Wood Coffee Tables Score Nearly 3x Higher Than Glass With Home-Design Readers
Living rooms · Preference Index
Preference Index for wood versus glass coffee tables (100 = average)
Source: Statwren, Glass Coffee Tables Got Crushed (2026). Positive reactions per view on tagged living-room images, homestratosphere.com, Aug 30 to Sep 23, 2026. 95% intervals: wood 110.9 to 118.9; glass 35.5 to 45.8.
Readers reacted to living-room photos in the normal course of reading. Each image was tagged for its coffee table material, and positive reactions per view were indexed so that 100 is the average living room.
Wood led comfortably. Glass came last on almost 70,000 views, and the gap held on sixteen days of data the original analysis never saw (glass indexed 43.1 on those days alone).
Metal tells a different story: it is not ignored like glass, it is rejected, with a thumbs-down index of 231. Association, not causation: the report discusses the room around the table and the photography.
From the report
The full index covers all five materials, separates approval from rejection and saves, and includes every tagged image in the dataset.
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