Coffee tables are of great value

With their many uses, coffee tables have become a staple of living home decorating. They’ve become a home to a wide assortment of everyday items: magazines, coasters and remotes to name a few, with many styles including additional storage for various living room items. Coffee tables can be the center point of a room and a lifelong piece, so be sure to find the perfect fit for your space.

That's a long way to say why we think it's a good idea for Best Buy to be getting intohome furnishings business. Let's face it: The big-box retailers simply can't compete on price alone and have to find other ways to survive. So even though it might seem a bit odd to see Best Buy teaming with an eco-friendly home designer like Maria Yee, it makes sense especially because no one has quite figured out how to display an LCD or plasma TV when it's not mounted on the wall. (The Italians notwithstanding.)

The smart coffee table of the future will be central. The Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense does many of the things that tomorrow’s interactive coffee tables will do, but it’s not ready for the interior decorating consumer market. The Mozayo M42-Pro is ready for the consumer market, but it can’t really do the things that will make future interactive coffee tables compelling. Imagine a coffee table with a smooth, all-glass surface. When you touch it with your hand, it will come alive. Gestures such as swiping up will bring up various options. While the surface of the table is lit, various objects, such as phones, will be recognized by the table, enabling neat tricks. For example, by placing a smart phone on the table, it not only will know who you are but will enable you to selectively spill out digital pictures and videos onto the table.

To choose the best acrylic coffee table, one must consider the size, shape, style, and color of the various tables on the market. In almost all cases, an acrylic coffee table will lend itself to a space that is designed and decorated with a very modern sensibility, which means that this sort of coffee table does not work well in all settings. The first and most important consideration is size. If the table is too large or too small it will look out of place and can make movement in the space awkward. Before shopping for an acrylic coffee table, be sure to measure the space where the table must fit and define a range of acceptable sizes.