17 COFFEE TABLES IDEAS

When furnishing your living room, there are 3 important and above all essential choices: the sofa, the television and the furniture that accompanies it and to finish the coffee table.

The choice of the coffee table is made through 3 axes: your habits, your tastes and the layout of the room . They come in all shapes, sizes and heights. You can have only one coffee table or on the contrary create nesting coffee tables. You can also reuse an old tray, an old mottled door, a pallet, or make your own tray. So many possibilities, so let's find out which leg to create your future coffee table with!

There are standard dimensions to create your coffee table, we guide you through this article. Here discover inspirations and ideas with different shapes of tops, legs and materials.

COFFEE TABLE WITH BEAMS

Our feet infinite flat iron, where the principle allows you to add a crosspiece to the foot, gives the possibility of simply creating this very stylish and very solid coffee table . The knots of the wood stand out with the golden color chosen for the legs of Agnes. The crosspiece is invisible once the beams are positioned. You also choose the position of the foot, here it was decided to put the feet about twenty centimeters from the edge..

Photo credit: @leloftdagnes

DRUM COFFEE TABLES

With the idea of nesting tables, La Fabrique came up with 2 drum feet designed to go together with a diameter and a different height.Lisa played with these legs and created 2 coffee tables trundles with different trays. There is a natural harmony between them with the similar design of the foot. Each has its own personality and charm with the details of their tops.

Photo credit: @lisaconfidence

THE PALETTE COFFEE TABLE ON WHEELS

You don't have to look far when designing a coffee table. This is what Stéphane did by recycling an old useless palette. He filled the holes with planks, painted it and added 4 castor feet 20cm . This gives rise to a large coffee table, practical and movable as desired. The pallet being varnished, it can therefore be used as a garden table to enjoy the sun.

The chosen paint will define the style of your coffee table. Going from gray to white, you end up with a seaside-style coffee table that finds its place in the middle of your living room.

MISPAIRED COFFEE TABLES

When imagining a room, it is not necessary to play with the same colors and the same shapes. That's what inspired these mismatched coffee tables: their differences. We play on the height, the shape of the foot with a triple foot and hairpin legs and the color of the legs with black and copper. But we keep the same shape of the top and the same stretched circle for the feet. This creates harmony for these different small tables.

THE COFFEE TABLE WITH RESIN

The choice of top is as important as that of the foot. Increasingly, wood is adorned with resin in certain creations. This very complicated technique and also really very beautiful on a finished board. 2 thin black rectangular legs very sober and in an industrial style support the top to give a coffee table with a lot of character.

COFFEE TABLE WITH REEL

Wooden reels are very popular for creating furniture of all kinds: coffee table, dining table, mini bookcase etc. Here we only keep the upper top to dress it with 4 reinforced hairpin legs of 40cm. We chose to paint it to include it in the existing decoration. Depending on its size, 3 feet may be sufficient. A new coffee table in 2 turns of the arm.

CAISSON COFFEE TABLE

Each coffee table meets a need. This had to have an integrated box to slide a remote control or magazine in and be closed if necessary for a minimalist atmosphere. Its style white&wood could make you think of a coffee table bought in decoration stores and yet it is a 100% home-made table and you can find the DIY here.

NESTING COFFEE TABLES

Nesting coffee tables dress up the space and give it depth. They are very practical when you receive friends and family. Here 3 hairpin legs have been chosen to dress 2 round tops of different diameters and create these pretty coffee tables of different heights.

In the category of nesting coffee tables we find the so-called sliding coffee tables. Here, these coffee tables are made with 40 cm drum foot with an opening on the side and a 30 cm drum leg.The opening on the leg allows the second coffee table to slide underneath without any concern.

Photo credit: @mounedeco_

RECOVERED COFFEE TABLES

Want a coffee table with character but how to do it simply? With an old door according to your desire in the size of the coffee table: wardrobe door, cupboard door, room door or mottled door. Here you are with a tray of relief character to which a second life is offered. We choose the height of the leg according to the spirit that we want to give to this coffee table and then the legs that appeal the most. Here 4 hairpin legs 40 cm copper.

Another example is also valid for the idea of a DIY for a coffee table from the recovery. @chrisfamilydeco used an old desk and added two 40 cm A-legs in black. A fairly simple way to update an old school desk and create a unique coffee table.

Photo credit: @chrisfamilydeco

THE LOG COFFEE TABLE

A log is a piece of wood cut from a trunk and therefore has the shape of a tree. This one is very thick and wide enough, perfect for imagining a coffee table. In view of its atypical shape and its irregularities, it is preferable to put4 feet 30 cm to balance the weight and ensure that the set does not not toggle when the table will be used. It is a coffee table full of character and charm to dress up a living room.

THE INDUSTRIAL COFFEE TABLE

Do you like the loft atmosphere with bricks, touches of black and steel in general? So turn to this kind of coffee table with thicker legs and with wider profiles like here, the cross foot. This leg is perfect for a long, rectangular coffee table. This choice is best for large rooms or large coffee tables because the legs are quite large.

THE COFFEE TABLE ON CASTORS

Julie entirely imagined her garden furniture by creating the benches herself using planks and wheels. She combined it with a 100% homemade coffee table, made with cement tiles, a plywood top and feet with castors in an antique rust color 30cm. This brand new garden coffee table gives the impression of having already lived. Thanks to its wheels, it is very easy to move it.

SLIM RECTANGLE COFFEE TABLES

The tray of thiscoffee table is a work plan cut out in a large DIY store on which we came to assemble 2 fine custom-made rectangular legs so that the width of the leg matches the width of the top. The legs are positioned at the edge of the top to visually give this table a sense of grandeur and accentuate its rectangular shape.

Our thin rectangles are often used for making a coffee table to harmonize all the decoration of the living room with it. The top of this table, made of wood, fits perfectly into the general atmosphere of the living room. The aged wood tones and the white of the feet simply combine with the color of the carpet, the sofa and the white walls. A great inspiration if you like the bohemian trend. >

Photo credit: @__apres.la.pluie__

THE ROUND COFFEE TABLE

You don't have a lot of space in your living room and rather want an aerial foot that takes little floor space? The 40 cm triple leg is made for you and this round coffee table project. With the choice of white colors, it has a very Scandinavian look. It's up to you to choose the diameter of the tray according to the space available.

THE QUINCONCE COFFEE TABLE

Another great DIY coffee table idea that's easy to reproduce. The unstructured top with the layout of the staggered planks gives it a more stylized appearance. By playing on the thickness of the boards used, it will have more character because the whole will be less linear. You can choose to treat the boards with transparent varnish to keep the natural color of the wood or choose a darker varnish to darken your top. 2 feet thin flat iron made to measure dresses it.

THE SQUARE COFFEE TABLE

Are you a fan of large coffee tables and want one that is square? It's your choice and anything is possible! Here, 4 hairpin legs 40 cm have been chosen. Don't be fooled by the visual lightness of the leg, the 10mm stretched round used to make this leg makes it very strong and sturdy for creating such a large coffee table. The choice of these feet counterbalances the space taken up by the top and gives it a certain lightness.

VERY LOW COFFEE TABLE

This coffee table is also made with a custom slim rectangle leg. What differs from other inspirations is its size. This coffee table is a very low table. Indeed, the thin rectangle legs are 20 cm high. This allows you to see the real dimensions of this newly created piece of furniture. And gives it a lot of charm, but what gives it even more is the marriage between the assembled wooden planks that form the top and the matte black steel. These colors are accentuated by the choice of carpet and decor. From what you inspire, until the end of the inspiration!

Photo credit: @home_6.0

No coffee table model is standard, that's the advantage when you can create your own furniture : the foot adapts to your desire to allow you to create the coffee table of your dreams. With this choice of feet, shape, size, color and atmosphere, you will find what you are looking for! Thus, create your perfect coffee table, the one that matches your desires, your living room and your interior decoration. To get started, take a look at our legs for coffee tables.

Building a coffee table yourself is satisfying for several reasons:

• 1. Economical

Who says "change furniture" does not mean "discard the old and the existing". Do you like the board? Keep it for this same project or for another one! It's upcycling and a new life for part of this piece of furniture that has been used so much.

Prefer to start from scratch? It remains interesting financially because you choose each element of this new project and for this search for a set, many possibilities:

• Find it at a flea market or consignment store
• Buying a board at a large DIY store or sawmill
• Creation by your care with combinations of boards selected by yourself
• Subversion of an object such as a palette

• 2. Personalization

When you start a DIY, there are no constraints on size, color or choice of materials because everything is possible. You are free to define the composition of the top, its shape, the choice of legs and their position. And as long as you create a piece of furniture, you might as well do it custom-made. More and more solutions exist to find tailor-made elements at no extra cost compared to standard furniture.

• 3. A sentimental attachment

After thinking, imagining, sketching, here it is finished before your eyes. What pride! It was designed by you, made by your hands and corresponds 100% to your tastes. No concessions on this project. It's not just another piece of furniture in your decoration, but a coffee table with a story.