GLASS COFFEE TABLE: INTRODUCTION
Everyone is finally asleep. It’s late, we want to see the last two episodes of our favorite series and what better time to do it now that peace reigns at home? The popcorn is ready, a cold drink will accompany us in these fateful hours, but where is the remote control? It is not on the sofa, it is not next to the TV, it is not in the kitchen, perhaps it will be on the glass coffee table.
How many of you are familiar with this scene?
WHY CHOOSE A GLASS COFFEE TABLE?
In the living room there is a precise point where all the objects from the house end up, even the most unthinkable: it is the coffee table. How many times do we carelessly leave you the house keys, the smartphone, a novel we were reading, and then we never find anything? We tend to accumulate things upon things, burying what was previously there, also risking to ruin the support surface with all those accumulated objects.
But how can you avoid it? Sometimes we forget the usefulness, even of furniture, that a similar accessory has, especially the glass one, so versatile but at the same time delicate. We should stop resting there, and abandon all sorts of objects to their destiny, and furnish it in the right way.
GLASS OR CRYSTAL?
A glass coffee table is a unique piece of furniture because it can become the true protagonist of the room in which it is located, especially in a living room. First of all we must make a difference, we must not get confused between:
- glass coffee table
- a tempered glass coffee table
- crystal coffee table
The crystal coffee table is more precious, more fragile and completely transparent. It will certainly be more elegant and refined, and it will be perfect in an important living room.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COFFEE TABLE
If, on the other hand, we are looking for something stronger, we must move towards a glass coffee table. There is also a further distinction to be made, because in addition to normal glass, there is also tempered glass. The latter is thicker than the first and has rounded and rounded corners, and has undulations due to the type of processing it undergoes.
THE GLASS COFFEE TABLE IS ECLECTIC
Dwelling on glass in general, a coffee table of this type is a multifaceted product, suitable for any style, from classic to industrial furniture. The reason? Its nature. It can be combined with any type of material, it will never be intrusive or banal, but will sublimate the entire room.
GLASS ILLUMINATES EVERY CORNER
A coffee table with a glass shelf will make every room bright thanks to the play of light with natural light sources and artificial light. Spectra of light will give life to specular rainbows reflected on the top of our magical table if, obviously, kept in order.
MAKES THE ROOM BIGGER
In addition to the play of light, a glass coffee table has the power to make even the smallest of living rooms larger and more spacious. How is it possible? Its transparency does not weigh down and goes well with the rest of the furniture. It seems almost invisible in the midst of all that furniture and the sofa, but it will be impossible not to notice it if we know how to enhance it.
ENHANCES THE ENTIRE LIVING FURNITURE
A glass coffee table is like an icing on the cake, it does not change the connotations of the dessert, but makes everything extremely sublime. It does not distort the surrounding furnishings, but enhances it, does not overshadow the surrounding objects, such as carpets, but completes them. It is not bulky, it never tires, and it never goes out of style. It can be reinvented every time with a few changes, or it can be that accessory introduced at the last moment that will revolutionize the style of ours.
DELICATE BUT RESISTANT
Doesn’t the idea of a glass object in the center of a busy room like the living room convince you completely? Don’t worry, it is true that it is a delicate object, but we have seen that the less daring can opt for one with tempered glass, more resistant. If there are small children in the house, prefer oval-shaped tables without edges.
Another good news also concerns cleaning. A glass coffee table is easy to clean, and there is no risk of being damaged in contact with hot liquids, as it could happen, for example with a wooden one.
FITS EVERYTHING!
And we are not just talking about the style of the living room, but about the materials used for its realization. From wood, to metal, from plastic to polycarbonate. The glass coffee tables allow the union of different textures to create wonderful play of textures, giving expressiveness and a new shine to the living room.
An idea for something unusual?
Absolutely to try a coffee table with marble base and glass top. The brilliance of glass and the austere elegance of marble blend perfectly in a combination of class that is difficult to find in other combinations.
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