Have family coming into town soon and want to make an impact without having to do a total redesign? Try focusing on one space at a time - or even just one piece of furniture - like your coffee table! This space can really show off your style and define your whole living space. John Elliott Interiors is the best interior design company at the Lake of the Ozarks, and we are here to help inspire you with tips and advice to make an impact this season! 

Coffee tables... They may be one of the hardest surfaces to design, and design well. You don't want the space to be completely blank, but you also don't want it to be too cluttered. Both of those options can overwhelm the space in a bad way. John Elliott Interiors is the best interior design company at the Lake of the Ozarks, and we are here to help inspire you with tips and advice on how to design your coffee table space to complement your home interior. Keep reading to learn more! 

If you're not careful, it's easy to use a coffee table as a catch-all for everything that comes into a room. That's a shame for a couple of reasons. Firstly, all of that clutter hides the gorgeous coffee table that you found at our Lake of the Ozarks luxury furniture store!

Also, all of that stuff is displeasing to the eye and ruins the overall look and feel of your interior design. You'll find lots of beautiful home decor items at John Elliott Interiors that will look much better on top of your coffee table. When you take the time to stage a small "scene" there with decorative accessories, this can help to discourage people from leaving random items laying on top of it.


Accessories for a coffee table can be purely decorative, possibly showing off a part of a collection or providing an interesting conversation piece. You can also find lovely accessories that serve some type of function in the room as well. Here are a few ideas of items you may want to incorporate.

Trays or Bowls
A wonderful way to contain a portion of your coffee table display is to use trays or bowls to hold the accessories. They can help to give your room a less cluttered look because items are collected within it. This also allows items to quickly and easily be removed from the table if you need more open space, and the tray can come in handy if you are serving refreshments to guests.

Candles

A coffee table often becomes a piece of furniture that quickly gathers the clutter of everyone living in the home. Not only is this displeasing to the eye, it also hides that gorgeous table you found at our Lake of the Ozarks home interiors store. 


If you take the time to stage a small scene with decorative accessories on the top of your coffee table, this could help to discourage people from leaving random items laying around, and it will give your home a more pleasant and inviting overall look. John Elliott Interiors has a few ideas for the accessories you may want to use. They can be purely decorative, possibly showing off a part of a collection or providing an interesting conversation piece, they can be functional items that come in handy in the room, or even better, a mixture of both. 

Stacks of Books
Using accessories of different heights can help to guide a person's eye and add interest to the overall decor on your coffee table. Stacks of books used as bases to hold other display items lets you do this, plus it keeps interesting reading material close at hand. It's also easy to switch out the books with others from your collection whenever you feel like it without changing the overall display too much.  

Trays
A wonderful way to contain a portion of your coffee table display is to use trays to hold the accessories. They can help to give your room a less cluttered look. This also allows items to quickly and easily be removed from the table if you need more open space, and the tray can come in handy if you are serving refreshments to guests.  


Pops of Color
Coffee table displays are the perfect place to add interesting pops of color that can be switched out easily whenever your mood or the season changes. It's best to stick to a unified color palette so that all of the items used appear as if they were meant to be displayed together. For smaller rooms, white accessories offer a clean, bright palette that can help to open up the room, plus they will always work well with any pops of color you choose to add.  

Natural Elements   
In addition to color, texture is an excellent tool to use to bring interest to your interior design. Natural elements are perfect for this. Accessories made of wood, glass jars holding collections of stones or seashells, or even a tabletop fountain will work well for this. Potted plants and freshly cut floral arrangements fall into this category too.    

Candles
Another excellent way to incorporate accessories of different heights is to add a cluster of candles of various sizes. They allow you to add color, and when lit, give an inviting and warm glow to the room. Using scented candles also gives you the chance to affect the overall ambiance. 


Ultimately, you want to create a look on your coffee table that stands alone as a beautiful area in the room, yet still works cohesively with the overall interior design. The first step is to pick out the perfect coffee table from our vast collection at John Elliott Interiors. Once that's done, our talented interior designers at the Lake of the Ozarks can help you find the gorgeous accessories that will decorate that table to reflect your personal style.