Coffee tables are usually set at around 18 20 inches 45 50cm high to create a comfortable balance between standard sofa and chair heights.
Good coffee table height.
If you re armed with a tape measure and a good sense of your needs finding the ideal coffee table comes down to three main factors.
A coffee table should measure 16 to 18 inches from the floor to the tabletop.
Otherwise the standard coffee table height is usually the same height as the cushions on your soft or within 1 2 inches 2 5 5cm lower.
Standard coffee table height.
Choose a coffee table height between 16 and 18 inches.
Ideally the top of a coffee table should be the same height or one to two inches lower than the top of your sofa s seat cushions.
You may base the height of your coffee table on the sizes of other surrounding furniture or on your personal design preferences.
The coffee table should be the same as or 1 2 inches lower than the sofa s seat height.
This allows you to easily grab any drinks or food off the tabletop.
This usually means that the coffee table is somewhere around 40 to 45 cm tall.
If the cushions are extra think the table can be 1 or 2 inches lower than that.
In general the proper height of a coffee table is one that matches the height of the sofa cushions.
Since most sofas have a seat height of about 17 to 19 inches standard.
We recommend choosing a coffee table with a height that is the same as your sofa cushions or 1 2 lower.