What about a Saarinen (or knockoff!) and you can pick the top and bottom colors/materials. Black base and white top? All white? Too matchy-matchy modern with the egg chairs? I'm trying to get you off glass. Misotiny will be well-behaved, but #2 will be a firecracker! Boys always are!
What about a Saarinen (or knockoff!) and you can pick the top and bottom colors/materials. Black base and white top? All white? Too matchy-matchy modern with the egg chairs? I'm trying to get you off glass. Misotiny will be well-behaved, but #2 will be a firecracker! Boys always are!
You kill me, snips. LOL.
I do love the look.
Haha, I speak the truth! Don't get that shot!!! That's why I've got to have a friggen tree trunk for my coffee table - I have a BOY! LOLLOLOL
We have this Adrian Pearsall glass-topped coffee table:
And yes, fingerprints are an issue, but not a big deal. The table gets cleaned several times weekly. But it doesn't get scratched up like wood would! If you go glass, just choose something without sharp corners and edges.
Post by litebright on Apr 17, 2014 23:17:59 GMT -5
We went with the ugly-but-soft ottoman and put our coffee table in the basement. My kids like to jump back and forth between the ottoman and the couch. Since both of them have managed to injure themselves falling into furniture, particularly our dining room bench that is similar to coffee-table height (DD1 got a black eye from the bench as a toddler; and fell against her play table last week and split her upper lip frenulum; DD2 split the skin by her eyebrow falling into the bench, and which = urgent care + skin glue), I think the lack of hard-edged coffee table has been a wise choice for us.
I don't miss a coffee table that much. DH and I just use the side tables next to the couches for food/drink. We'll get something else eventually.
I have a scar on my bottom lip from falling into the corner of my parent's glass coffee table.
Don't let misotiny be me!
But it'll be round!
No, no, I'm just kidding.
I hear you guys re fingerprints, but Windex is pretty easy to use?
Gah. Kid, you are ruining my dream room. LOL.
Glass is so easy to clean. Seriously. Wood, though? Yeah, ask my friends how their gorgeous Dux teak coffee table is holding up to toddler antics. They have taken to always having a blanket over it during their daughter's waking hours.
It's unlikely that the kid will be in this room all that often.
She will have the run of the family room, not this room, which is basically just a piano and art.
My kid is not allowed to jump from pieces of furniture, no matter what room. Misotiny will be fine.
I say go glass, but I am obviously the minority. And I endanger my kid daily with my glass, sharp edged coffee table.
Yep, I know my kid's only 1.5, LOL, but yes, he's tried to climb onto the coffee table. We told him that is not allowed. He has given up (for now). I'm such a cruel mother.
Edit: But bonus! He loves to help clean it. Truly. Kid gets so excited when the spray bottle and cloth come out.
And I predict Misotiny will behave fine around any and all coffee tables, but she will be personally offended if there is a giant stuffed ottoman where a table is supposed to be.
I got powder coated steel. I needed something visually small. Bonus: It's magnetic and doesn't show fingerprints!
This is nice. I love this!
We have a dark wood apothecary table (it was totally in back then, lol)
I feel like the things I worried about never ended up injuring David. It was always the random shit I never worried about. I'd get what you want, it's all soooo short lived. We actually just pulled our coffee table to the side for years so David could have a play area. I moved it back when we had company.
IDK, I also think your house is way bigger than ours so maybe you have a separate play area? We just have one living area and move shit out of the way, then when guests come, move it back and make it look pretty.
We have a dark wood apothecary table (it was totally in back then, lol)
I feel like the things I worried about never ended up injuring David. It was always the random shit I never worried about. I'd get what you want, it's all soooo short lived. We actually just pulled our coffee table to the side for years so David could have a play area. I moved it back when we had company.
IDK, I also think your house is way bigger than ours so maybe you have a separate play area? We just have one living area and move shit out of the way, then when guests come, move it back and make it look pretty.
Our house is not big, but we do have a family room and a living room. I envision the kid being in the family room all the time.
We just replaced our glass ones with wood hammidowns from my parents.
I hated the glass ones. Not only do they suck to keep clean, but when misotiny gets to climbing and walking, you will be a wreck when she gets near it.
my brother & I grew up in a house with a glass breakfast table, rectangular glass coffee table, side tables with glass. my mom still has some of those. the others didn't break--she sold them when downsizing. wtf is wrong with all of you?! #smug
if I ever spawn, my house will go to shit on account of this post.
too much wine to give you good advice right now, miso. but I have powder coated steel coffee table right now. floor sample. navy blue. very now but I don't care. it was cheap. also have a powder coated white steel c table from room & board. a little disappointed in the craftsmanship, but I'm just being nitpicky.
my brother & I grew up in a house with a glass breakfast table, rectangular glass coffee table, side tables with glass. my mom still has some of those. the others didn't break--she sold them when downsizing. wtf is wrong with all of you?! #smug
if I ever spawn, my house will go to shit on account of this post.
too much wine to give you good advice right now, miso. but I have powder coated steel coffee table right now. floor sample. navy blue. very now but I don't care. it was cheap. also have a powder coated white steel c table from room & board. a little disappointed in the craftsmanship, but I'm just being nitpicky.
have you looked at bludot recently?
Yeah, we had a glass kitchen dining table AND glass coffee table. No issues.
I just looked at bludot. That Sprout coffee table looked cute. I love the Struts, but I really want a round table. And you know I have my fakey steel nightstands from CB2.
Get the glass. The white opaque is amazing and it seems like it's what you really want for the room.
And I am dead, DEAD I SAY, at the suggestion that you purchase a storage ottoman to go with your Murakami flower ball and your Steinway grand piano. OMG.
Post by speckledfrog on Apr 18, 2014 8:54:24 GMT -5
I like the glass one. The "what if they fall into it phase" can go for any surface in your house and is relatively short lived. I would think a glass tabletop would be tempered so it breaking and causing great harm is also unlikely.
Are you laughing because you don't think I will be able to prevent her from destroying that room?
no, just that you'll drive yourself mad trying to keep her from destroying that room. They always, and I mean always, slip through. she may not destroy it, she may only destroy a small part of it, you may in fact manage to keep her out of there, but the effort involved is always more than you'll want to spend.
Perhaps I'm naive, but I remain incredulous about all of these warnings. I wonder if I just grew up in a very differently run household or culture.
Am I the only very good child who almost always obeyed her parents?
I'm serious here.
And my niece and nephew listen to their parents, too. There is no leaping on furniture or drawing on walls or whatever other madness I read about here. If their parents tell them not to touch something, they don't.