Rustic Dining Table

A great rustic dining table should never be rushed. It should be carefully considered and lovingly crafted by the talented hands and heart of someone who lives and breathes well made, lifelong furniture. You will admire their hard work and honed skills in every unique detail of your one of a kind item.

Most of the rectangular rustic table and rustic round dining table listings you find on this page are not stocked, are not mass produced, and you will never find two that are exactly alike. These pieces are handmade, basic, simple, crude, and utilitarian. They are perfectly imperfect.

In the “Amazon Prime” age where we expect over-produced goods at our doorstep tomorrow, we invite you to remember the value of hand crafted items. Furniture designed and created by the hardworking artisans who live among you, making their living doing what they know best. Rustic home decor should never be manufactured, churned out by machines. That defeats the intent. Each piece should be unique, with a human roughness and irregularity that the precision of machines could not possibly begin to appreciate.

Rustic kitchen tables are a popular design trend as of late, with their close-to-nature, ecofriendly sentiments and charming individuality. Check any current magazines or blogs about home decor, or visit newly renovated restaurants or hotels, and you will likely see a common theme of “rustic chic” or what’s often referred to as “shabby chic”. Explore Etsy for anything rustic, and you’ll find over a million items (no really, we’re not joking. Click the link).

Why are we so drawn to this aesthetic style? Why now? Is it because we’ve become so overly saturated with the same boring cookie-cutter designs for home dining furniture from the likes of Ikea and WalMart that we could scream? Possibly. Probably. Not to knock them of course – they’re great for college students, and recent grads starting out in their first apartment, and most of all, established families who are working so hard to stretch their less than ideal paychecks. For these people, we thank you Ikea and WalMart.

But if you have found yourself in a place to be able to afford more, and if you are drawn to the unique shabby charm of a rustic dining set, then consider yourself blessed and/or lucky. Very lucky. Consider selecting dining furniture that is special enough it could become an heirloom piece that your children will accept wholeheartedly. Consider how long a piece of rustic wood furniture will last. Consider how many memories will be buried into those woodgrains for ages to come.

Some (but not all!) of the dining furniture on this page is carefully hand-made by American Craftsmen, so they are all slightly different. That means you are buying a truly unique piece for your home that will never exist the same way anywhere else – these will be clearly marked as custom, made to order items with a long lead time. Some (but not all!) items do include a bit of a manufacturing process, and are therefore available to ship much sooner, and will be marked as “stocked” items. But they still retain the same unique rustic charm that is not commonly found in the worldwide marketplace.

Before You Buy!

Always, measure, measure, measure your room. And then measure again. These kinds of items are not returnable! The golden rule is that there should be at least 42-48 inches of space between the edge of the table and the walls or other furniture.  Also take into consideration how many people are going to dine at the table: usually each person needs 2 feet of space. An easy rule of thumb: A 6 foot rectangular table can sit 6 people. And 8 foot table can seat 8 people… and so forth.

As always, if you have any questions about space planning or custom orders – contact us!