How To Decorate A Coffee Table

Styling surfaces in your home can be the best part of interior design. After the heavy lifting of furniture placement is completed, the finishing touches elevate a space to where it needs to be. Because the all-important coffee table is a prime surface for expressing your taste, here are a few tips for making it look (and function) at its best:

1. Bring in colors from around the room.

 In Natalie's first episode of this series, she covers choosing colors for a space. Once your colors are chosen, it makes styling individual areas in the room easy!

2. Don't clutter the coffee table. 

Keep it simple! Negative space is important in a design, especially when adorning a piece of furniture that is expected to fulfill multiple purposes. If you eat on your coffee table, for example, you don't want to have to move a bunch of items to another surface every time.

3. Use low-profile objects. Books, low-profile bowls, trays

Much like rule number 2, good design incorporates function, and in most living room set-ups, the coffee table is either a centerpiece to a conversational area, or sits between a couch and a television. Table ornaments that are too high disrupt the function of both of these arrangements, as no one wants to look around a tall candlestick to converse with the person across from them.

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