Coffee tables or smaller tables

For me, it depends on the size of the room. My last two living rooms could take a fair sized coffee table. My present one has to hold my parents' thirties dining room table + chairs, my own large set of storage drawers for art that isn't on the walls, two comfy chairs, one of them acting as a toss it there shelf. Then there's my parents' credenza snugly under the windows. Oh, and an old radio cabinet that holds photo albums, as does the credenza. The room is not as big as that sounds.

Watch yourself walking through all this, it's easy enough to trip. I like most of this stuff, for varying reasons, usually sentiment. It's rather comforting.

I do not like nested tables. My favourite style is G-Plan mid-century teak. This was my parents coffee table from about 1958, it's mine now:



Also Danish Modern from the same era



I guess it's a very personal thing. I don't like glass tops.

I don't like glass tops, either. Most coffee tables are so low you have to lean way forward to pick something up from them. I don't like most coffee tables.