What is on your sideboard?

[Blankiefan]

We've just got a sideboard for our living room. It's white and oak and I've put a large mirror on the wall above it. I've got a new lamp on one end and a few candles on the other but it looks a bit empty. What else can we put on it. I was thinking about a big vase or plant or both.

What is on yours?

Pile of books.
Some old receipts.
A banana.
Four hair bobbles.
A shopping list.

Dust

Purpledaises I like your design choices there ...

Plants, a glass bowl and a kitten.

Thanks! Obviously I thought hard about what to put on my side board. I forgot to add two flies to my list. That was unintentional design though.

flowers and framed photos

A music box
Clock
Photos
Candles
Two steiff bears

A cake stand doubling as a fruit bowl but has paper lips and other sundry crap on it instead
A clock radio
2 piles of CDs
A ginger jar waiting to go to charity
Neville Longbottom’s wand in a box

Oh no I just sold my side board as it was getting fit to burst with 'stuff', not to mention on the top becoming a breeding ground for dumped keys, lip balms, blu tac, bobbles anything else you could possibly think odd and random. sorry I am absolutely no help.

Kitchen is being done so sideboard is covered in plates, cutlery, bottles etc. Usually though, fruit bowl, jug of flowers. Books.

Framed photos, candles and a fruit bowl (mines in the dining room)

An orangutan
Alexa
A pic of the kids
Smart meter (hidden behind the orangutan)
Thermostat

I have two sideboards!

One in kitchen/diner has Sonos speaker, Georg Jensen carafe, salt and pepper pots from Morocco, and three different candle holders and candles.

Other one in entrance hall/piano room has lamp, telephone, photos of DCs, glass bowl and a pile of DH's toot that he leaves like letters, coins, headphones etc etc.

Alexa, an oil burner and stuff my 2yr old can't reach - but he now can 🙄

i didnt know people still had sideboards!

Photos, candles, fruit bowl, party invites and general CRAP!! 🤣

Alexa. A vase, photo frame, coffee set (my grandmother's) and a glass fruit bowl that should contain fruit but currently contains my admin.

I gave a dresser rather than a sideboard

It mainly has a three-tier filing tray, piled so high it needs a weight on top, plus another pile of random Stuff alongside 🙄

Also a lamp & a scentsy warmer

Not a pretty sight really

DH's solution appears to be a fuckton of empty envelopes that he has extracted mail from and abandoned...

I don't have one but I keep asking dw if we can have one! Id have a lamp on it and my essential oil diffuser.

Radio/speaker, table lamp, framed picture of kids, flowers, candles.

A little basket of cat toys

A remote controlled LED candle

Framed photos

Owl ornament

Vase with fresh flowers

A half decoupaged reindeer head, a glass cake dish, two carbon dioxide detectors waiting to go on the wall.

A watch, glass of wine, my xmas present and some post it notes.