13 Easy Ways to Decorate a Coffee Table
This post shows you 13 easy ways to decorate a coffee table.
Draw attention away from the television and back to the conversation with stunning coffee table arrangements or simple displays that leave lots of space for drinks, snacks, and other items.
13 Easy Ways to Decorate a Coffee Table
1.Coffee Table Books
There may be no more classic way to decorate a coffee table than with coffee table books. Any topic can be used, art, decoration, photography, and cooking are common coffee table books, and they are designed to be beautiful both inside and out.Select just one or two books, or create a pile of books or two, depending upon the size of the table or the shape you can adjust things to fit.
2.Flower Arrangements
Classic or modern, flowers always change the feel of a room. You can put a large arrangement in the middle of the table and leave the rest empty, surround it with LED candles, or place it in a large vase that will gather all of the focus. This is one sure way to create a focal point in the room that isn’t the television and can draw people towards a conversation area.
3.A Single Plant
Keep the table sleek and understated by adding one single plant to the middle of the table. This brings in some of the outdoors and creates a relaxed feeling with lots of open space around it and above it. A sense of open spaces and newness encourages conversations of growth, fresh starts, and life considerations. For a larger statement for the lovers of the big, bold statement, this can be a plant, or it can be a few small plants that create their own village on the table.
4.Centerpieces to Enjoy
If you love holidays and celebrations this one is for you! Gather your favorite center pieces and use them year round. These can be homemade or purchased at any store, they can reflect seasons, match each holiday, and change frequently throughout the year so you have something new to look at. If you love Christmas villages you can make that your centerpiece for the winter, put out a cauldron full of fall flowers or branches for fall, even create a fruit bowl full of colour and easy to snack on.
5.Display Your Favorite Game
Board games are a great way to spend time with friends! Choose your favorite game and set it up on your coffee table. It will create a focal point and start conversations, as well as encourage friends to play the game with you when they visit. Bring your family together for game night with a preset game that is ready to go and make the space beautiful at the same time.
6.Bundle Decorations
Add depth and contrast by gathering a few items and grouping them to create a bundle of items in the middle of the table, or off to one side to leave a larger space empty. Add different colours or use just one and using the different texture of items will add more details to the room.
7.Off-Center Display
Rather than use the traditional approach of putting a centerpiece or the focal point in the middle of the table, create one that is off to one side. Moving the items to the side will leave a larger space for things such as games, setting drinks, or adding fresh flowers or other items over time. By moving the focus away from the center, it creates a modern feel and changes things from the expected.
8.Images that Speak
When choosing images, through book covers or photographs, choose those that speak to you or have meaning. Meaning can be anything that matters, adding colour or beauty, showing family and key moments of life, or invoking emotion when you view it.
9.Useful Items
Decorate your table with useful items to not only create a flowing, comfortable space, but also one that is easy to exist in and to interact with. Add candles that create scent or absorb odor from the air, coasters to hold drinks, games to play, or other useful items to increase engagement with the room and the people within.
10.Use a Tray
Adding a tray to the table allows for decorations or drinks and snacks to be easily moved. Not only is a try functional, protecting the surface of the table from candles and other items or allowing things to be easily moved, but it also adds dimension, height, texture, and style to the table.
11.Follow a Theme
Choose a theme, a colour theme, a show, band, or movie, any type of theme that works for you. Design the table decorations to fit the theme but also to create a useful space that encourages people to interact with the items on the table and the people in the room, this theme can be matched to the rest of the room. Choosing a theme may seem overwhelming but when you consider your interests and create a list of things you enjoy it will be easier to select what theme you would like to display.
12.Check All Angles
Before completing the coffee table design, look at it from all angles. Sit on the furniture in the room to see how it looks from each seat, look at it from above and sit on the floor next to it. Only by checking all the angles are you able to see what others will see, ensure that the alignment is pleasant to the eye, and that it all works together. People will be able to enjoy the decorations from anywhere they are in the room.
13.Contrasting Colors
Adding contrasting colors will draw the eye and engage the senses. Access patterns, line up items so they create a pattern, add colors that contrast with your surrounding furniture and other items to bring focus to the table.
Recap
Creating a focal point on your coffee table, or using items that will blend with the background, provides a way to control the way in which the eye moves around the room. It can create an engaging environment and encourage people to use the items, to use the table to set down drinks or rest a book they are reading, set down their keys or purse, or play a game with you.
Resources: https://www.realsimple.com/coffee-table-decor-ideas-7503387
https://www.tlcinteriors.com.au/howto-decorate/how-to-style-a-coffee-table/
