Coffee Tables
We offer a wide selection of good quality, fully assembled, coffee tables. Most are made from solid timber throughout so, for example, we offer
solid oak coffee tables,
solid pine coffee tables and solid wood coffee tables made from tropical hardwoods. Styles range from modern to traditional, white and French-style to distressed and rustic.
All our coffee tables are from
suppliers that are well-known and respected in the UK furniture industry.
Rustic & Reclaimed Coffee Tables
Coffee Tables: the essential finishing touch for the modern lounge
The coffee table is the essential finishing touch for the modern lounge or living room. This multi-function item is used as a store for papers, books and magazines. It is often the place for plates, cutlery and food (especially in front of a television) and there can be few that do not at some time or other double as a convenient footstool in front of a favourite chair or sofa.
Coffee drinking in UK 250 years before the coffee table
Although coffee started to become popular in Britain in the mid-17th Century due to the efforts of the Honourable East India Company, coffee tables did not appear in this country until some 250 years later. It is difficult to imagine how the very formal Victorians took to using such a low table, with the casual style of sitting and drinking that the coffee table invites. Coffee had been drunk in coffee houses so perhaps it was the explosion of trade during the Victorian period that enabled coffee drinking to take place in private houses and hence led to the coffee table - any further explanations are welcome!
It is reasonable to suppose that if it was the more affluent Victorians who had coffee tables, they would have been made, at the very least, of oak and probably of more exotic imported hardwoods such as mahogany. Pine during this period was primarily used for making furniture for kitchens and servants quarters, or for the homes of the less well off.
Today coffee tables are available in a wide choice of timbers and styles. At Right Price Furniture our selection includes styles to suit a variety of interior decors - including Victorian - ranging from the traditional to the most modern. Our solid oak tables represent some of the finest quality pieces available on the internet. Solidly constructed and expertly finished to the highest standards. It might even be said that the only way to acquire coffee tables of better quality would be to commission them from one of the exclusive selection of cabinet makers still to be found around the UK.