Which coffee table suits your sofa?

Start with the lines of your sofa

Look at the shape of your sofa first. A long, straight sofa asks for a coffee table that follows its length. A corner sofa creates an inside corner, where a shape without a direction works best. A sofa with two armchairs opposite forms a circle, so you want a table that is equally far from every seat.

Consider the style of your sofa too. A crisp sofa with straight arms gains softness from a round or organic table. A sofa with rounded forms, in bouclé or velvet, finds calm next to a simple oval.

Round, oval or organic

An overview of what usually works well. These are rules of thumb: your room and your habits have a say as well.

An organic coffee table, shaped like a river pebble, goes with almost any sofa. It has no front and no corners, so it becomes more of an object than a piece of furniture.

Size and height

A few numbers are all you need. An oval or organic coffee table is about two thirds of the length of your sofa: with a 2.2 m sofa, that is roughly 140 x 80 cm. A round coffee table has a diameter of about half the sofa length: with a 2 m sofa, Ø 90 to Ø 110 cm usually works well. You leave 40 to 50 cm between the sofa and the table. And the table is about as high as your seat, or a few centimetres lower. Most people choose 40 cm.

So measure your sofa first, then the seat height and the free space up to the wall or the TV unit. With those three measurements you can see on paper which shape fits, before you even order a sample.

The tables and the maths are in How high and how big should a coffee table be? We make every coffee table at the height you choose, from 30 to 45 cm, without changing the price.

Two coffee tables together

With a large corner sofa or a seating area with many places, one big table often feels too heavy. Two coffee tables in different sizes and heights, one slid slightly under the other, give more rhythm and stay easy to move.

A classic pairing is a round table 40 cm high with a smaller one of 30 to 35 cm next to it. A round and an organic shape also work well together. We then draw them as a pair, so they sit nicely side by side. A side table next to your sofa can be made on request in the same Mortex.

Colour: with your sofa or your dining table

Mortex is matt and mineral, yet warm to the touch. That is why it goes with fabric, leather and velvet. The photo shows two coffee tables in BM19 Cacao Mid with a green velvet sofa: warm with warm, the sofa adding the accent.

You can also repeat the colour of your dining table or mirror, so living and dining room read as one. There are 96 colours, all at the same price. Choose your colour on a real sample, in your own light: colour samples at home. Adding a mirror? Read A large mirror in the living room.