I would have never considered purchasing a coffee table for my living room.
I thought they were old-fashioned and were there for people who didn’t want to sit at the dining room table with everyone else.
I pictured coffee tables being used in the fifties or sixties when TV dinners were introduced. Coffee tables and folding trays were a necessity for people to eat and watch television at the same time. When I received a coffee table as a wedding gift, I almost laughed. I couldn’t understand why anyone would give me a coffee table, even if it was an antique. When I showed the coffee table to my mom, she thought it was beautiful. I would have given it to my mother if my husband’s grandmother hadn’t given it to us. Every time grandma came to visit, we would bring the coffee table out of the side room and put it in front of the sofa. To be honest, after a while, I got tired of pulling the coffee table out and putting it back, so we just left it in the living room. My husband and I soon began using it. It had a candle in the middle on top of a lace table runner his grandmother had hand crocheted. I had to admit that the coffee table became a central piece of furniture in our living room, and I no longer thought of it as an old-fashioned piece of furniture. Over time, I couldn’t figure out why I hadn’t wanted the coffee table in the beginning. It took up the space in the middle of our room.