The Black Coffee Table We Bought on a Whim
It was meant to fill a gap for about a fortnight, a stopgap until someone made a proper decision, and instead it has been sitting there for the better part…
The Height Adjustable Coffee Table We Keep Buying for Friends
We have bought this table four times now as a gift and it has revealed something none of us particularly wanted revealed, which is that half of this team eats…
The White Coffee Table We Keep Buying for Friends
We have bought this table four times now as a housewarming gift, which either means we have found the one genuinely safe present in the entire homeware category or means…
Is a Walnut Coffee Table Overrated? We Argued About It
There’s a running joke in the office about the person who cannot walk past a walnut coffee table without touching the surface first, palm flat, like she’s checking a horse’s…
Should You Buy a Small Coffee Table? The Team Is Split
One of us has a small coffee table and thinks it is the single best decision made in that living room in a decade. Another has one too, in a…
The Round Coffee Table Our Guests Always Comment On
Every single person who comes through the door says the same thing about this table within about four minutes of sitting down, which is “oh, I like that it’s round,”…
The Rattan Coffee Table Nobody Talks About Enough
Nearly everyone here will tell you the rattan coffee table is the most underrated thing we own, the one that gets no attention in any conversation about the living room…
The Marble Coffee Table Our Guests Always Comment On
There is a specific evening we keep coming back to, the one where somebody said, out loud, in front of everyone, that the marble looked “a bit municipal”, like we’d…
The Gray Coffee Table That Earned Its Place at Home
Nobody voted for the gray coffee table. It arrived as a compromise nobody remembers agreeing to, a middle ground between someone who wanted glass and someone who wanted “literally anything…
Do You Actually Need an Industrial Coffee Table?
A delivery driver said it best, actually, hauling the thing up two flights and setting it down like he was retiring from something. “That’s not a coffee table,” he said,…