Why Britons Return Console Tables: The UK Furniture Returns Report
Furniture in Fashion finds that console tables are returned more readily than most furniture because the console is the piece most often bought before its space has been measured. Treated as an accessory and ordered on impulse for a hall or behind a sofa, it arrives to meet a wall that is shorter, a hallway that is narrower or a radiator sitting exactly where the table should go. Our 2026 report identifies this as a measuring failure rather than a quality failure, and sets out the checks that prevent it: keeping around 90cm of clear passage in a hall, measuring the height of every fixed obstruction, and matching a console behind a sofa to the sofa back height. It explains why the British hallway is the hardest room in the house to furnish and why glass and mirrored consoles mark quickly in busy halls. No return rates are invented....
