Stone Coffee Table

Are you after more of a natural look for your living room but aren't too excited about timber furniture? One of the best centerpieces is a magnificent stone coffee table.

Stone coffee tables are available in many different types of stone. The most popular today are slate, marble and highly sought after onyx. Despite the fact that stone is heavy and hard to move around, coffee tables made of stone are guaranteed to bring a nice balance and elegance to an otherwise homey style living room.

If you set your stone coffee table against at atmosphere of plush pillowed sofas and matching chairs and have it sit on top a contrasting coloured woven carpet it will blend the ambiance of both soft and hard, both familiar and modern, and both warm and attractive. Stone marble and slate coffee tables are items today that are highly sought after.

Modern marble coffee tables can either be manufactured from solid marble from the top to the legs, while slate being of a slightly softer nature is far more popular as just the table top of the coffee table with inlays in timber or wrought iron.

The variety of marble used for making coffee tables includes mainly South American, Chinese, Greek and Turkish marble. However most of the slate that is used to make coffe tables these days comes from Eruope and is highly prized when it is of the Egyptian variety. The slabs of these Egyptian stones have very unique and distinct designs, having being naturally crafted over many years of weathering.

The beautiful edges, both sharp and soft patterns that appear somewhat randomly throughout the smooth surface of these stones always looks dazzling and spectacular under any lighting. You may even find some stone which contains fossil impressions of leaves and branches that has developed naturally over many centuries.

Onyx is another fantastic table top, as many manufactures use it becuse of its ability to allow light to shine through becuse of its translucent nature. The colours of this semi-precious stone is many, everything from natural white, light and daker greens, and honeycomb colours with each variant of colour giving off different effects when introduced to lighting. Some of the manufacturers are even willing to allow to choose the kind of stone to be used.