Coffee tables in the living room interior: stylish design in the photo

The living room in each house is the heart of the home and each owner tries to equip this room so that it is not only comfortable and harmonious, but also impressive and exciting. Today, an integral part of the living room along with a comfortable sofa, armchairs and a fireplace is a coffee table, or, as they used to call it in our country, a coffee table.

The history of the coffee table

This piece of furniture hails from 1868, European Edward William Godwin is considered to be its creator. True, initially the table for the living room was about 70 cm high, and only a little later it got its usual look. However, it was this man who laid the foundation for the development of such an interesting, and most importantly, functional attribute of today's living room. And although there is no consensus on where the idea of creating a low table was borrowed from, either from the culture of the Ottoman Empire, or from the Japanese culture so popular in those times in Europe, the fact remains: today the popularity of coffee tables is so great that this item Furniture can be found in every home.

Varieties of tables

Leading furniture manufacturers quickly picked up a new-fashioned accessory so rapidly breaking into the richest houses of Europe of that century and began to make tables from a variety of materials: wood, glass, stone and copper.

With the advent of new technologies, the arsenal of materials for making coffee tables has increased significantly. In addition, its diversity made it possible to make this piece of furniture accessible to any segment of the population. At the same time, design ideas for a coffee table were developing rapidly - now you will not surprise anyone with a primitive table with carved legs or a glass tabletop. But the idea of the design itself is sometimes simply amazing. So, all coffee tables can be divided into three groups:

Practical or maximally functional tables, in which there is a sufficiently large countertop and a lot of drawers and shelves for small items.

Coffee tables - transformers. The design of such a table allows you to turn it into a ottoman, several separate tables or a banquet with a soft seat with a slight movement of the hand. The latest fashion hit of such a transformer is a table, which from a low coffee table easily turns into a large dining table at which the whole family and guests will fit.

Decorative tables, which are rarely used for their intended purpose and are only an element of decor. As a rule, such tables have not only a bizarre appearance, but they are also made of rather unusual material.

How to choose a coffee table

By what principle do people usually choose furniture? Many will agree that this often happens on the principle of "Come, see, win." However, is this correct? Even for such a small element of the interior as a coffee table, this is fundamentally wrong. First of all, when choosing this piece of furniture, the following should be considered:

the style of the living room;
color design, even if it will be a bright accent of the interior, it should ideally be combined with the colors used in the room and harmoniously fit into the design of the room;
the square of the room and directly the place for the table, especially when it comes to a small living room in the apartment.

Some practical tips

As practice shows, the most popular coffee tables are still made of wood. And this phenomenon has a logical explanation: this material fits easily into any style, fits any color scheme and is ideal in care. In addition, if you choose a table made of warm shades of wood for a room with a cool classic, the combination of black and white will immediately fill the interior with comfort and warmth, and at the same time will not lose its severity.

If you have a parquet or laminate floor, a coffee table made of wood of a similar color will be an excellent companion to it, and the overall picture of the room will benefit from this.

However, in order for your coffee table to fit perfectly into your living room, it is not at all necessary to lay a floor that is suitable in color or resort to other radical measures. It is enough to throw a few decorative pillows of a similar shade on a sofa or armchair or to put a small armchair with upholstery to match the countertop.

If there are any other cabinets or racks planned in the living room, it is good if the coffee table is made of the same material as other pieces of furniture.

Another popular material for the tabletop of a coffee table is glass, the legs of which can be from a wide variety of materials. However, when choosing a glass table, you need to be prepared to constantly dust off it, although this drawback is completely compensated by the appearance, because such a table, even with a sufficiently large size, will not clutter the room due to its transparency.

Like it or not, a coffee table is always in the center of attention in the living room, since it is around it that the main pieces of furniture are placed, such as a sofa, armchairs and ottomans. That is why the choice of such an important attribute of any living room should be approached, considering everything to the smallest detail. Starting from the purpose of this piece of furniture, namely whether it will only be a decorative element or whether it will be used for its intended purpose or whether it will only be a place for a vase with flowers or to store all kinds of magazines and notebooks, and ending with the material from which it is made.

In the end, it remains to say that it is the tastes of the owner of the home that should be decisive, because he should like the living room, and the love of his house will fill him with positive energy that any guest of the house will definitely appreciate.