Our 12 Favorite Sideboards

Keep silverware, fancy napkins and napkin rings in your sideboard’s drawers. Use the piece’s spacious cabinets to stack plates and bowls and store table runners or tablecloths. Sideboards can also protect fragile china safe from rambunctious kids or pets.

Holly Muller paired an antique mirror with an industrial cart to create a striking sideboard in her Portland home. Photo by Bret Gum.

Take advantage of your sideboard’s long and wide surface. Set paintings, candles, pictures and flower vases on top to add your personality to the piece. For those hectic times of year when family and friends gather in your dining room for big meals, use the expansive surface to host platters of your favorite holiday meals and create an assembly line. Having trouble narrowing down your choices? Don’t sweat it. We compared drawer-to-cabinet ratio, artistic appeal and storage capability to compile our favorite sideboards. Add one of these 12 to your cottage-style dining and living spaces right now.

We love the window shutter doors on this antique wood sideboard. With a simple design and spacious storage, this piece will round out your dining room.

If you want an elegantly detailed dining room piece, we only have two words for you: Mauzy! Sideboard! The hood green grey color can pass as a neutral and will complement your room’s aesthetic.

Giantex sideboard with wine storage from Amazon

Who doesn’t want great wine storage in their dining room or kitchen? The Giantex sideboard’s simple design topped with a wooden veneer flawlessly mixes modern with rustic.

wooden sideboard with iron accents and hand-carved doors

Diamond-shaped iron handles pop from the distressed wood on this Kosas Home gem, and the intricately hand-carved doors make the Allen sideboard worth every penny.

a white Saguenay sideboard from Joss and Main

Simple but classic, the Saguenay sideboard will fit right into your cottage-style home, whether near the beach or in the countryside.

grey blue sideboard with windowed doors and distressed finish from Houzz

This beautiful blue Bayshore sideboard is yearning for someone to display colorful dining ware in its glass-windowed doors.

The Galloway rustic wooden sideboard with mirrored doors

Mirror, mirror on your sideboard – you’ll have the fairest dining room of them all with this rustic Galloway four-door sideboard.

The grey Kratz sideboard with iron accents from Wayfair

Dark pine wood with iron accents and plenty of drawer storage? Count us in! The Kratz Sideboard will impeccably contrast with light colored room decor and dining ware.

a stained Hepburn sideboard with eyelet holes from Hayneedle

Sturdy and stylish. Crafted from mango wood, the Hepburn sideboard’s hand-carved medallion filigree doors add exquisite detail to a reliable dining piece.

A white Tiphaine sideboard with a dark wood top and mirrored doors from Birchlane

Can you tell we love cool doors yet? Here’s another one for you: the two-toned Tiphaine sideboard with mirrored doors, a bit of distressing and antique pewter hardware.

A bright red Safavieh sideboard with open storage

Don’t be afraid to add a pop of color to your dining area! Let the Safavieh Charlotte sideboard in Egyptian Red stand out from your other neutral dining furniture and keep your room looking fresh in every season.

The cream Wooten sideboard with open wine storage and iron accents from Wayfair

Minor distressing, iron accents and ample wine storage makes this Wooten sideboard irresistible.

If you loved our sideboard guide, check out our summer wall art shopping list, faves from H&M’s home collection or modern industrial furniture style guide. Of course, don’t forget to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest to get your daily dose of cottage inspiration!