Take Back Your Living Room with a Lift Top Coffee Table

A lift top coffee table provides you with plenty of room to work and play. When you need to work, lift the top and voila the table height is ergonomically perfect for comfortable working. Ready to challenge your son to a game of checkers? Lower the top to coffee table height, perfect for young and young at heart to gather around for a great game.

Most of the lift top coffee table designs call for a sturdy wood construction and easy lift hinges that help those who are not as strong, children and older adults, lift the top to its raised locking position. The hinges are concealed within the base when the top is at coffee table height. The adjustable nature of this coffee table makes for a super functional home furnishing. A lift-top coffee table not only provides a comfortable working and dining height surface but also the inside compartment keeps home essentials like remote controls, cards, board games, pens and even peripheral chargers (like digital camera and cell phone chargers, etc.) neatly hidden from view. When in the down position, a lift-top coffee table operates like a traditional surface to enjoy snacks, play board games, read the paper and do your Sudoku puzzle.

These tables are now available in solid cabinet styles that reach all the way to the floor and provide a much greater cavity in which to store items like a cedar chest and in a style with spindle legs. The spindle legs are usually close to 9 inches tall and may include a small caster at the bottom. This reduces the storage space in the cabinet but may match your décor better and be a little bit lighter if you expect to move it around.

If you suffer from back discomfort and even pain, resting your arms on the lift top coffee table in the up setting may take enough pressure off your lower back and encourage proper posture to relieve your pain. While these are not medical devices, the benefits of correcting body alignment can be helpful.

Also in the up position you can rest your laptop on the surface to write emails to your children in college or to your family members far away while your children are watching cartoons or your spouse is watching a World War 2 naval reenactment on the History channel. You can be together doing what you want to do comfortably instead of being hunched over a laptop sitting in your lap. The lift top coffee table also saves your lap from an overheating laptop. In the open position the lift-top coffee table is the perfect workspace to use your laptop, pay bills, eat and write that short story you want to write. Closed, the coffee table functions as a hideaway for living room stuff and as a regular coffee table.