How to Design a Glass Table

A glass coffee table is a furniture piece fit for comfortable living. In a place for quiet reading and relaxing conversation, the table reveals the entire craftsmanship of pleasant wood. The top brightens the room without cluttering the living area with intrusive forms. You can create a good glass table design by carefully planning how the table looks in the living room. Does this Spark an idea?

Instructions

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Watch for fair reflections for your living room. Before considering the shape or glass, decide how much light you want in the room area and the reflections that will please your eyes. These two simple decisions make the rest of your design choices easier.

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Choose the table shape that fits the room arrangement. Stand at the place the table will rest to look over the space. Then, walk through the area to see what living space you have available to work with. Once you have judged the space and surrounding shapes, choose a table shape that fills the right amount of space and complements the couch and surrounding furniture.

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Lay out a table piece that makes a fair platform for a glass top. The wood that lies under the glass gives the top its strength for serving as a table surface. Make the piece large enough to support the top size you want. Select a shape that looks nice in the space.

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Make legs that give the table an open look and keep the table fairly balanced, and sides that support the table without detracting from the beauty of the glass. Straight, or elegantly curved, slender yet faithful legs make nice supports for a glass topped table. Give the table the height you need to place the reflective glass surface in the right place.

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Craft the top supports to balance the glass while attracting only a modest attention. The supports stand on the table piece to uplift the glass. Shapes that turn upward and around, with a smooth surface on the top, like gently curved arms or balls, keep the glass gracefully set. Solid squares provide a secure rest.

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Select the glass top that gives the table a clean look. Crystal-clear, mild blue or deep yellow brown can be the right color for coffee table glass. Settle on a color that matches the living room's color scheme. The shape fits the living space like the table piece. Rectangular glass that rests on a wood rectangle or a glass circle that sets on a circular wooden table piece are ordinary pairs. Yet, a circle can securely rest on a square and make a more engaging shapely pair.

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Put everything together in a table design in colored pencil on paper. Make building the table practical by drawing a technical design on grid paper with a mechanical pencil. The colored layout illustrates the aesthetic style of the piece. To encourage you to turn the design into a furniture piece, the drawing details the plan of work.