Lately I’ve been giving a lot of thought to breaking an unwritten decor rule: that a sofa be accompanied by a coffee table. In my home, our coffee table is nearly as long as our sofa and eats up a lot of floor space in our small living room. The room is our children’s primary play area so this would open up more space and also make the room feel larger by simply having less furniture to look at. To get my husband on board with the idea I compiled a visual exhibit of others who eschew the coffee table:
