Choosing a coffee table: tips from professionals

The interior of each room should have its own "highlight". In the living room, this role is most often given to the fireplace and, oddly enough, to the coffee table, which, albeit often has a very modest size, but can become a truly exclusive decoration of the lounge and reception guests. Well, who doesn’t like to sit on a comfortable sofa in his living room and read a book or magazine, watch TV or chat with guests? But you can enhance the pleasure of your favorite activities with a cup of hot tea or coffee, a delicious pie, fruit or homemade dessert.

However, in the living room, where there is upholstered furniture and expensive fleecy carpets, the appearance of food and drinks, which can randomly stain upholstery, is completely undesirable. Nevertheless, you will not have to deny yourself pleasure if there is a compact but very necessary piece of furniture in the living room - a coffee table. On it you can place a fruit basket and a scallop with sweets and nuts, you can to put cups with a hot drink or candles, a bottle of wine and glasses if it’s a romantic dinner.

And thus, an amazing and attractive corner will appear in the living room, which will set the mood for the entire interior, filling the room with a friendly, relaxing, fun or romantic atmosphere.

If you were visited by the idea to buy a coffee table, then the choice of this piece of furniture should be taken responsibly. Today there is a huge variety of coffee tables, so choosing one thing can be very difficult. So, first you need to decide on the functions that you assign to your future coffee table.

Since the shapes and sizes of coffee tables can be different, then if you intend to place a large number of objects on your table, it is better to choose an option with a larger tabletop area. By the way, if you do not mind having lunch in the living room, or if you like to arrange romantic dinners with your soulmate, then it is advisable to consider such an option as a coffee transformer table. In the normal state, it does not take up much space, and for a special occasion it can turn into a full-fledged table, at which two people can sit for a meal.

Another important point: if in your living room there are no pieces of furniture (such as shelving) for storing newspapers, magazines, books, music discs and other things for entertainment, you should look after a coffee table that can accommodate all these things. Keep in mind that such coffee tables can have shelves and drawers under the countertop, moreover, the countertop itself can lean back up, thus providing a place where you can place, say, a video game console, or the same magazines with books.

Remember that coffee tables made of different materials can, to one degree or another, affect the overall appearance of the interior. For example, a glass coffee table can give the living room more lightness and sophistication, while a wooden coffee table will look “heavier”, but richer and more solid.

Again, glass or metal tables fit seamlessly into the hi-tech interior, while wooden coffee tables are more conservative in style.

Well, in order for the selected coffee table to be able to serve for a long time, you need to pay attention to all its details so that they are firmly connected, not stagger and dangle. If you expect that the table will often move from place to place - consider the option on wheels, so as not to spoil the flooring and legs of the table.

If you have defined a coffee transformer table as ideal for yourself, then make sure that all the mechanisms work well, the table quickly and easily unfolds and folds. Of course, the materials must be strong and reliable, resistant to various temperatures, in case you put heavy objects, hot mugs with drinks, bowls with ice cream or champagne in a bucket with ice.

Speaking of design, the following can be noted: a coffee table can completely merge into the interior, harmonizing in all respects with the main furniture, and radically different from it, attracting everything attention to yourself.