diff --git a/R/stars.R b/R/stars.R
index f0ec6446..005cbc43 100644
--- a/R/stars.R
+++ b/R/stars.R
@@ -473,15 +473,11 @@ st_coordinates.dimensions = function(x, ...) {
 #' @param add_coordinates logical; if `TRUE`, columns with dimension values preceed the array values, 
 #' otherwise they are omitted
 as.data.frame.stars = function(x, ..., add_max = FALSE, center = NA, add_coordinates = TRUE) {
-	if (add_coordinates) {
-		coords = st_coordinates(x, add_max = add_max, center = center, ...)
-		setNames(
-			data.frame(coords, lapply(x, function(y) structure(y, dim = NULL))),
-			c(names(coords), names(x))
-		)
-	}
+	df = setNames(as.data.frame(lapply(x, function(y) structure(y, dim = NULL))), names(x))
+	if (add_coordinates)
+		cbind(st_coordinates(x, add_max = add_max, center = center, ...), df)
 	else
-		setNames(as.data.frame(lapply(x, function(y) structure(y, dim = NULL))), names(x))
+		df
 }
 
 add_units = function(x) {