Banish Ugly Coffee Table Clutter With One Easy Trick

Let me share two magic words for clutter-free living: clear surfaces. But while a pared-down coffee table sounds great in theory, how do you keep it from looking like a recycling pile as your favorite fashion books and old copies of Architectural Digests stack up? Simple! Give that stuff a proper place. Step one: grab a rattan basket for your reading material. Step two: put it next to your favorite chair. Step three: snuggle on up. To get you started, here are a few options that will do the trick. And while you're at it, go ahead and throw out that issue you've been saving since January 2015.