5 Coffee Table Styles To Suit Your Personality

What coffee table is best for you? Here we take a look at 5 top coffee table styles to help you make the right choice.

Modern Coffee Table

Modern coffee tables are known as a piece of furniture that has been produced from the late 19th century until modern times.

These tables may be made out of many different shapes and sizes as well as materials. They are most influenced by the most modern time of its conception.

Some are round steel tables with glass surfaced tops. They may even have a second top below the first top.

Others are rectangular and made of wood with straight sharp lines around the edges. They don’t necessarily all look the same because they do come from different time periods.

And depending on what the fashion of that decade was will reflect on the style of the coffee table.

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Contemporary Coffee Table

Now a contemporary coffee table may get confused with a modern-day coffee table. At least the word contemporary and modern seem quite similar.

But as was mentioned earlier the modern coffee table is a table made from a specific time period from the late 19th century until the present day.

The contemporary coffee table refers to what is in fashion in today’s present world. some of these tables you may find at an art dealers gallery.

Because contemporary is often defined by art. Contemporary art and expressionism of the current times.

When looking for a contemporary piece of furniture it is fun to research current and popular artists. Some of these artists are quite skilled in making furniture.

And some furniture makers are inspired by current artists. You may even want to think about hiring a furniture maker to build a coffee table for your own personal taste to reflect your own personality.

Industrial Coffee Table

Industrial coffee tables refer to a certain look. That look is of something useful as if it were a tool. The materials are usually made from metal and wood.

They may even have wheels to make them mobile. It has a very masculine look to it. It also has a nostalgic look of the industrial revolution boom.

These coffee tables exude confidence, masculinity, purposefulness, style, and it also is nostalgic.

Even if the person observing the table has never touched a hammer when they view an industrial coffee table

They will be inspired to build something or at least sit-down and have a coffee and use the table to rest it’s cup and ponder how to build an empire.

Cottage Coffee Table

The cottage coffee table is a very simple coffee table. It can go in any room of the house and be used for almost any purpose.

The Cottage coffee table is like a cottage in regards to its simplicity, it’s warm feel, and it’s ordinary but charming quality.

These coffee tables generally are much more feminine in appearance with its softer edges and natural curves.

These tables usually have a warm simple country like style painting or patterns printed on them.

They turned legs on these coffee tables are usually a telltale sign of a cottage coffee table as well.

These tables are usually square, rectangular or round shaped.

Contributor Krisna Garcia. Is a freelance writer about beauty, fashion, lifestyle, and design. I’m fond of trying out different healthy diets and hoping to have the opportunity to travel the world.