Show us your coffee table……..the cushions gave us a bit of fun!

Yes - I have two, back to back. When we bought this house, it was a new build but in a cottage style so we went for Old Charm.
My Dad liked it and asked me to get the same for him. I warned him about the price and he just said ‘it’s ok, you’ll get it when I’ve gone’ which I did - hence both in my lounge.

This is my wonderful coffee table. It was a gift from an Afghan family who I became (and still am) close to when I lived in Kabul. I spent a lot of time with the ladies of the family who were all carpet weavers using natural dyes and traditional hand weaving methods. The table is actually an antique door from a traditional Afghan house. When I was leaving Afghanistan the family invited me and my friends to dinner and presented me with this beautiful table. The 'ladies' had all woven a small piece of carpet to fit into some of the square recesses on the top of the table so I wouldn't forget them. As if!
My coffee table has since travelled about a bit having graced my homes in India, Syria, Myanmar, and Mauritania. It now sits in my tiny living room in Scotland. I love it.

Mine - M & S bought on a whim

I don’t have a coffee table …why should I ?

BlueBelle

I don’t have a coffee table …why should I ?

Excuse me? Where do you put all the books,papers, mugs, pens, post, seed packets, reading glasses, diary, the stuff you're dosing the dogs ears with , your phone, the other phone, and the stuff you took out of your pockets while trying to find your keys?

Chapeau

This is my wonderful coffee table. It was a gift from an Afghan family who I became (and still am) close to when I lived in Kabul. I spent a lot of time with the ladies of the family who were all carpet weavers using natural dyes and traditional hand weaving methods. The table is actually an antique door from a traditional Afghan house. When I was leaving Afghanistan the family invited me and my friends to dinner and presented me with this beautiful table. The 'ladies' had all woven a small piece of carpet to fit into some of the square recesses on the top of the table so I wouldn't forget them. As if!
My coffee table has since travelled about a bit having graced my homes in India, Syria, Myanmar, and Mauritania. It now sits in my tiny living room in Scotland. I love it.

Absolutely beautiful and priceless.

A true treasure.

Books in the bookcase or bedside table , don’t take any papers rarely get any post reading glasses sit on arm of sofa or dining room table and bedside table ( numerous £1.99 pairs dotted around… on my head too) Don’t have a dog or cat, phone in my pocket
No don’t need a coffee table ta

Chapeau what a treasure.

Is yours from Laura Ashley some time ago, Ladyleftfieldlover? If so, it’s the same as mine.

Mine is an old chest that came from my mother's family. It's on casters and is mahogany with brass corners. It's really one of the best pieces of furniture in the house. I store table cloths and photo albums in it.

I don't have a coffee table but have a nest of tables that come out as required to hold cups of coffee or glasses of wine.
I also have brass table like Witzend and a lovely ornate folding table.

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We bought this when eldest was a baby; it had rounded corners and we could clean the glass top. So it’s 37 years old now!

Reference books on the lower shelf; gardening, local plants and birds mostly. The plant is a fiscus bonsai.

Mine must be about fifty years old, everything around it has been changed over the years but the table remains! It's tidy for a change.

Oops the photo has downloaded.

Meant to say hasn't downloaded as the photo took ages to appear!

Had this table since the 80s, very useful.

Marg75

Mine must be about fifty years old, everything around it has been changed over the years but the table remains! It's tidy for a change.

I love your coffee table, Marg.

Mine is an Ercol light oak table from the 1950s that has been restored. Mats made by me. Remote control and paper live here.

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NotSpaghetti

I don't have a coffee table but have a nest of tables that come out as required to hold cups of coffee or glasses of wine.
I also have brass table like Witzend and a lovely ornate folding table.

Here's the folding one.

Doodledog Thank you. It's very heavy as the top has tiles on it. Can't remember where we bought it but can't imagine life without it!

I don’t have one but always wanted one. Our lounge has never seemed big enough, my DH always worried about our children, and now GC banging their heads on them.
Youngest and last DGC is seven so maybe not long to go now.

They all look fabulous but mine is too cluttered with wool, books, knitting needles etc at the moment. You’ve inspired me to have a tidy up!

vegansrock

Mine is an Ercol light oak table from the 1950s that has been restored. Mats made by me. Remote control and paper live here.

We have the oval version, it’s been in our family since it was new, 50s/60s.

PS. I think the tops are Elm and the legs Beech.

This is mine . It was the st piece of furniture we bought 45 years ago African slate . Has bumped a lot of toddlers heads over the years !