s start with styling a sofa table for spring.

Tables come in all shapes, sizes, and styles. There are side tables and coffee tables and dining tables. For this early spring decor project, we are focusing on skinny tables.

Sometimes called console tables, these tables are perfect for entries, narrow hallways, and behind sofas. I have a sofa table that I decorate with seasonal and holiday vignettes.

This sofa table is one of my favorite pieces. We’ve had it for years. The tips for styling a sofa table are the same for styling a coffee table or a console table.

My early spring sofa table needed items that would give a fresh, barely spring feel. Where did I find those items? I shopped our house to find the decorative items to decorate our sofa table.

Early Spring Sofa Table Styling

It’s almost the end of February – the month when we say goodbye winter, hello spring.) Are you as ready for spring as I am?

If we can’t yet plant flowers outside, we can bring the feeling of spring indoors. I’ve already decorated our home for early spring with a simple, but charming mantel.

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What’s next on the spring decorating agenda? Our sofa table.

I love a sofa table. Why is it such a great piece of furniture?

• It can hide the back of a sofa, especially helpful when the back of the sofa faces the entrance to a room.
• It provides space for additional accent lighting.
• It provides extra space for decorative items.
• If it has drawers or a lower shelf, it provides extra storage.
• It adds another design element in a room.
• It adds another material – either wood, rattan, metal, or glass.

History of Our Sofa Table

This sofa table originally was custom made from recycled pine as our pine kitchen table. It was 7 feet by 3 feet.

For years, it was a breakfast room table.Then we used it as a large game table in the gameroom of our former home.

When our older son moved out, I took over his bedroom as my office and used the pine table as my large desk.

When Sweet Shark and I downsized, we were in an apartment for a year while we shopped for and then remodeled our current home. I placed the kitchen table in an extra bedroom and used it again as a desk.

Once we found our current home, I thought about the furniture we had that could be reused or needed to be sold. I thought the pine table would be perfect as a sofa table – if it were cut down to a narrow width.

I had a furniture woodworker cut down the table to 18 inches wide. You would never know that it was cut down.

Now I was ready to style my sofa table.

Pine was not part of the style for our new home. So, of course, I painted the table in a two-toned (cream and sage green) with a textured finish on top. A few years later I sanded off the texture and repainted the top white.

We used table both as a sofa table in the living room and as a console table in our breakfast room.

As much as I loved this sofa table, when we bought new furniture for our living room a couple of years ago, the sofa table just wouldn’t fit in the room.

In all honesty, our sofa table is now on the landing on our staircase. It is still used as a sofa table with matching lamps, family pictures and decorative items. The angle was awkward to get this shot.

Inspiration for a Sofa Table

Pinterest is my go-to inspiration for home decor ideas. Although I subscribe to several shelter magazines, I enjoy finding inspiration from other bloggers, designers, and content creators.

The idea for this early spring sofa table came from Amanda Marie of Sincerely, Marie Designs.

What makes this sofa table such a inspirational classic?

Elements of an Early Spring Sofa Table

Let’s look at all the different elements that Amanda Marie included in her early spring sofa table

• white tray
• birds
• fresh greenery
• white flowers
• books
• candle
• baskets

With those elements in mind, I thought about what I had on hand to include in my early spring sofa table. In addition to what was Amanda Marie included, I would add:

• a lamp
• a lantern
• white ceramic vases

The “Before” of Our Sofa Table

There was one big difference between our inspiration photo and my sofa table. Amanda Marie’s sofa table is seen from the back of her sofa.

My sofa is also behind our sofa, but it’s between the sofa and the large picture window in our living room. You can’t really see the sofa table, just what is on it.

Here’s what it looked like before last week.The sofa is hard to reach and decorate when it’s behind the sofa.

First, I pulled the sofa away from the table so I could get behind it for styling. You can see that I use this space for basket storage.

TIP: Now is a good time to sweep behind the sofa.

It was also a good time to turn the cushions and straighten them.

Next, I removed everything except the lamp from the sofa table.

Just FYI, the entire backyard was covered in snow on this day. The sun was so bright and reflecting on the snow.

Styling the Sofa Table for Spring

It was now time to give the sofa table some early spring style.

Since driving to the store was out of the question last week. I had to use what I had.

Leaving the Lamp

As you can see, the table can’t be seen from the front of the sofa. That’s a shame since it has some nice turned legs and the two-toned paint treatment.

We have to have the lamp on that side of the table as a reading light.

The Greenery and Books

For my greenery, I didn’t have a basket the right size, so I added a white ceramic pot of real pothos to the table. White and green is always a fabulous color combination for home decor this time of year.

More coffee table books raise the height level. They also bring in pattern and color on the covers.

Large coffee table books are one of my favorite things to use in home decor. They are great tools to create more height and raise your decorative accessories.

Our picture window is so big, I quickly realized that I needed a bigger plant. Fortunately, I had another pot of pothos. This one isn’t real – it’s a $5.00 buy from an estate sale.

This plant has a little more presence on the sofa table. I also added more books to raise the height.

Check off the greenery from the list of elements.

The Lantern and Candle

To anchor the other end of the sofa table, I used an awesome metal lantern that we bought two years ago in Granbury, Texas. (Great small town with restaurants and shops and flea markets.) It’s shape and style adds interest to my early spring sofa table.

I also added a candle inside and set the lantern on more coffee table books.

Check off the lantern and the candle from the list.

Tray, White Flowers, and Whimsy

Next on the list of elements was a white tray. Rather than use a white tray, I used a tray with a natural finish. A white vase provided more height and a pop of white.

Some of my vintage clay pots and a small nest added springtime items.

I was just about through with the sofa table. It did need a little more spring fauna. I had some faux white tulips on hand and added those to the pot of pothos.

Check off spring flowers from the list.

Now was a good time to change out a few pillows on the sofa. I removed the white fluffy ones with pom-poms (my favorite DIY winter pillows) and added a couple more neutral ones. The colors go well with my oatmeal-colored cable sweater throw from Target.

I declared my early spring sofa finished. I liked the varying heights, the different materials and the pop of spring green. The nest and the vintage pots add whimsy.

The Last Element

Then, I realized I had left out an important element. Can you guess what it is?

Yes, the birds! I love my teal ceramic birds, especially their metal feet. I bought them several years ago at a design store in McKinney, Texas.

I also changed out one of the vases for a skinnier one and removed the vintage pots so the vignette wouldn’t be so crowded.

Check off the birds from the list.

Finally, the early spring coffee table was done – for now. In the coming weeks, the sofa table, as well as other areas of our home will get more spring touches.

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