Home Coffee Tables. Furniture Coffee Table.
There are so many possibilities for coffee tables online and some of the best coffee table sites are listed on this page. But Amazon is such a great source for new and used coffee tables, that you should look there. Here are the coffee tables that are currently available on Amazon.com. You can hover over any image to find more information or you can use the SEARCH box in the bottom of the window to find something specific:
One of the sites that specializes in coffee tables is CoffeeTablesGalore.com and you can see their selection here:
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HAPPENING PLACE: Home coffee tables
A living room without a good coffee table is like a gallery without pictures. A home coffee table says volumes about the people who own it, so it is important to choose one with care. After all, this piece of furniture has come to be associated with conservation and bonhomie, hence the term “gathering around the coffee table”.
Chat seat
Coffee gained popularity in Europe and America much later than tea, so it is no surprise that home coffee tables were late additions to the repertory of drawing room furniture, as Alex Aronson confirms in his “Encyclopaedia of Furniture”. The first tables, specifically designed and built to serve as home coffee tables in Europe, can be traced back to the late Victorian era, around the 1860s. From available historical records, it seems the E.W. Godwin was the first European designer of the coffee table, which was then mass produced by William Watt and Collinson and Lock.
I have always found it strange that an entirely different kind of table was needed just because the drink in the cup changed from tea to coffee. But then I worked out the logic behind this. Tea drinking was a formal affair in Europe, with its own set of etiquettes. So it was conducted on a high table with matched wooden chairs. Coffee drinking had more informal origins, so the table devised for it was low, so that one could put ‘down’ one’s cup between sips as one carries on chatting on the sofa. Home coffee tables are always meant to accompany sofas, the seats of light, gossipy conversation.
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Tradition and modernity
Wood is still the most preferred material when it comes to home coffee tables. Birch, beech, oak, ash and teak are commonly used types of wood. Glass has gained some popularity in this segment, but it’s still a long way before it can catch up with wood. There was a time when a home coffee table used to be a low, rectangular wood table on four legs. The day of simple, minimalist designs are past, but it must be said that the new designs serve more purposes than the simple ones did.
Let’s take storage, for example. Most modern home coffee tables have a lower shelf, where one can stack newspapers and books and magazines. Of course, the top is also used for displaying books, specially large and richly illustrated books that have come to be known as “coffee table books”. Some designs try to maximize the storage space by including drawers, casters and cabinets, giving the table a kitchen island or a farmhouse look.
Mix ‘n’ match
Depending on the overall décor of your home, and the living room in particular, the choice of the home coffee table should be made. If most of the furniture is modern, then it wouldn’t do any good to have a traditional oak coffee table in slatted woodwork. To fit in with the look, you should choose a glass-top table, the more futuristic looking the better. On the other hand, for your ranch home, go for the most basic and traditional home coffee table. You could, however, try to create variations on the shade of polish on the wood, in keeping with the upholstery on your sofa. A slate shade of polish would go nicely with dark florals, while the traditional brown could combine well with earth coloured furnishings.
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