Tip of the Day #27
September 24, 2007 by Julie Bonner
Filed under Home & Living
It’s a good idea to stick to a “3 items on coffee table rule”. A messy coffee table can make your whole living room/family room look very cluttered.
Take a look and see what is cluttering up the surface. If it’s magazines, tissue box, toys and remotes, find some alternative solutions to storing those items. The magazines could go in a basket under the coffee table. The toys need to be put back where they belong. The tissue box can stay, as long as it’s one of the 3 items and as far as the remotes, store them in a decorative basket on top of the coffee table.
Keeping these items containerized will help make your living room/family room look much less cluttered.
So that’s where I’ve been going wrong… 30 items is just too many right?? Okay, I’m not really that bad, but our coffee table looks messy… a lot! Must bring up this rule at dinner tonight!
Lol! Have fun bringing that up at dinner and let me know how it goes.
Or you could just go my route and completely get rid of the coffee table. It was getting in the way of my kids’ hand stands and I was tired of my 3 year old jumping from the coffee table to the couch and vice versa. One of these days I’ll have my beloved coffee table back.