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Occasional Tables as Utility Tables and Precious Keepsakes

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Occasional tables can serve many functions, not just as decorative elements, but also as the extra surface space needed for small kitchen appliances, the printer that will not fit on your home office desk, or as a nightstand beside the bed in your guest room. Occasional tables can extend the kitchen or bathroom counter, making the space more functional, or can serve as storage space for small items that are used on a regular basis.

Guest rooms are often the most eclectic room in the house since most of us do not buy furniture to decorate this room. Leftovers from other rooms and other times often make the guest room the most interesting room in the house. If you want to really know someone, examine his or her guest room. Well, ok, do not really do that, but if you have a chance to visit in their home, take a peak and you will often find those items that may not fit with their current design theme, but that are too precious to them to be relegated to the attic or yard sale.

The history of many families can be told beginning in the guest room. Great Grandpa’s shaving mug may be on the shelf, and Grandma’s quilt may adorn the bed, but the small tables are often the things we keep and that are precious to us because of whose they were. Not only do they serve a utilitarian purpose, but also hold a place in our hearts. Polishing the wood that your grandmother polished can bring you close to her all over again, even if she has been gone for many years. Dusting an occasional table that was in your great grandmothers parlor will bring her back to your memory time and again and that table will forever be “Grandmother’s table.”

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