Wrought Iron Coffee Table

Whenever our friends see our wrought iron coffee table, they are always surprised. Sometimes, they seem to be politely pretending to like it, but in general I think that we get more of a positive reaction than a negative one. Nonetheless, at first is didn't really fit with anything else in the room. We are not really metal coffee table people. Instead, we like a very organic, minimalist sort of look. Unfortunately, children often necessitate compromises in design. No matter what I do, I can't keep the boys from wrestling in the living room. Although the wrought iron coffee table has dangers of its own – if someone bangs his head into it, it could result in a trip to the hospital – nonetheless, it is less risky than the glass coffee table that we had before.

It is not one of those glass and metal coffee tables, you see. This one is iron through and through. The whole room has a different look, in fact, since the boys started to be the old enough to cause damage. The coffee table wrought iron, in fact, was not the first thing to go. The first thing to go was the wooden floor. That was really difficult for my wife. She loves wooden floors, and has wanted to have them for years. When we were finally able to afford to move into our own house and get them, we were both overjoyed. Nonetheless, having kids running around all the time does not bode well for the longevity of floorboards. The pet dog didn't help either, and soon the floor was all scuffed and scratched up. We figured that, instead of having a scratched wooden floor, we could have a tile one that looked decently intact.

After that, it was actually comparatively easy to give up our old furniture. For me, and the furniture doesn't matter that much as long as it all matches. The wrought iron coffee table looks very good with the dark leather arm chairs in the room, so everything seems to fit together well. When I first got that wrought iron coffee table, it was really hard to conceptualize how it would fit into the house. It had such a strange look to it – like something out of another age – that I was pretty sure that it would throw everything else off as well. Nowadays, I don't know why I was worried. The metal cafe table looks as natural as the glass one did.