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A coffee table is a must-have piece of furniture for your living room. It will ensure there’s a place to put down cups and glasses so they’re kept off the floor, and allows you to have books, magazines, remotes, and more within easy reach of the seating. When it comes to the dimensions, style, colour, and shape, there’s a design to suit every room. Take a look at our favourites.
Mercers Furniture Corona coffee table
Solid pine
This rectangular table has a rustic appearance to suit many a living room scheme. On legs and with a light antique wax finish, it will help keep a smaller room feeling spacious. It has a drawer so you can tidy away at the end of the day to keep your home looking neat.
Trendteam Smart Living Universal living room coffee table
Easy to clean
If you like the idea of clean, modern lines, but the warmth of a wood-look finish, this coffee table has your name on it. It has plenty of space on top plus a shelf below to boost the storage in your room. It’s finished with a practical melamine resin surface.
Redstone coffee table
Clear the clutter
Running out of space to tidy away all you need to in the living room? This coffee table could be the answer. It has two drawers, plus an inner storage area for all your things. The top slides to access the interior, so you can open it up without needing to clear the surface.
GOLDFAN Triangle solid wood coffee table set
Pleasing curves
You’ll get two coffee tables if you go for this set. They’re made from practical MDF, and have solid beechwood legs that have foot pads to prevent marks on the floor. The minimalist design is ideal if you want a room scheme that feels open and airy.
Bottom line
Why you can trust Real Homes
A coffee table is a practical addition to a living space and can win you points in the style stakes, too. The Mercers Furniture Corona coffee table has enduring rustic style in solid pine with an antique wax finish. As well as space on the top, there’s room to stash away smaller items in its drawer.
Need to maximise storage? The Redstone coffee table is a winner with two drawers plus room inside for tidying away a multitude of items.
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Sarah is a freelance journalist and editor writing for websites, national newspapers, and magazines. She’s spent most of her journalistic career specialising in homes – long enough to see fridges become smart, decorating fashions embrace both minimalism and maximalism, and interiors that blur the indoor/outdoor link become a must-have. She loves testing the latest home appliances, revealing the trends in furnishings and fittings for every room, and investigating the benefits, costs and practicalities of home improvement. It's no big surprise that she likes to put what she writes about into practice, and is a serial house revamper. For Realhomes.com, Sarah reviews coffee machines and vacuum cleaners, taking them through their paces at home to give us an honest, real life review and comparison of every model.