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Choosing The Right Dining Table

There is a wide variety of dining table options to choose from and to help you decide which option is best for you, we have identified below some of the different features/options available:

Table Tops

Spearhead recommend you always specify a High Pressure Laminate (HPL) top for your dining tables.

Unlike the cheaper wood veneer tops, the HPL tops are able to sustain hot mugs and food/drink spillages without marking the surface.

All Dining Tables & Coffee Tables from Spearhead come with a HPL top as standard.

Dimensions

Our table tops come circular or square between 700 and 1200mm in size, or rectangular between 1200 and 1800mm long by 750mm wide.

For a table to seat 4, we would recommend a minimum of 900mm square or round.

Leg Options

Spearhead offers four different leg options for our four-legged tables as follows:

Square – standard square leg design which is most cost effective option.

Tapered – introduced a more contemporary style.

Turned – carved/turned style of leg for more traditional settings.

Chunky – square but chunky style ideal for challenging behaviour environments.

Wheelchair Cut-outs

If you have a large number of residents who eat at the table in their wheelchair, and you prefer the four-legged table rather than the pedestal option, then we do offer the choice of wheelchair cut-outs under the table top.

 

Table Bases

Choose from either a four-legged option (most popular), pedestal base or skittle leg base. The skittle leg option is effectively a more elegant version of the pedestal base. A pedestal base/skittle leg style is good for wheelchair access, but something not seen to be as stable as a four-legged table.