Living With a Round Dining Table: The Honest Version
Half of us think a round table is the single best decision you can make in a dining room, the other half think it’s a shape that only works if…
The Ones Who Love the White Dining Table and the Ones Who Don’t
This isn’t really a disagreement about a table. It’s a disagreement about how a person wants to live, and the white dining table just happens to be the thing that…
The Small Dining Table That Won Over the Skeptics
There was a two year argument in this office about whether a small dining table could ever survive an actual household, or whether it was just a nice idea for…
The Industrial Dining Table We’d Pick Again in a Heartbeat
There’s a faction here that thinks industrial means one thing and one thing only, black steel legs, a top that looks like it survived a warehouse fire, nothing softer than…
A Marble Dining Table Six Months In
The delivery driver who brought it in said, completely unprompted, while easing it off the trolley, “these things always end up the villain of somebody’s kitchen story eventually.” We laughed…
The Glass Dining Table Our Guests Always Comment On
A guest said it within about ninety seconds of sitting down, glass in hand, before she’d even worked out what to say about the food. “God, I could never have…
The Extendable Dining Table Nobody Talks About Enough
Nobody on this team actually argues about the table itself. What we argue about is what kind of person needs twelve seats twice a year and keeps the leaves in…
The Black Dining Table Debate in Our Group Chat
Someone dropped a photo into the group chat of a black table with chunky pedestal legs and the words “this one, non negotiable” and honestly it has not settled since.…