Mahogany Dining Tables

Beautiful Mahogany Dining Tables to Make Your Dining Room Shine

For many, the dining room is the central attraction of their homes -- hence, the need for a dinner table that can leave an impression on your guests. Mahogany wood, with its sturdiness, its elegance and its warm glow when given a proper finish, is a natural choice for a dining room table. Here is some important information about the eBay listings for mahogany dining tables so that you can make the right selection.

Mahogany dining tables can differ from one another stylistically in a number of different ways. Here are just a few of the differences you're likely to see:

• Wood colour: Though all tables are made of mahogany, some are lighter, and some darker than others. What shade of wood you choose is a matter of taste.
• Shape: Large tables are almost universally rectangular, though some will have rounded rather than hard corners. As the tables become smaller, more oblate, oval-shaped, or even circular shapes become common. The very smallest tables are either circular or shaped like squares.
• Leg types: Tables made in an older style may have cabriole legs, while those built according to more contemporary fashions will have straighter and more rectilinear legs. Some tables won't have legs at their corners at all to make it easier to sit around them. Instead, they'll have one massive leg in the centre that expands outwardly into branches and gives the table a stable centre of gravity.

A standalone table, if it's rightly proportioned, beautifully built, and fits in with the rest of what's in your dining room can be a wonderful thing on its own. Quite often, though, eBay can offer you more than this. Many mahogany dining tables will come as part of a larger dining set. Usually, a group of chairs constitutes the rest of the set. The chairs will also be made of mahogany and can be upholstered in any of various ways. How many chairs you'll get depends on how large the table is. In some cases, you may even find stools or footstools sold with the tables, but this is usually only true for much smaller tables.

Since dining tables are obviously meant to seat dinner guests, the question of seating capacity is important. Thankfully, eBay offers a large variety of beautiful mahogany dinner tables of all different sizes. Whether you merely need a small table to help you arrange a romantic and cosy dinner for two, or you need a massive dining table that seats up to 16 people for a party, eBay has something for you. The larger and higher-seating capacity tables often come with their own chairs included. The chairs, like the table, are made of mahogany. Generally speaking, however, the most common kinds of dinner table you'll see on the eBay listings are those that can seat either six or eight people.