You might be able to take care of the crowd you have invited for a huge dinner party, but your dining table can not. A too-small table means everybody is going to be scattered all over the living room, balancing plates precariously in their laps. You’ll have to serve finger food ; as it is, they will be placing their beverages glasses on the floor. This is not the elegant event you guessed, so it’s time to expand the table table by 2, together with as little fuss as possible.
Social Game: Musical Tables
Card tables are the classic solution to extending a dining table to seat a large crowd. Unfortunately, they are usually not the exact same height as the main table, and the disparity is wobbly, unstable and awkward for anyone seated at the join. Instead, swap the dining room to your living room. Prepare the dining room table as a large buffet. Push the living room furniture from your walls and collect a couple of card tables together to make a huge dining table. Or set up card tables restaurant-style to accommodate four guests apiece, but all at the exact same space. Clear the tables for dessert and have everybody switch tables to sit down with different guests.
Side-by-Side
Purchase or rent a folding table the same height and length as the rectangular dining table. Push the 2 tables together side, not end-to-end. You end up with a huge square table, all surfaces exactly the exact same height, that adapts seamlessly to your large group. Camouflage the gaps with one big tablecloth and place a decorative runner down the middle of the poles where they meet. Cross another runner over the first one, perpendicular to the first. Use the location where the runners cross for an elaborate centerpiece — a square table gives you room for one only beyond comfy arm reach. Ring the table with matching leased chairs or dining-height chairs from different rooms in the home, and you’re prepared for the hurry.
Twin Tables
If space is at a premium in your home but you amuse large groups often, choose your decor to adapt to your events. Matching square or rectangular tables reside at two distinct areas of the home or apartment in which they have a part; one is the dining room table, and the other one is the desk or a worktable in your kitchen, design or crafts room. When Large Dinner Party Date rolls around, fit those twin tables together in the exact same room to double the guest rooms. Cover the pushed-together tables with a thick pad and tablecloth so they appear like one big rectangular, or square, unit.
2 Plus 1 Equals a Bigger Table
When the annual holiday meal is at your residence, along with your normal dining table seats two or four, you don’t need a large piece of furniture hogging space all year. Strategize when you supply the living room, library or kids’ rooms. Purchase desks or end tables which fit in height and are at least 19 inches tall. For the feast, then pull the two pieces into the dining space, separate them to make the amount of the table you need to accommodate the crowd, and lay a single piece of 3/4-inch plywood, or even 2 broad planks, bolted together underneath, above the tables. Cover the new, makeshift table with a padded mat, floor-length tablecloth along with a fancy briefer tablecloth. Store the “extension” in the garage or another dry area where it won’t warp when not being used.