Dining Tables 4 Small Spaces

Ten years of searching and four tables later, I finally found what I was looking for. Plus, a short list of the best six dining tables for tinier spaces.

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I started fantasizing about a dining table—a REAL one, with room for more than just me and someone I was having coffee with—long before I moved into our Brooklyn Heights apartment (aka ATA HQ:). As a single person in my 20s/30s, I dreamed of a table where I could write or spread out all my tax receipts, have more than two friends over for a dinner party, maybe even a full-blown Thanksgiving meal…or play ping-pong on it:). You know, the things real people do with real dining tables. And anyone who has ever lived in a small/smallish/downright TEENY home and has searched (ie: LONGED for) such a thing knows that real dining tables were not designed for us.

Photograph by Graham Pollock. A peek at our new, extremely perfect dining table…designed with Noah Phillips of Foreign National. The Gia ottomon stool was covered by Stitch Room in my favorite Paul Smith Concorde Stripe by Maharam fabrics.

Small space dwellers—or more accurately, wildly resourceful folks who require adaptability/flexibility in most of their core things—have grown accustomed to compromising (even if based on stats relating carbon usage to home, we really shouldn’t have to). And, if you’re someone who’s spent a good chunk of your life searching for Home…conjuring it in sofa upgrades, sage bombs, and a never-ending collage-a-thon of Dream Boards, you know what I mean about finding not just a table but the right table. Especially now, when most of us have gotten used to doing just about EVERYTHING at our dining tables…all day/every day. Like your bed or that singular sofa again, finding the perfect dining table is akin to finding a GREAT bra (or God Help Us, health insurance). We shouldn’t have to settle for such a fundamental, life-giving thing.

And yet…