Slate Inlay Coffee Tables

Looking for slate inlay coffee tables?

Slate is a very useful stone employed more popularly for roof tiles and shingles and were once the material for chalkboards.

Recently, slate has found a more ornamental application, to serve as tops or to decoratively line wooden or metal tables, especially coffee tables.

Slate is one of those foliated, fine grained rock whose cleavage and grain allow it to be divided into thin panels.

This makes the material easy to work into furniture, particularly for tables.

Slate is usually featured in inlay patterns in the table top, or as the table top itself, usually trimmed with a wooden frame or placed on top of a steel base.

Furniture sculptors even specialize in handcrafted slate table tops for coffee tables, with numerous different designs for each.

Wooden coffee tables with slate inlay usually have iron or steel legs as slate can be a heavy stone for inlays.

This of course depends on how much or how big the sheet of slate is used.

But even though they may be a heavy piece of furniture, coffee tables with slate inlays are appealing because they always look quite beautiful, and lend a sense of elegance to any room.

Slate is quite attractive, as they come in gorgeously natural colors that are unique to this kind of stone.

Brazilian slate is particularly popular, with deep tones set against the material used for the rest of the coffee table.

Ardesia slate has a one of a kind dark gray color that is quite exquisite and much sought after.

Other colors and kinds of slate include Raja Red, Iron Mountain, Mariposa, Kashmere, Charcoal Black and Brazilian Black.

Different colors of slate can be used together to create tile patterns.

These coffee tables with slate inlays in patterns will be gorgeous accents to a Spanish or Mediterranean style house.