Coffee tables in a classic interior style

A coffee table is a popular item in the interior of any home or apartment. It can be found in almost every room and perform both basic and decorative functions. Many decorate the rooms of the house in a classic style. For this direction, special models of coffee tables are suitable. Before making a choice, you need to consider a number of nuances that will help you choose this piece of furniture correctly.

A coffee or coffee table has the following universal characteristics and features:

• Most of them are small, which explains compactness and elegance of designs... Rarely, their height exceeds 0.5 meters. If the product has a large height, then, as a rule, the area of ​​its countertop is significantly less than that of miniature counterparts.
• Many coffee tables made using transformation technology... They can be transformed into massive dining tables or even have folding technology and transported to different parts of the room.

• Some products play an exclusively decorative role... They can be creatively designed, but the surface is not always flat enough to hold some fragile items or position containers of liquids.
• Miniature table has a wide range of functions... It can store a lot of everyday items - newspapers, books, magazines, technology or decorative attributes - sculptures, vases of flowers. Indoors, the coffee table can play both an accent role and simply complement the decor of the room, giving it additional comfort. It is important to remember about the compatibility of products with the main concept of the interior.
• Using a coffee table you can create a recreation area... Located near a fireplace or an armchair with a floor lamp, it will add warmth and comfort to the atmosphere.

To choose a table in a classic style for the interior, you need to remember that it must have such an appearance that will correspond to the concept:

• Classics implies strict forms, solid and unshakable designs. On three or four legs, there is a round, oval or square tabletop, the surface of which does not allow the presence of relief. In such an interior, you cannot see a mobile structure on wheels, because it would violate the conservative concept.
• The legs of the coffee table are often smoothly curved. In some designs, the presence of a lower tier is allowed, but it is usually made sophisticated and graceful.

• The maximum permissible decor is carving, because the table in the classical concept does not allow an abundance of various shapes and too much piling of decorative elements. Symmetry plays an important role in the concept, therefore, among the tables, there are no products with uneven edges or with a curved tabletop plane.
• Italy is the most popular country for the production of classic furniture, so you can find the greatest variety of models among the products of Italian firms.

For the concept of the classic direction, special types of raw materials are used.

The main condition for their choice for the manufacture of furniture is the natural origin:

• The main material for furniture in a classic interior is solid wood... Popular species include oak, beech, maple, and alder.Many products are covered with a layer of varnish, which provides additional protection against mechanical damage. Such furniture has a long service life; it does not soon lose its external elegance and strength.
• Additional material in the classic concept can be glass... Worktops are made of transparent or frosted glass, framed by a wooden outline.
• The structure of the structure, along with glass, may include metal... Often, metal elements that give the product additional strength can be found in the legs of the table or on the sides. They also create graceful carvings and patterns, as well as on wooden surfaces.

A restrained range of shades is characteristic of furniture in a classic interior.

In most cases, the coffee table is designed in restrained colors:

• The favorite is the natural wood color - light brown or nutty... Chocolate and coffee shades are popular, mahogany color is less common, but it looks very solid. The color of wenge wood, which looks very noble, is gaining more and more popularity among brown and dark tones.
• You can find tables mustard or honey color... They are selected for a specific color ensemble of the room, sometimes such colors play an accent role in the main color.
• In the classics, you can find as boiling white the shade of the coffee table, and less catchy, sophisticated tones. The color of ivory, milky, cream, beige is relevant.

The classic style does not imply monotony. It has various directions, in each of which it is embodied from a special side:

• The most catchy and fanciful "representative" of the classics is baroque... Low coffee tables in it are mostly rectangular in shape. They are light wood constructions with carved legs. Since every piece of furniture in the direction of the Baroque must look pompous and expensive, tables are often decorated with gold or bronze trim. On the countertop you can see a small pattern repeating the ornate lines of the legs.
• Art Deco Is a more modernized classic with a restrained concept. Rectangular designs in light or dark wood are less cluttered with luxury attributes. You can often see the unusual shapes of the legs of such a table.
• Replaced by strict rectangular lines in neoclassicism comes the oval design. You can also find rectangular designs with softer corner lines. In the neoclassical direction, there is often an element of stucco molding on the products, which is a characteristic feature of the concept.

How to make a coffee table with your own hands that will perfectly fit into the "classic" interior, see below.