54"L x 20" W x 16" H

"ottomen" --plural of "ottoman" Love it....lol.....

45x28" But the size you get would depend on the space you have for it, size of sofa etc.

Well, we DO have a coffee table. The people who sold us our house left it there. But it's not to our taste. It a big boring rectangle with no character. Its shoved in a corner and holds a stereo, our roku box, dvd player, etc. I am not sure how big it is but it looks a tiny bit larger than other coffee tables i have seen.

I like the idea of having a coffee table for the function you mentioned,but I know it will end up covered in Summit Racing and Harbor Freight catalogs,random hand tools, and old mail that has to be saved for some reason.

I like oval or round coffee tables that are elaborately decorated with heavy stone tops, probably tacky by most people's standards. Swirly,twirly and tacky, that's my furniture taste.....

Mine is pretty large - a square that is 40" on each side. But then it serves as a desk, laptop stand, dinner table. occasional footstool and a place for decorative accessories. And always a vase of fresh cut flowers :-)

It is actually a piece of Smith and Hawkins patio furniture, synthetic rattan and with a glass topper. Also sturdy as hell........has lived with me in 4 different residences over the years and withstood a similar number of moves as well as assorted pets.

I have two chests that I use as coffee tables. One is rattan from the early 1960s the other one is from at least the early 1930s. You can basically use anything as a coffee table as long as it fits your needs and is a height that you like. A friend has an old steamer trunk that she uses that is about 24 inches high. I prefer something shorter.

I don't have one

Mine is 30x49. It has an open shelf on the bottom that has a reproduction 'antique' tray. The top has a clever hidden hinge assembly, and can be raised to eating (?) height. DH loved the feature. We've never used it. 6 years.

No coffee table for me... don't have one, don't want one...

I just use stools, as movable side tables... for a drink, or a bowl of chips etc.

Moni

"it will end up covered in Summit Racing and Harbor Freight catalogs,random hand tools, and old mail that has to be saved for some reason. "

huh. other than the racing part that sounds like what my coffee table might look like - if I had one now. but the passenger side of my bed often looks something like that. along with my purse and phone. my dog can't even sleep there. she usually sleeps on the lower end of that side.

Whatever style of coffee table you choose, consider rounded corners for the top. Coffee tables with sharp corners create barked shins, injured children, and a new repertoire of curse words.

Never had a coffee table, it would just be covered in clutter!

Haven't had one for years. Don't miss it at all.

17 1/2" high, 44" long, 17" wide with leaves down or 33" wide with the leaves extended (which we do when using the coffee table to eat on). My late FIL had two such coffee tables made by his friend. Ours was cherry, to match pieces also made by this friend. FIL's was wormy chestnut. We inherited the wormy chestnut when he died, so we gave the cherry one to our daughter.

I love my coffee table! 30" x 50" They have so many to choose from!

It's a slab of glass sitting on simple wrought iron, with a lower level of glass.

We have a pair of low wood tables, each about 2' X 2' in front of a 72" long 2-cushion sofa/loveseat in the 'library' -- where we have 'Teatime Matinee' via Amazon Prime or On Demand TV.

I use a cedar chest for my coffee table. I store my granddaughters toys in it. Before that I didn't use a coffee table.

I no longer have a coffee table but when I did, they were not large.

Sue

I just have a small spool table its all I need.

I did away with coffee tables long ago. I much prefer the clean open space. I have little side tables that can be moved where needed and stay out of the way. Open space is essential for my power chair to move around.

What a beautiful picture. It says 'home'.

I actually use a end table as a coffee table. I have a sectional so it limits the size table I can use.

I found a coffee table 'project' (it came with a side table too). I am going to chalk paint the china cabinet I got last week and will also chalk paint the coffee table which is very large, big enough so that anyone sitting in my tiny living room can use it. Chalk painting has come a long way since I chalked a previous china cabinet a couple years back. Now there are all sorts of techniques and transfers and whatnot, it sounds like fun.

There also has been an explosion of cottage industries fixing, painting, staining and refurbishing older furniture and I think that is a good thing. Apparently some of these these 'creations' are selling well and for a pretty penny, so the small, mostly one or two women businesses are enjoying the fruits of their labors and keeping these pieces in circulation and out of the dump.

There has also been a rise in collaborative advice which I find encouraging, where 'new' painters whose first attempts are sometimes not so good, request and are given answers and techniques and links from those more experienced.

Mine is actually a shoe table! It's from Ikea but they don't make it anymore. My livingroom is rather small (my house is only 1000 sq feet) and my furniture is really bulky. When we got it I had an antique kitchen table (traded the legs for shorter ones) that we used for a coffee table. It was too wide. So we looked at coffee tables, but if everyone has the feet up on the loveseats (they all recline) there would be no floor space at all. So we opted for a shoe table! It's similar to this one (can't find mine online as they don't make it anymore)