Designer coffee tables - affordable luxury for everyone
Regarding designer coffee tables, the most accurate synonym for the word “luxury” is grace. No trends of time will not be able to deprive the interior of our home a symbol of dynamism and progressiveness. This piece of furniture is a “magic wand”: it always appears at the right time and place, “moving” around the house and finding work in the living room, in the bedroom, then on the loggia. In short, if it were not in the list of furniture attributes, then it certainly would have to come up.
Materials
Designer furniture is so multifaceted and eccentric that sometimes unexpected materials are used to make it. In one design, two or three types of raw materials can be concisely combined, and this will not be considered a manifestation of bad taste:
- So ordinary solid wood table natural wood can be decorated with a semiprecious stone worktop or have a glass stand, at the bottom of which is a live aquarium.
- Wooden coffee tables most in demand with the average consumer. They are cozy, give a warm friendly atmosphere to the room, regardless of the stylistic decision and the unusual shape of the design.
To harmoniously fit them into the desired interior, it is enough to choose the desired shade of wood, which will be concisely combined with the rest of the furniture.
- Glass products look modern and fresh, give airiness to any room due to its transparency. The most non-standard materials can be chosen as a table support: processed tree snags, blocks of natural stone, corals, bronze dolphins.
For the manufacture of applied hot glass, shock-resistant and able to withstand heavy loads.
- Metal - one of the most durable and durable materials. The complexity of its processing makes such models of designer tables expensive. A significant weight of finished products makes them difficult to move around the room.But the original design and long service life of objects will not leave indifferent the true connoisseurs of interior art.
Functionality
Coffee table can be chosen, depending on its purpose in the interior:
- Traditional. Usually a stationary option that can have a storage system for books, magazines and various trinkets. This product is important for the living room, in the dining room or kitchen can replace the dining table.
Depending on the wishes, such a table can be used as a cozy corner for receiving guests over a glass of wine or a cup of coffee, as a working area, a mini-library.
- Decorative table serves as an element of decorating the room.
- Platform table - a product on one high stem, a kind of podium for one object, for example, a beautiful Egyptian statuette or other decorative interior items.
- Transformer able to transform as if by a magic wand due to the presence of moving mechanisms and parts of the connection. The table is a classic version of the coffee, which is easy to turn into a full-fledged dining table when guests descend.It can be a sliding design or a table-book. Other models allow you to create your mini-office, turning into a convenient desktop on which you can put a laptop, tablet, spread out the paper. Countertops of such products are able to rise to a comfortable height, fixing on several levels.
- Pridivany the copy forms an inverted letter “P”, with the base located under the sofa, and the tabletop above it. On the table it is convenient to put a cup of coffee, put the remote from the TV, the morning newspaper.
- Modern tables on wheels. The main feature of the products is mobility. With their help, you can effectively serve snacks and drinks.
Forms
The fantasy of designers sometimes gives the most unexpected fruits, they manage to combine the incompatible and create completely unpredictable designs. Along with the classic rectangular option, today you can buy a round or oval coffee table, square or polygonal product.
But the most intriguing look non-standard-looking model. Designer interior items can have not just fancy geometric shapes and lines, they are able to accept,at first glance, the forms unsuitable for this purpose: turn into a crib or cart on wheels, have a tutu on the ballerina’s legs and legs instead of a tabletop, imitate a garden bench made of rattan or a fishing boat.
What style are they suitable for?
Modern furniture products are concise, functional and suitable for any interior design:
- Classic style room implies the simplest coffee table made of wood. The usual forms of such a product are acceptable: a rectangular or round version. As accents can be a bright decor of the base or the legs of the table, in harmony with the other objects of the room.
The shade of wood should be chosen so that the furniture is a single set.
- Provence Style Furniture - These are delicate pastel shades, as if burned out in the sun, simplicity of lines, comfort and coziness. The interior of Provence is, above all, the love of antiquity. Most often these are models made of natural wood or wicker products with elements of aging: chipped, cracked, peeling paint, scuffed. Designers like to use artificial patina in these cases.
- Country music - This is the clarity of lines, simplicity and convenience. Furniture in this direction does not allow monograms and drawings (except for a small plant pattern or cell). A minimum of decor, textures and functions is what this style “from the past” demands. Multifunctional transforming tables for country are irrelevant.
- Where truly there is no limit to designer imagination, so it in modern style. The coffee tables of the modernist style are laconic forms and smooth lines, practicality and convenience, harmony and originality. This is a combination of fashion trends and functional utility.
For the direction of modern use all sorts of materials, but designers often prefer tech plastic.
- Brutal "street" loft associated with roughly treated metal parts and wood. Products are unusual for the average consumer, but look spectacular in the interior. Many ideas came to the designers after visiting semi-abandoned factories and manufactories, where they drew their inspiration.
A typical loft style coffee table is a piece that resembles a cart or stylized sewing machine.Furniture can even be made by hand from repainted wooden boxes.
- Pop Art. For furniture in the style of the 60s are characterized by glossy surfaces, bright colors, clear geometric shapes and the use of different types of plastic. The main objective of the style of pop art - the alteration of ordinary things into something fantastic. Designer products of this direction are real “works of art”.
The pop art table can be presented in the form of a human hand as a base holding a glass tabletop or without it, or it can be styled with a poster of Marilyn Monroe.
Tips for choosing
When choosing a furniture product, you need to clearly consider what functions you impose on it and what you expect from it in the interior:
- The coffee table should match the style of the room, in harmony with it in color, texture and overall impression. It is not necessary to carry out experiments, adding to the Provencal style a coarse piece of loft.
- Different materials are allowed for the same style, this is considered the norm. When choosing it is necessary to focus on the other items in the room, textiles and wall decorations.The surface of the product should not be repelled, the material should be safe for health and convenient to use.
- The shape and size of the table should allow it to harmoniously fit into the surrounding space so that all family members and guests feel comfortable with it.
- The model must fulfill its functional purpose. It is not necessary to purchase the attached version for the working area of the library. And in a child's baby it would be completely inappropriate to purchase a product on wheels, it is better to choose a stable stationary structure.
Modern trends
The most relevant solutions today are associated with the most popular concepts in the interior fashion:
- Computerization and high technology reached the interior. Without the use of innovative solutions it is already difficult to imagine modern furniture production. A striking example of the latest advances in technology - a coffee table with a tabletop tablet. A unique gadget can be used not only as a home PC, it can be used as a familiar furniture accessory: spread out newspapers and magazines on it, put a cup with a hot drink.
Special thermo and shock-resistant coating protects the touch screen from damage, no spilled coffee is not afraid of it.
- The model of a coffee table with a bio fireplace is no less amazing. The dimensions of the hearth itself are small, but the spectacular spectacle of it exceeds all expectations. The biofireplace consumes very little oxygen and almost does not emit a smoke, the little table can be established quietly indoors with the windows opened for airing.
It is much more romantic to have a dinner accompanied by a fire dance created by a bio fireplace, than the usual candles.
Designer coffee table can be made by hand. How to do this, see the next video.