I am a huge fan of saving space in my apartment so needless to say I keep this in mind when I shop for any piece of furniture. Lately, I have been doing some research on the best coffee tables with storage. I’m a little torn because I know if I simply reduced the clutter in my apartment and the number of possessions I have I wouldn’t have to buy so many pieces of furniture with additional storage.
Here are the two types of coffee tables with storage that I’m looking at:
Leather Ottoman Coffee Table
This has been one of my longed after pieces of furniture for quite some time. I was turned on to ottomans when living in Ontario and had a flip top ottoman. I would love to get my hands on a large square leather ottoman coffee table. The ones with flip tops that can turn the comfortable ottoman into a functional coffee table.
The storage on these things are incredible and you can find them in square or rectangle shape depending on the size of your living room. Personally, I’ve been looking at *this leather ottoman* but its price tag is keeping me from pulling the trigger entirely – mainly because I’m a cheap student again though.
The leather ottoman coffee table is stylish and practical, no doubt about it. One of the best things I enjoy about it is how light it is compared to traditional coffee tables. I have an oak coffee table that weighs a ton. Comparing this to the leather ottoman makes me wish I bought one before we moved into the new place.
Lift Top Coffee Table
Lift top coffee tables are another coffee table with storage option that we are looking at. The price tag on these guys are more much reasonable than on the leather ottomans and they are a little more practical than having a leather top.
The lift top coffee table is usually build in a solid wood (the ones I’ve been looking at have been solid oak) and are hollow with a hinge attached to one side. These storage coffee tables are often referred to as storage trunk coffee tables. They are a little heavier than the ottoman but are not much worse than a regular coffee table since they are hollow.
Coffee table with under the table storage
There are a variety of storage coffee tables with the storage built under the table instead of within it. I used to own a table like this, actually. The one thing I like about this is that it is much easier to access anything you have stacked underneath. The downside however is that you can see the clutter if you have a lot put under.
All of these coffee tables with storage would look great in the apartment, but I am leaning toward the lift top simply because of its price. I do love the style of the leather ottoman but I have yet to find a used one at a cheap price. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of cheap leather ottomans with storage.
I may update this as I research some more options for storage coffee tables. I suspect I’ll purchase a lift top for now, but my hunt for a great looking leather ottoman isn’t over yet – and who knows, I might stumble across something that I haven’t heard of before, right?
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