Dining Tables for our Post-Reno Dining Room
Just before we moved from our apartment into this house, we bought a very stylish Crate and Barrel Parsons dining table with black steel legs and a glass top from a friend ready for something new. It is, it turns out, not a great table when you have young kids; while the top is easy to wipe clean, every spill seeps and every crumb dives into gap between the top of the frame and the glass.
I can’t wait to pass it on to its next owner.
My priority for a new dining table is that it must extend to seat 12 comfortably so we can host our annual Rosh Hashanah dinner and second-night Seder, which means it has to measure at least 120” when at its full length. So far, it’s been easier to identify what we don’t like than what we do: trestle tables, pedestal bases, or anything very farmhouse or super architectural. I also don’t want a table with very angled legs because it makes seating large parties trickier and I don’t want another Parsons-style table or a table with a glass top because I’m slightly traumatized by our current situation. Jon he doesn’t like what he calls “spindly” wood legs so this is out, though I don’t mind it, and I don’t like wide legs, so this is out. We do both like this a lot but it’s static at 120”, which won’t work for our space. (It’s also $6,800, which is way out of our budget.)
There aren’t a ton of options at big-box or chain stores so we might have to go custom at an Amish furnituremaker out in Maryland or Pennsylvania - less expensive than you’d think - and I’m still holding out hope that I’ll stumble on an antique at an estate sale that Jon miraculously doesn’t hate. In the meantime, we do both likes these two from Pottery Barn, so that gives us a starting point!
