Over thinking things is common in the pursuit of a perfect life, in no other place in your home is this more important than your coffee table. If there was ever a piece of furniture that requires a lot of thought and the most perfect home decor it’s the place where you leave your DIY Sharpie mugs.
This coffee table is attempting to be perfect, but it doesn’t have nearly enough crap on it yet.
Cluttering up a coffee table is a sincere challenge faced by perfect people every day. There is so much to consider and so many items in your twee little hoard pile that need a prominent place on a highly visible flat surface.
The first thing that you need to do when decorating your coffee table is decide on a theme – what recently adopted obsession or trend are you embracing this week? For myself, it’s art books, because when people come over I like them to think that I am cultured and artistic. Other themes could be based around the things that you spend too much money on : depression glass, or some hand-tatted piece of crap you curated from your local second hand shop.
This coffee table is loaded with candles and various crafts. Excellent decorating skills are displayed here.
Make sure that you consider scale as well. Since watching television is for the plebeian, it’s fine to use large and visually striking pieces that obscure any and all sight lines, after all you want people to focus on the most important thing in the room, yourself, and not baser distractions like The Carrie Diaries on the CW, Mondays at 8.
Add ambience and show off your crafting skills by placing homemade candles or mason jar lanterns around the surface, remember that you really want to make sure that every square inch of your coffee table is covered with something. The coffee table is a place that your skills can really shine – leave out your work’s in progress, or even place your highly covetable Kitchenaid mixer right in the middle of the table, consider it a shrine to your general perfection, nothing is off limits as coffee table decor if it highlights how amazing you are.
(this is not a sponsored post, there is no sponsored content on Stuff in Mason Jars. All opinions are my own. Seriously though, get the Kitchenaid Mixer. It’s no better than any other mixer, but everyone will covet it and be jealous of you and no perfect kitchen is complete without it and you don’t want to look like you don’t know what you’re doing.)
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