Decorating With Tables in Your Living Room

A Guide for Decorating With Tables

Your home is exactly that, YOUR HOME so the last thing you want is for your home to look generic or look like a showroom where everything matches. Decorating with tables can be the easiest mistake in house decorating and the easiest to fix. That being said, matching endtables and coffee tables should be avoided.There is nothing creative or personal about matching end tables and coffee tables.

When decorating your living room each seat should have access to a table for food, drinks, books, and favorite home accessories. These are your end tables or coffee tables. Tables are not only functional they connect pieces and unify the room.

Although functional, tables need to be chosen with more of an accessory mindset. Tables can unify the room through color, texture, and material. Decorating with tables is the first step in personalizing your living room.

A chest functions as a side table and storage

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This small chest provides a great decorating option for an end table. The red adds warmth and color to the room. The gold metal detail is carried out throughout the living room and the addition of storage is a plus in any home.

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The scalloped coffee table found in the same room as the small chest reintroduces the use of gold metal nail heads, warm red and gold tones, and its weight balances the large couch and sofa that it centers. The repetition in color, material--the gold metal and wood provides balance to your living room.

Two nesting tables provide more weight than one table

Take a vase or pot and throw on some glass

These two end tables are on opposite sides of the room, but compliment each other both in color and material. The consistancy of repeating color, material, and pattern in decorating your living room will add flow and balance to your decorating.

Hand painted leather wrapped coffee table

Decorating with tables is fun. Look at this great piece- leather wrapped, hand painted and huge storage it actually opens up. This table offers color, pattern, and texture.

Three stacked suitcases

Your living room will continue to shine with personality when you realize everything can be used for something. Super garage sale finds create a super end table contributing to the repeat of color, pattern, texture, and material.

Tables-the functional accessory in your home

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