Mahogany Glass Top Dining Table

When you're setting up your dining room, the most the piece that pulls the room together isn't the rug, or the china cabinet or sideboard - it's the dining table. Think about it, people may ooh and ahh at the art you have on the walls, or look at the beautiful china you have in the cabinet, but most of the time? They'll be sitting around the table looking towards and around it. As such, it's the most important piece of the dining room set, and the one you should take the most care when selecting. For this reason, I suggest you consider a glass top dining table in your search, both for its beauty and versatility, not to mention lower price compared to a wooden table.

Maybe you've started entertaining guests at your house more often lately (as I noticed I was doing), and thought that your home furnishings could use a little sprucing up. I highly suggest you start with the main furniture piece in each room, fix that up, make it shine, and then move on to the next room, and eventually the less important pieces in each room. I've been to houses with one room exquisitely made up, but the rest of the place needing some work - it's very obvious that your host is trying to steer you into staying in the room they've spent so much time on - the difference makes it even more so!

When choosing a dining table, people don't often think of going with one with a glass top. These days I mostly see mahogany and other types of fine woods, but the glass top dining table is definitely underrepresented. People use a table cloth so often anyway, what's the difference whether the table underneath is wood or glass, given the difference in cost between the two? Glass is easy to clean, while wood gets weathered by time and wear, and has to be re-finished every few years. Covering a wooden table with a tablecloth isn't the solution to all problems, nor is a vinyl covering - wood is more susceptible to all wear and tear than a thick glass top. So much goes into the maintenance of a wooden dining table that I can't see how the cost in time and money and effort is worth whatever perceived benefits over a glass top option one can find. Don't think that because it's in your dining room nothing will go wrong, things won't be spilled, kids won't run around, etc - it's the things we don't expect that end up happening, and I have the stains and chips to prove it!

Glass Top Dining Table - Style and Safety

Glass tables are available in any style necessary to match the decor of your dining room and home. Most likely they'll fit modern homes the best as they're closest to that design aesthetic, but contemporary or more classical approaches are definitely possible. I recommend doing lots of internet research as to what's available - check with many retailers online and if necessary, print out photos and take them to your local retailers, see if they can figure something out that'll fit both your budget and home decor.

Many people think that because a glass top dining table is, well, glass, that it'll be less safe around kids or around people in general. Everyone's been around when a glass falls in the kitchen and shatters - everyone immediately checks to make sure no one has been cut, before carefully stepping out of the room and quickly and exhaustively cleaning up the break. Rest assured that just because it's made of glass doesn't mean it's less safe. On the contrary the glass will be tough safety glass - similar to the bullet proof glass on armored cars. It has to be able to withstand the rough and tumble world of dinner parties, after all! Coupled with the ease of cleaning (just use a special glass cleaner that we all most likely already stock for windows) and you're all set after a busy night carousing with friends and family.

I'm busily redoing my house these days, from the furniture on up, and the dining room is pretty much first on my list given my wife's penchant for throwing dinner parties (I cannot complain as her cooking is incredible, whereas I am at best unwelcome in the kitchen). The best feature of a glass top dining table lies in its versatility. Lower cost than an expensive mahogany dining table, and I can cover it up any way I'd like depending on the occasion. Next up, the rest of the main rooms, then back to the dining room for more. It never ends, but I gotta say, home improvement is a lot of fun.