Eat in Front of the Television on a Lift-Top Coffee Table

Ah, the American dreams: watch television and eat good food al at the same time. The old fashioned family dining set up was thrown out the window with the invention of the TV dinner and now that there is a television in almost every room of the average American house it is becoming more and more common for families to gather around the boob tube and scarf down their meals. There is a downside to this style of eating though, it is incredibly uncomfortable at times and often quite difficult.

When you’re eating in front of the television on a couch of a lazy-boy chair you don’t have anything to rest you plate on. I’ve seen my friends and family try eating awkwardly against the arm rests of their chairs, teetering the plate delicately on a not so squared foundation. I’ve also seen people holding their plates on their hands or their laps, getting food all over themselves as they eat.

If we’re going to move the dining experience away from the dining table and into the living room there has to be some kind of alternative that will bring the casual and the formal all together in a neat accommodating union.

Well, let me tell you that there is such a union. The lift top coffee table is the perfect balance between dining room and living room. During the regular course of the day you will notice that the lift top coffee table is little more than a coffee table. It sits quietly in the center of the room between the sofa and the television, holding books and looking quaint. However, as soon as you are ready for a dining experience like no other you can sit down on the couch with your food and pull the table top right out onto your lap.

Yes, I just said that you can pull the table top to you on the couch. The idea behind the lift top coffee table is that no one likes to make their back ache by bending forward and leaning over the coffee table to eat so why not bring the coffee table to your level? You lift the top right out of the table and you can move it to wherever you find it most comfortable then you lock it in place and you have a perfect dining room table for you living room viewing.

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