Coffee Tables: How To Make The Right Choice For Your Home
Jesse Akre
Have you ever been in a home where the coffee table absolutely
dwarfed the rest of the room? It can be hard to have a
conversation when the sofa and recliners are separated by a
table that seems more suited to having a picnic than to hosting
guests and serving coffee. Then there are those perfect coffee
tables that happen to be too high or low so that you either
need to stand up or kneel down to retrieve a drink. Let’s face
it: the coffee table is one difficult piece of furniture to get
right and when we get it wrong—we get it REALLY wrong!
The perfect coffee table for your home décor will be unique for
all of us. However, there are some things to avoid when buying a
coffee table to make sure that you don’t get the WRONG coffee
table for your furniture and design scheme. One of those
mistakes is buy premium coffee tables that are not to scale
with the room dimensions.
Depending on your furniture arrangement, it is a good idea for
the coffee table to be within 16 inches of the sofa, love seat,
and any chairs that are central to the main seating area. The
larger the seating area, the larger the coffee table needs to
be. The idea is for guests to have access to the coffee table
without feeling cramped when getting in and out of their seats.
It is also a good idea to measure not only the dimensions of the
room, but also of any doorways leading into the room as well. If
the delivery people can’t get the table through the door then it
doesn’t matter how great it would look in your living room.
Another common mistake people tend to make with coffee tables
is to use them as storage spaces. One of the secrets to home
décor is to always have a focal point to the room. The coffee
table is a natural focal point of the room because it is
generally found near the center of the room and featured in
front of the seating area. However, when homeowners use their
gorgeous coffee tables as storage areas for bills, newspapers,
and anything else convenient, then it is easy to see how the
entire area becomes unattractive. Prominently displaying
candles, centerpieces, accent lamps, and other artistic décor
will help the coffee table become the focal point of the room
and bring an entirely different feel to the entire seating
area.
About The Author: Jesse Akre, owner of numerous furniture
websites, makes it easy to find contemporary
http://www.onlytables.com/coffee-tables.html and
http://www.onlytables.com/end-tables.html . Learn how to
decorate your home in style by clicking the following link:
http://www.OnlyTables.com.
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