Ideal for today’s furniture collectors who appreciate the rustic simplicity and traditional appearance of furniture from bygone eras, farmhouse kitchen tables are one of the most popular furniture items sought after by interior decorators, house restoration experts, and those living in historic homes. Different from other tables, in addition to their longstanding heritage in America, these tables are unique in their design. While most traditional kitchen and dining tables have a table and set of chairs, a farmhouse kitchen table can have all chairs or a mix of chairs and benches. This varied seating is popular with people who have large families or those who like to host large parties and entertain guests.
While today’s craftsmen can re-create these tables in woods selected by customers, farmhouse tables of years past always used locally-available woods. Appreciating their natural surroundings, tables also had wooden legs that displayed intricate carvings of local flora and fauna; a characteristic copied from earlier French designs. Most often found in large rectangular designs, farmhouse tables can also come in square, round and smaller rectangular shapes.
Used as the family’s gathering spot, adults utilized these tables as a place to discuss important family, business and farm issues; while children who labored on the family’s farm during the day, used the table as a place of evening study. Because children received home instruction, tables also served as desks. A center of family life, when it was time to meet; instead of heading to a living or family room, adults and children headed to their kitchen table.
If interested in purchasing a farmhouse kitchen table, shoppers can choose from purchasing a vintage, antique table or ordering one from a craftsman specializing in early American furniture. Antique tables can be hard to find and will not always be in mint condition; therefore, buyers will pay a premium for a used and possibly damaged table. Ordering one new will still be expensive, as each element of the table will be handmade. Weighing more than a smaller dining room table of today, when shipped; buyers may incur hefty shipping and handling fees. Whether choosing to purchase and antique table or have one re-created, this investment can last a lifetime and will be an asset your children and their future generations will treasure forever.
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