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December 27, 2020
Round, oval or rectangular dining table? How to choose
The time has finally come to decide. What is best for your living room? A round, oval, or rectangular dining table? Learn how to choose the ideal format.
Regardless of the size of your living room, there are pieces of furniture that are essential. The dining table is one of them. It's a space for meals and socializing among friends and family. It's that piece that you can't miss.
Besides complementing the decoration of the space, the dining table represents where meals take place. It's a piece that ends up having different purposes, which only reinforces its importance.
But with the number of dining tables that exist, how do you know which is best for your home? What's the best format of the table, taking into account the room it's intended for?
These are just some of the questions you should take into consideration when choosing. To facilitate your decision, we've gathered a few more topics to help you make your decision between a round, oval, or rectangular dinner table.
The surrounding space
The dining table you choose must leave room for circulation. This surrounding space is essential as it’s the one left around the table.
It's important to consider the size of the room concerned, and more specifically, the space that will surround the chosen dining table. Therefore, there must be some notion of proportionality at this time.
Therefore, the table chosen cannot be too large concerning the area it will occupy. And this is a question that depends a lot on whether the dining table is round, oval, or rectangular.
So, make your decision with the certainty that there is room left to move around the table.
The size
The size of the dinner table is critical in the decision process. Therefore, you need to know how many people will sit or sit regularly at the table you're looking for.
There are undoubtedly several dining tables. Besides the wooden ones, which are usually the biggest, there are those made of iron or stainless steel that you can also adapt to the room that will receive it.
So don't rush. As much as you like that round dinner table, and are sure it complements the decor at home, don't forget the number of people who will occupy it.
Round tables, for example, are perfect for smaller rooms like the kitchen. On the other hand, oval and rectangular tables are more suitable for living or dining rooms, which receive more people.
The colors and materials
The colors and materials of a dinner table are equally crucial to your decision process. That is, as much as you like that white oval table, it probably doesn't fit into your living room.
Even if you fell in love with the rectangular wooden table you saw the other day, it may not fit in your kitchen because of its colors. As such, you must think about the colors of the decoration you already have at home before you make a decision.
This table is a dining space that exists by itself, even if no meals are happening. The dining table often serves to place decorative objects, for example. Also, you must consider the colors and materials of the dining table you'll choose.
Does it complement the darker shades of your living room? Or the lighter ones in your kitchen?
These are questions that you should ask and that easily simplify your task.
The chairs
Let's suppose you're looking for the ideal dinner table and that you already chose the chairs (or even bought them). In either case, you have to consider their shape and size. You have to understand, therefore, if the chairs fit the dining table you're looking for. If they're a perfect size and if they're comfortable. If they're not too low or too high. If they offer the ideal distance from the table not too much, not too little space.
Chairs will also play a crucial role in this decision-making process. The dining table you choose round, oval, or rectangular must match the chairs' colors and materials.
In the end, all these issues are interconnected and complement each other to make your life easier. We know that with the offer that exists, the choice seems to become more and more difficult.
However, if you consider our tips, we're sure that the process will become faster and more fun. After all, few are the feelings that equal the search for new furniture for our home.
