That said, the cost of a mission or oak console table or any handmade table will be higher than those that are manufactured in larger quantities. Some private carpenters and woodworking studios also have mission furniture available for ordering from online sites, but you may want to compare products and prices before selecting which one is the best for you.

Here are some of the best choices that thousands of shoppers recommend.

• The Robie Mission Console Table is in fact a red oak table of good quality. It is about $380.

• The Viejo by Cooper Classics has something similar with a drawer and shelf, and has a little iron accenting, for about $460. There are Dark and Light wood options. While the similar design from Home Décor offers an inexpensive alternative at about $200. Also, The Viejo series has many wood console tables in Birchwood for a light finish and a fresh natural look.

  Prices range from $430 to upwards of $600 although they may offer discounts. One nice thing is that many Viejo models are shipped free of charge. Since console tables are heavy, this may be a big saving if another model is cheaper but you must pay for transport.

• There is a very particular table called The Versatile Mission Console-to-Card-to-Dinner Table that can be simple as a console unit or expanded to fit up to 6 guests as a table. It’s a good price at just under $400.

Cheap Mission Console Table Models

• There is a mission style 30 inch honey colored console table that has two drawers and is perhaps the cheapest (in this style) on the market at $169.00. It’s possible to find a merchant who uses Amazon to sell this product and many customers are very happy with this simple piece of furniture.

• One of the all-time most popular pieces of home furniture is the Mission Natural Console Table, which is small but practical for any room of the house. It’s only $90 and may well qualify as the cheapest option on the market in this style.
• Specific for your entry way or foyer is the 2 piece mission style tables that are simple and tall at 30 inches and can be matched with a mirror. These start at about $200, and are make of oak and include the mirror. They must be assembled but most customers say they are easy to put together.
• Powell has a line of mission oak wood tables and mirrors that can double as end tables, sofa tables and even house your audio/video equipment. They are good value at about $280. For the same price, Powell has a black model that is modern and a bit of a twist on the traditional mission styles.

• Linon has a complete line of budget mission console table choices and the prices are affordable at about $200. They are a rustic style with two drawers and a lower shelf for more space. There are also matching mission coffee tables and end tables and sofa table designs that will give your home a streamline look.
• Cape Craftsman Regal Tradewinds has a line of console tables with a woven top with an island feeling for under $200.
• International Concepts has an unfinished wood mission sofa table that you can decorate as you like. It’s about $190.
• Winsome Wood has a hall table that is a wood console table by design for under $80. Winsome’s Craftsman hall table is a step or two up from the little pine model. It is also made with a pine wood frame but has an antique walnut finish. It has storage shelving also and costs about $380.

In France, these originals were also known as pier tables due to where people mounted them, on the pillar or “pier wall” between two large windows. They were mostly decorative until they were slightly altered to have four legs, and while retaining either their half moon shape or narrow rectangular form, were adapted to rest either against a wall in hallway or entrance or be pressed against the backside of a large sofa.

Gradually, as console table popularity grew, they became known also as a sofa table, but this produced confusion because a true console table was not a side or end table or a coffee table but specifically a table with the height of the tall backs of 18th Century French sofas.

Then in the late 1800s, the old world European console tables gave way to a new trend that sprouted in the United States. It was the start of the console table revolution by Joseph McHugh in New York and his “mission” style furniture. These pieces were straight line, rustic designs that mimicked the chair backs of a Church in San Francisco whose chairs had been copied by the designs of a Spanish mission and therefore became known as “mission furniture”. Eventually the lines included mission console tables and just about anything “mission” you can imagine in household décor.

Although mission style didn’t remain popular straight through from the 1800’s to today, the mission console table was revived in the 70′s. Since then, mission console tables have surfaced throughout the world in creative designs that don’t confuse clean lines and simplicity with boring or poor taste.