Scandinavian-style coffee table: this is how to furnish your living room

A Scandinavian style coffee table is an essential element for the stay of all those people who prefer Nordic style furniture.

The Scandinavian Nordic style (link article Scandinavian style) is very popular in our country and beyond. Here are some important tips for creating your Scandinavian living room, with particular reference to the table element.

Features and peculiarities of the Nordic Scandinavian style

The Nordic Scandinavian style is immediately recognisable thanks to its typical characteristics, which can be summed up as follows:

  • Prevalence of neutral colours (white is the dominant colour)
  • Furniture and floors mainly made of wood
  • Presence of continuous surfaces in resin or similar materials, clear and made with opaque materials (style that prefers minimalism)
  • Extremely sober and minimalist lines
  • Great comfort and hospitality of the rooms, conferred by the use of light and light colours and pastel shades. Use of soft and warm fabrics and presence of numerous windows.

Furnishing the living room in Scandinavian style

How can you furnish your living room in Nordic style? It is possible to give a Scandinavian touch to your spaces with a few simple interventions: here is how to proceed.

We would like to point out that materials, colours and lighting play a fundamental role in configuring a Swedish or Finnish style of furniture.

Scandinavian style continues to be one of the great trends in interior design today. The reason for its great success is certainly to be found in the elegance of its simplicity and the functionality of the elements that distinguish the Scandinavian style.

Typical elements of a Scandinavian style living room

Scandinavian houses are first and foremost comfortable places to stay warm during the long Nordic winter season. Temperatures in Scandinavia during the winter months are very cold. In order not to disperse heat, Nordic houses are built with low ceilings (usually from 220 to 230 centimetres). The furnishings are minimal, functional and in a certain sense essential. The concept behind Scandinavian design implies the elimination of all those elements that could make domestic environments impractical and usable.

For this reason, Nordic furniture makes use of various space-saving elements in which to store clothes, garments and accessories without overloading the environment. In a Scandinavian house there are very few visible objects. The advantage is that you have ample space in which to accommodate as many people as possible and create a warm and welcoming environment.

Scandinavian design: simple and linear shapes

What is most appreciated about Scandinavian design in the world are the linear and precise shapes of its furniture (iconic Swedish style furniture from the 1960s). The minimalism and linearity are expressed in particular in elements such as the sofa, the typical stem lamps, the low tables, the furniture and the wall bookcase.

Complementary elements such as the small table for objects or the armchair in the relaxation corner are also very appreciated. These furnishing elements are characterised by a great lightness, both in terms of the materials used for their production and the shapes, conceived in the name of essentiality.

How to create a Scandinavian style living room

The living room or living area is par excellence the space of relaxation, in which to welcome relatives and friends from time to time. You spend many hours of the day thinking about it in the living room: in the evening after a long day at work or on long rainy winter afternoons. For this reason the search for maximum comfort is essential to enjoy the space of your living room to the fullest.

When creating a living room in Nordic Scandinavian style it is first of all important to pay the utmost attention to the choice of the right sofa: in this regard our advice is to buy a sofa as large as possible and characterized by comfortable and comfortable seating. The ideal choice is represented by the light colours: even better is a leather sofa, maybe used and found in some vintage market, with that lived-in effect perfect to recreate the feeling of comfort and warmth typical of Scandinavian living rooms.

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The sofa must be characterised by a square and linear design: you can also decide to set up a chaise longue that will allow you to lie down comfortably and enjoy a film or a nap. Also in the choice of cushions, it is best to prefer square and linear shapes. A Scandinavian sofa never lacks warm covers and plaids to stay as warm as possible.

On the sides of the sofa area you can decide to prepare a metal lamp, perhaps made with a particularly thin stem and a large, round lampshade.

As far as the materials with which the furniture of a living room in Scandinavian style is concerned, as you can easily guess, wood is the undisputed protagonist. The natural material is used in a Scandinavian living room to create the floor (classic plank parquet of large dimensions), perhaps dyed in light and soft colours, the typical wicker armchair and an inevitable two-sided wall bookcase of considerable dimensions.

In a living room realized following the dictates of the Scandinavian style, a small table characterized by soft, light and essential lines cannot obviously be missing. If you want to give a Scandinavian touch to your living room, here is our beautiful Chile Side Table: with a natural beechwood frame and white polypropylene shelves, this element represents the most suitable choice to complete the furnishing of modern living rooms, inspired by Nordic Scandinavian design.

Alternatively, we offer you the very refined Venezuela Side Table with Wheels: this piece of furniture has a natural beechwood structure and white polypropylene shelves. The coffee table can also be used as a trolley and is particularly suitable for living rooms or kitchens.

Light in a Scandinavian style living room

The study of light and illumination represents an extremely important element in a living room built according to the dictates of the Nordic Scandinavian style: in the Nordic rooms there is a lot of natural light that crosses the spaces through the large windows. Light is an important resource in northern countries: so scarce during the autumn months and so present in the summer months.

In a Scandinavian furnishing context, light is conceived as a tool that helps to give freshness and vitality to domestic environments, giving people a great contribution of energy and making every part of their rooms visible.

Textiles and curtains in a Scandinavian living room

As far as textiles are concerned, a Scandinavian environment favours the use of natural fabrics such as wool and cotton. Curtains represent a very important element for this furnishing style: the Scandinavian style prefers the use of light curtains characterised by light and soft colours. Dark coloured curtains that make the room cold and heavy should be avoided. Packet curtains are probably the most suitable type for a Scandinavian living room.