Round Glass Coffee Tables

Coffee tables seem to be a problem. It’s one of the things I am most often asked about, and yet there are so many of them around, it’s hard to understand why we seem to find it so difficult.

I think one of the issues is that many coffee tables are small delicate things. By the time you’ve put said coffee and perhaps a (coffee table) book or a vase of flowers on it, it’s full. And where, then, are we supposed to put our feet? Because let’s be honest, part of the joy of a coffee table is as a place to rest your feet (while, perhaps watching television or chatting).

Or, if you have a coffee table in a room other than the tv room – perhaps imagine this, a room wherein you actually drink coffee – you usually end up wanting to put more on it than just a couple of mugs and a plate of biscuits.

My coffee table is immense. It’s very old and, I think, may have once been a refectory dining table or large farmhouse kitchen table that had its legs cut down. There is room for books, feet, wine, water and even, on occasion, more often than it should be, supper. When the boys were small they would just sit on it to watch the television, rather than on the sofa behind.

For a long time the nest of tables was very infra dig. A twee little thing that your Granny had and that was kept all nested up in the corner until needed. But that has changed. These days you can have as many coffee tables as you want. You want a big one one and can’t find the right thing? Buy three instead.

This brass and glass from Holly’s House is a perfect example. Although they do stack together, keep them next to each other. Use one for the eponymous coffee table books and display and the other for mugs and glasses. You could even add a third one to the mix – plain brass for example, like this one:

That way you have the roundness and the brassiness (but in a good way) to tie them together but they are at different heights and will hold that large space in front of a sofa together much better than they would on their own. You can try your own grouping of small coffee tables. Remember; keep a couple of elements the same – either the shape, the colour or the material then vary whichever one of those is left over and change the heights as well.

Right then coffee table problem. Solved.