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5-Piece Round Dining Table Set for 4, Vintage
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5-Piece Round Dining Table Set for 4, Vintage

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Twenty-five millimetres is about an inch of steel tube, and on a pedestal table that figure matters more than the finish does. A round top has no corner legs to brace against, so every elbow and every lean on the rim travels down one column into the cross foot. Thicker tube and a carbon steel frame are what stop that becoming a wobble after a year of family meals. The thickened MDF top is rated heat, scratch and water resistant, which in daily terms covers mugs and wet plates.

Top
42 in round, vintage
Set
Table plus 4 chairs
Legs
25 mm tube, carbon steel
Ships as
2 packages

How it lives in the room

Count on an inch of steel tube

The leg diameter is the spec worth reading on any pedestal table, because it carries loads a four-legged frame spreads across the corners. Twenty-five millimetre tube in a cross arrangement is why four adults can lean on the same edge without the top shifting. Check the bolts where the column meets the cross after the first month of use.

Stack the shelf with mats and trivets

The lower shelf is the reason this set works in a kitchen with no sideboard. Placemats, coasters, the pepper mill and a trivet live there and come up as a set when the table is laid. A shelf left empty for a month stays empty for years, so load it on the first evening.

Flip the assembled top with help

Cross-base tables go together face down on the carton, then get turned over once the column and feet are bolted on. That is a two-person lift at 42 inches across. Doing it alone is how a corner of the rim gets dinged against a doorframe before the table has carried a single plate.

Before you order

Water resistance describes the surface, not the cut edge. MDF swells where a seam or a fixing hole meets moisture, so the one place to keep dry is the underside rim rather than the top you can see.