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43"-79" Extendable Dining Table for 4-8 with Storage Base
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43"-79" Extendable Dining Table for 4-8 with Storage Base

Part of the Dining Tables collection
$278.99
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A double-layer shelf built into the pedestal is what makes a long extendable table workable in a room without a sideboard. Cutlery, napkins and the things a meal needs halfway through sit under the top rather than on it, within reach from the seated position, which matters when the open table is 78.7 inches long and the kitchen is at one end of it. Two tiers also let you separate what comes out daily from what comes out when the leaves go in.

Finish
Natural oak
Closed
43.3 in round
Extended
78.7 in oval
Storage
Double-layer base

How it lives in the room

Two shelves under an oak oval

Give each tier a job on the first day. Upper tier for mats, napkins and coasters that come out every meal; lower tier for serving dishes and the things that appear when the table is extended. Decided once, it works for years. Left undecided, both tiers fill with whatever has no other home.

Oak reads longer than walnut

A pale top at 78.7 inches looks bigger in a room than a dark one of the same size, because light surfaces advance visually and dark ones recede. In a modest dining room that can tip from generous into dominating. Look at the wall behind where it will stand: oak against white reads vast, oak against a colour reads in proportion.

Note the colour in the title

The listing names natural oak in one place and walnut in another within the same title, which is a copy error rather than a two-tone table. Confirm the finish from the product images before ordering chairs to match, and check what arrives against those images before assembling anything.

Before you order

MDF described as heat-resistant covers a warm serving plate. It does not cover a pan straight off the hob, and the mark that leaves on a laminated oak top is permanent and pale-edged. Trivets, every time, on this finish especially.