Wooden Dining Tables
A wooden dining table is the piece a kitchen or dining room settles around, gathering marks and memories in equal measure as the years pass. At Loom Loft, you'll find wooden dining tables in oak, teak, acacia and mango, in round, oval, square and rectangular shapes, with fixed and extending designs to suit how often you have people over. White Glove delivery is available on every one.
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Choosing a shape for your room
Shape does more for a dining room than size alone. A rectangular table suits a long room and seats the most people along its length. A round table encourages conversation across the whole group and takes the sharp edges out of a tight kitchen, and an oval gives you much of that softness with a little more length to work with. A square table is lovely for four in a compact space.
As a general guide, allowing around 60cm of table width per diner keeps everyone comfortable, and roughly a metre of clearance around the table leaves room to pull chairs out and walk behind them. Browse by shape through our round dining tables and rectangular dining tables pages, or see the extending dining tables if you would like the option of a bigger table at Christmas without living with one all year.
Timbers, grains and finishes
Different timbers give a room quite different characters. Oak is the mainstay, hard-wearing and warm, and it takes a range of finishes from pale and limed through to smoked and fumed for a darker, more contemporary look. Teak brings a rich, close grain that suits parquet and slatted tops beautifully. Acacia and mango are prized for their movement and figure, and live edge tops make the most of the natural outline of the board, so no two are ever quite alike.
Metal bases have become a popular pairing with all of these, giving a slim, confident line beneath a generous top. If you would rather a different surface entirely, our stone dining tables and glass dining tables offer a cooler, more reflective feel.
Looking after a wooden table
Wood is forgiving and rewards a little routine care. Wiping spills promptly, using mats under anything hot and keeping the table out of direct sunlight where you can will all help the finish stay even. Oiled tops can be refreshed at home now and again, which is part of the appeal, since a wooden table can be brought back to life rather than replaced.
Grain, colour and knot pattern vary from piece to piece, which is exactly what gives a solid timber table its character. Our showroom teams can talk you through the finishes in person if you would like to see them side by side.
Coordinating chairs and ranges
Getting the seat height right matters more than matching the timber exactly. For a table of around 75cm, a seat height of roughly 45 to 47cm sits comfortably. Many people now deliberately mix a timber table with upholstered chairs or a bench along one side, which softens the look and frees up floor space.
Our wooden dining seating and dining chairs pages are the place to start, and a dining bench works well in a kitchen where chairs would crowd a walkway. The Hamilton range and Sunburst range both run across dining and living pieces if you would like the room to feel cohesive, and the Marlborough Rectangular Dining Table is one of the most popular tables in this category. To browse complete ranges together, see dining by collection.
