Square Coffee Table
by Elena
When deciding on the perfect coffee table for the room you’re furnishing, you can’t help but consider the square coffee table. You will not find another piece of furniture with so much diversity in available materials, styles and designs. For the purpose of this article, I’m actually referring to both square coffee tables and rectangular coffee tables, as most manufacturers and retailers categorize them as the same basic furniture piece.
How to Select a Square Coffee Table
Just because a square coffee table is so stylistically flexible doesn’t mean you can avoid careful consideration of how it will fit with your existing décor. A contemporary glass square coffee table will look odd and awkward in an ornately traditional living room and a richly detailed Victorian square coffee table will look startling and wrong in an environment filled with minimalist designs or a modern Asian theme.
This may sound obvious, but you might find yourself startled to learn how often people don’t consider the way the texture and design of a piece matches the rest of the room. They just develop a crush on a particular square coffee table then force it into whatever environment they own, often creating an accidental eyesore right in the middle of a heavily used space.
Next you need to consider the function you require in the room to adopt a new square coffee table. For example, will it be a room with elegant furnishings intended as sitting room for entertaining guests, or will it be a heavily used room with the TV and where children will lounge and play?
Square Coffee Table
This makes quite a bit of difference. For function and practicality, you might prefer square lift top coffee tables or you may just want a contemporary coffee table with plenty of drawers for storing magazines and such. Or you may seek clean, simple square coffee table which puts more emphasis on items you place atop it, such as plants, vases or really nice coffee table books.
So be sure to consider both the style of your room and the function you require from your new square coffee table.
Styles of Square Coffee Tables
Many find a square coffee table appealing because it can come in such a wide variety of appearances. You’ll find square coffee tables created with all manner of materials, from iron and glass to an enormous range of different woods with different colors and grain patterns.
Even within a single wood, like with oak square coffee tables, you’ll find a wide range of styles and themes, from a mission square coffee table to small square end coffee tables.
Perhaps a simple pine coffee table will suit your needs. Or perhaps a finely crafted cherry square coffee table will best match your room’s décor. Or for some, delicate details with gold-colored or brass hardware provide the antique look they desire.
Start by selecting either modern or traditional, and from there you’ll find the styles subdivide further and further until you find something uniquely appealing to you. For example, within traditional you’ll find ornate antique pieces and you’ll find simple pieces with dark wood and traditional designs. Within modern, you’ll find a simple square wood coffee table with basic shapes and clean lines while you’ll also find an exotic square glass coffee table with luxurious bevels and a sparkling surface or sharp-looking small, black square coffee table.
Shopping For Your Square Coffee Table
As with any significant purchase, I urge you to shop around before you open your wallet and commit your money. You’ll find yourself growing more knowledgeable as you shop, and a coffee table you thought was perfect when you first began the process will begin to seem somehow inappropriate for your situation as your knowledge and exposure to different possibilities increases.
These days you simply must take advantage of the Internet. You can view and consider an enormous variety of styles and appearances in very little time with very little effort. You can also gain a much broader understanding of the different price ranges for different coffee table manufacturers and coffee table styles.
Don’t necessarily commit to buying online, but definitely begin your comparison shopping on the web. For example, sometimes you’ll be sure you found the best deal for that ideal square coffee table on a certain website, only to reach the checkout page where you learn the exorbitant cost of shipping the piece to your home.
Even if you do choose to buy online, I still recommend visiting some furniture showrooms before you make your choice. Sometimes nothing compares to really standing and sitting around specific coffee tables to determine how they look and feel when you’re around them. And sometimes it is simply the only way to grasp a real sense of their scale. You might not realize that large square coffee table was just too large until you stood next to it.
I hope this helped you open your eyes to different things you should consider when evaluating different square coffee tables for your home. Be deliberate and thoughtful with your selection, as your new square coffee table will likely be with you for years to come, becoming an oft-forgotten part of many great and poignant memories.