A Breath of Fresh Air with Glass Top End Tables

Are you considering glass top end tables? When considering a piece of furniture for your living room, you need to determine what the predominant use for that piece will be and what will be around the piece. In the case of an end table, the use and the intensity of use should be considered.

A table in the den of a house with four children under the age of 10 will have significantly more wear and tear than the end table in a house with a formal parlor or formal living room used exclusively by two adults over the age of 40. In the household with young children a glass top end tables should only be used in rooms that are for adults only like the parent’s bedroom or the formal living room. Use in the den where the children will spend their time is a recipe for trouble. You may prefer to plan your space for a tranquil gathering of adults or for an energetic room full of children. If you are trying to reach both adults and children, consider how you divide the attention in your home.

If you entertain both adults formally and children very casually, you may wish to create a separate space for each. That way you can choose glass top end tables for each room in the style of that room only. If you have your sight set on a glass top and you entertain both children and adults in one space, then choose an end table that is built to withstand the pressures of the children without being too bulky for the adults. Now that you know how and where you will use the piece you need to figure out what will be around it.

If you expect to use formal sofas, the kind of sofa that sits on four to eight legs with or without a dust cover and that sofa has wood details either because the legs are exposed or there is another element of the piece that incorporates wood, you may prefer a wood base to accompany your glass top end tables. And, if you have much more casual furnishings with plush furnishings, you may like a wood base, but perhaps a wood base that is solid on all four sides with storage space built into the sides.

However, if you have very contemporary furnishings or even ultra-modern furniture, glass top end tables with a wrought iron base or other metal base may be the best complimentary piece. The metal is more likely to coordinate with your other home furnishings. If you have your heart set on wood though, a black wood or ultra-bleached almost completely white wood of a very tight grain will give the sharp contrast these styles are known to champion. You are most likely to find glass top end tables for modern décor in round and rectangular styles.