However, as we know many of our young (at heart) male executives want a way to relax when they get home after a hard day in the city. So, we have found these examples of what can be done with your coffee table to help alleviate stress and put some fun into your living quarters.

They say that watching fish can help make you feel more relaxed, if that’s correct then this coffee table is ideal for relaxation therapy.

Get rid of that office rivalry feeling when you get home with this ideal coffee table football game.

After a hard day in the office what about some exercise with this trampoline coffee table.

Bored with the same layout but don’t have the energy to move furniture around, then try wheeling this coffee table on wheels around your bachelor pad.

You want to tell them to ‘politely’ go away but then you run the risk of your car or house being hit by a barrage of eggs or worse.

It is easier to just play along – it is only for a few hours, mind. Heck you could even buy some designer furniture that fits into the mood of the day, like below…

1. With this gruesome guy watching over your house, visitors will surely be limited.

2. If the kids manage to get past the front door, there are otherways to scare them, what about this Alien coffee table the perfect way to give them the whole Halloween experience.

3. This ‘scary’ chair will look great in any haunted house.

4. What about the dragons claw as an outside light, this will ensure your little victims will see the way in.

On the other hand you can just do what I do, turn off the lights and pretend your not in. Works a treat!

Big Maoi, Tissue Dispenser : I really am at a lost for words for this, perhaps once you see the price you’ll see the designer was not to be sneezed at for creating this piece.

Black Panther : this is just shouting, sorry growling, out for all those alpha males that this is the sofa for them… also an ideal way for keeping the kids out of your favourite room.

Roma : want to feel like an Emperor this is the sofa for you, Gladiators get ready, however, the only thumb up or down you’ll be doing is on the remote control.

The Cardboard Box : someone paid £600 for this piece, at first glance it looks like cardboard boxes, it is actually soft foam to be used as seating or footstools. Bet the shop that sold this had big windows.

4 legs : this chair is perfect for the bachelor who ‘thinks’ he has everything. When in reality all he has is a very big impression of himself.

The Cowboy Boot : Ride’em cowboy. Ideal for watching eating your favourite Spaghetti Western in. Suitable for all dodgy tradesmen.

In the end I capitulated, and my partners choice of wallpaper hung on the wall like some trophy of the sexes of which she had won. Today, many years later, I understand which battles need fighting and which are just not worth my energy in attempting to muster an opinion.

Looking at the choice of contemporary wallpaper designs available today I imagine that they invoke a disagreement or two between couples. The range of wallpaper styles is impressive and the quality of the texture and materials is of a very high standard indeed. So, in a time, when we are all being told to invest in our own homes for when the housing market finds its feet again, I say, ‘If your going to argue over wallpaper then make sure your certain you’ll win. Because if you don’t, it will be hanging there, for many years to come, as a reminder to you that your choice simply wasn’t good enough!’

The building the penthouses are part of was once a 4-star hotel used by a-list celebrities such as ‘Kate Moss’ and ‘Johnny Depp’ to name a few. Each apartment has been earmarked for a contemporary furniture makeover by contemporary designers such as Patrice Dangel, Mattia Bonetti and Eric Schmitt.

When quizzed over the asking price for the penthouses and apartments, when everybody else is slashing their house prices, James Sherwin just laughed it off saying, “We’re still in the business for something fun. If you buy a landmark building, in a landmark location, in a landmark city, you can’t go wrong.”

Here’s hoping your right James, time for us all to start cheering up and looking forward to when things begin to look brighter.

With that said, how would you go about making a TV commercial for furniture. Get actors to mime to a rock tune? Show children bouncing on your yet-to-be-purchased living room sofa suite? Or would go for the following adverts currently doing the rounds in YouTube?

Make a rap about your Furniture Store :

Or Beat The Crap Out of Your Furniture Stock With a BaseBall Bat :

Perhaps Dress Your Staff up as Pirates and Make a Plank Out of Yourself :

I Say, I Say, Just Give Away Chicken with your Furniture … Aw, Man :