A coffee table is often bought as part of a soft furniture set as part of it. And this is a good decision, because in this case it harmoniously fits into the interior of the living room, coupled with a sofa and soft armchairs.
However, many people who are sensitive to the design of the main room in the apartment, select each item separately, guided by their own instinct or the advice of designers. In this case, you first need to decide for what purposes you need this seemingly not very significant, but very important piece of furniture. After all, a precisely selected coffee table can become a unifying center of the interior of your
living room.It may be needed:
- for purely decorative purposes. It’s infrequent, but there are such purchases, especially from antique lovers who have been collecting rare pieces of furniture of the same era, style, one workshop, or even author’s works for years. They are proud of such objects, treat them very carefully, almost like museum values. This is often the case;
- for practical purposes, a coffee table is purchased more often. In such cases, these furnishings are used to store small things, books and magazines on them that you always want to have on hand.Convenient tables with additional shelves and even drawers located under the countertop;
- many families spending evenings together like to sit in the living room, use a coffee table to have a bite to eat, without stopping to watch an interesting program or movie, mug or drink a glass of good wine in a cozy atmosphere. Here you will need a special table of convenient height and configuration, so that you do not have to bend low above it, so that it is convenient for everyone sitting;
- It is very common to use a coffee table as a platform for board games. In this case, you need to think about its surface, on which you will probably throw solid objects or on which you will move fairly heavy figures.
Now, having determined the purpose of the table, you can choose the interior item that is most suitable in shape, material and design.
Choosing the shape of the countertops, remember that a larger number of people will fit behind an oval table if necessary. Square and rectangular tables with sharp corners are unsafe if there are small children in the house.
The materials from which coffee tables can now be made are very diverse. The most popular are wood, glass, metal and plastic. A glass coffee table, for example, does not clutter up the space, adds style to the whole living room environment (especially in combination with wood or metal), is durable and little susceptible to changes in temperature and humidity. Good demand for wooden tables due to the beauty of the texture of this material, its environmental friendliness, variety of shapes and strength.
Recently, a large number of new structural forms of this type of furniture have appeared on the furniture market. Special attention of buyers is now using a transformer coffee table, capable of the most unexpected transformations. With a flick of the wrist, the table turns into a place for family dinner, rising to the desired height, or into a minibar, or into a work surface with a special shelf for a laptop.
It is important to pay attention to the choice of this piece of furniture because, having bought it, you can significantly enrich the living room environment by giving it new peculiar notes, or you can spoil it with an ill-considered purchase.