The 6ft square of dark wood was perfect. I liked the clean lines and the idea that it was a little "different". What I did not like was I couldn't reach the middle. It was impossible to pass anything across the table or reach the food in the center for family style dining. Also very hard to play games at this table and you know, we do play games in our house. We kept the table for a couple years because it was expensive and the remodel budget had been depleted.
Then a miracle of sorts happened. I saw a table in our friends garage and I liked it. Seeing as I'm so charming or perhaps more that he was so kind, he gave it to me. My friend actually made the table from a door, yes a door and some metal hardware and legs he had fashioned at his machine shop. The color wasn't right so Andrew Henry stripped and restained it and voila...
It is SO much better for us functionally. I'm also not thrilled with the light fixture I originally picked out...
but I'm keeping my eyes open in my friends garage :)
