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How to pick a Farmhouse Barnwood Table for your Holiday Dinner

Here are some tips on picking the right Farmhouse style table for your Hoilday Dinner

How to pick a Farmhouse Barnwood Table for your Holiday Dinner

How to Pick a Barnwood Table for the Holidays

Your dining table will be the center of attention for your cookie swaps, Friendsgiving, family feasts and cocktail hours. Our barnwood farm house tables are loved for creating a warm and cozy dining setting while still staying true to the classic and traditional styles we have always treasured.

1. Room size: First, measure the room where the  barn wood farm house table will go. You want to make sure the table will fit comfortably, without hitting any walls. In addition, choose a table width that allows everyone to pass plates around. You know everybody will be eager to eat all the delicious holiday trimmings, so you don’t want anything getting in the way.

2. Guest count: Next, take the guest count into consideration. On average how many people will be attending some of your holiday festivities? You want to make sure everyone has enough elbowroom when sitting down for a meal.

3. Table aesthetic: Lastly, you’ll need to decide on the shape of table that will work best for your home. A round table opens up conversation, where as a rectangle table may seat more.

 

We always have a variety of tables already made and in stock. We suggest taking a look at our reclaimed barnwood tables listed on the “In-Stock Unfinished Furniture” and “In-Stock Finished Specials” pages of our website.

Contact us if you have any questions, we’d be glad to help!

 

Enhance Your Home With Our Reclaimed Wood Dining Room Tables

Picture this: Friends and family gathered around the dining table feasting on some good eats. The table is dressed with your favorite runner, candles flickering energetically as you pass food across the table. Everyone is relaxed, everyone is at home.

We know that in many cultures, the sharing of food is how we show our love and how we deepen our connections with one another. You could say that your dining room tables are the heart of the home and where we tend to host most of our guests.

The trouble is, how do we maintain the refined and traditional look of the dining rooms we have grown to love while still adding our own personality to the mix? That’s why we we love working with customers on customizing our beautiful handmade reclaimed wood dining tables.

A barnwood table offers plenty of room for your guests to comfortably relax, while enjoying great company. A reclaimed wood dining table is much more than a piece of furniture for your friends and family to eat dinner at – it’s a place where all your memories get engraved, deep in the wood, meal after meal.

How to Pick a Dining Room Table

When considering what type of table base you want, it’s important to consider the look you would like to achieve, as well as functionality for your family and friends. Think about how many people you would want to seat and any limitations within your space.

  • Space matters
    • Room for your guests to pull out their chair and sit down comfortable
    • Room for guests to walk around the table
    • A table width that allows plates to be passed across with ease
  • Guest count
    • For an informal setting, guests can typically sit closer together compared to a formal room
    • Allow for extra elbow room
  • Party planning
    • Is your space being utilized only for dining hours or for meal prep?
    • A round table opens up conversation, whereas a rectangle table may seat more

Barnwood Dining Table Base Options

Once you have a size in mind, look at the style of the rest of the furniture in the room and how you want your table to be designed.

To tackle the design can seem overwhelming, so we recommend starting small with the table legs. There are several different leg options that come into play when choosing the perfect base from pedestals to trestle styles. Don’t see something that fits your style? We can easily customize for you!

Pedestals

Reclaimed Wood Dining Room Table Finishes

Many people feel that a barnwood table means staying true to the original wood color, however, we love adding some personality to our furniture with barnwood paint or stain. Both can help you create a one-of-a-kind piece of barnwood furniture that offers a pop of color in an unexpected way. For example, a pale blue or yellow works well to brighten the room.

Paint Color

 Dining Room Table Shapes

The next element you need to consider when purchasing a barnwood dining table is the tabletop shape; round, square, or rectangle. Once you have the shape down, then you can choose a rustic farmhouse alternative with a loose board top or something a little more classic with a smooth tabletop. There is no right or wrong answer – remember to choose what is right for you in terms of your style and functionality.

Table Finishes

Want to get started on your barnwood dining table design? Contact us with your ideas – we can’t wait to get started!

 

Reclaimed Furniture and Wooden Luxury Home Design

At Old Barn Star, we’re proud of the craftsmanship in our reclaimed furniture. Its technique is uncompromising, classic, rustic and reliable. As culture accelerates and media feed other media, we sometimes find, at the end of the day, that we’re left loving the same things we loved when we set out at the beginning of the day.

That is to say that many exciting new trends emerge in every space, interior design included, but our hair-trigger society weeds out those with no staying power more quickly than ever. Lately, there has been a big resurgence in the classic, wooden luxury home design.

It’s a motif we’re quite familiar with and though we’ve never changed our methods, it seems they’re more in vogue than ever before. Longevity, hard work and personal touch are rewarded in the public consciousness, so we thought it timely to look at some homes that celebrate the same things we do.

Wooden Luxury Homes and Designs

1) Bryan Reid’s Luxury Log Cabinreclaimed furniture

This mammoth California wooden luxury home taps into the exciting recurrence of heavy wood to evoke an atmosphere that’s just begging for reclaimed furniture. Its structure is exclusively wooden, coming from a variety of trees including Douglas fir and white pine.

The logs are finished lightly for a natural, fresh-cut look. We particularly love the energy efficiency of this place. Its temperature is regulated naturally. By balancing the natural insulation of the logs with opening and closing the windows at the right times of day, this California home maintains a temperature in the low 70s without using any energy.

The lighting is also provided naturally, for the most part. The intelligent placement of windows allows the sun to do the work of lighting this kitchen. All it needs is a reclaimed barnwood table at its center.

2) The Amrein’s Smoky Mountain Luxury Homereclaimed barnwood table

This mountain hideaway is made almost exclusively of Eastern white pine farmed near its Tennessee property. The angular, lofted ceilings and décor celebrate Mrs. Amrein’s Cherokee heritage and, like the Reid home, it’s very energy efficient, both in tribute to the Cherokee way of life and to celebrate a sustainable future.

The copper ceiling over the dining room table evokes an aged penny, as if it were a bit of coinage from the frontier era. The glossy finish suggests an entire atmosphere of reclaimed furniture, so we imagine this place, too, could easily benefit from real reclaimed barnwood accessories to add to its authenticity.

3) Modern Wooden Homereclaimed wood dining table

This tidy architectural marvel by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects seems almost like a dream, a mirage among the tall grasses. It delights in exposing its design on the interior rather than hiding it away. This effect gives the home an almost unfinished feel, as though its work is not yet done.

The ample windows let the outside bleed into the inside, but there is a stark segregation between the fierce lines and angles within and the untamed beauty of the curving trees and grasses outside. We just love this home! reclaimed barn wood table Its interior is larger than it would appear it could be from the outside. Its circular reclaimed wood dining table is perfect for its little corner. The living room’s Pacific Ocean view allows for an amazing look at the sun setting on the West Coast, which is a magical experience.

We adore these homes! We thought you’d appreciate their wooden luxury home designs and attention to detail. It’s exciting that wood is on the rise again and if we repurpose woods that have already fallen, then we’re conserving.

We’re not contributing to wood shortage issues and we’re using wood that’s already seasoned and primed to weather another couple hundred years. Think of the tasteful ways you could incorporate reclaimed wood furniture in your home’s motif today! We’d love to hear your ideas.

What are you doing to get a natural vibe in your home? Tell us about it on Facebook and Twitter, and keep checking the blog for more updates!

Pinterest: The Perfect Place for Your Reclaimed Wood Furniture Plans

reclaimed wood furniturePinterest is a great tool for organizing your thoughts and planning your world. Check out the Old Barn Star Pinterest page to see all of our reclaimed wood furniture pieces and to keep up on Amish-made furniture news.

With Pinterest, we’ve laid out all of our products by category. The website’s unique visual layout allows you to compare the look and feel of similar products to find the perfect piece for your home or office. Repin the furniture you like, so your followers can see your ideas.

amish made furnitureThat leads us to the beautiful part of Pinterest. You can chase down pins and repins to see what other Old Barn Star fans and customers are interested in. You may find an interesting and unique use for your new reclaimed wood dining table. Perhaps one of our followers has found the perfect décor to complement your new reclaimed wood bookcase. The possibilities are endless on Pinterest.

Repin our furniture pieces on Pinterest, and pin other ideas that you like too! Stay in touch with us on Facebook and Twitter. We’d like to know the ways you’re enjoying our Amish-made furniture.